Book - Fab 101
Discussion of what is required for the most advanced technology on Earth - Very Large Scale Integrated circuits - aka microchips.
- Air bearings. The ball bearing created the industrial age. The air bearing created the digital age
- Vessels - vacuum chambers pumped by air bearing-containing turbo pumps
- Sand and trace chemicals
- First integrated circuit in the 50s
- Technology requires in the 80s - Large Scale Integration
- Trace size limits and lithography
- Future directions - optical for speed (100x faster than electrons [1]), genetic for memory
- Size of facility and equipment needed
