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From: brando@linus.UUCP (T. J. Brando)
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Subject: Re: alternative to current circuit board technology
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 13:06:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 13:06:09 1985
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In <9869@brl-tgr.ARPA>, CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> [ from the Austin American Statesman, April 9, 1985 ]
> 
>         CIRCUIT BOARD UPDATE SHOWN
>  
> MOSAIC SYSTEMS Inc, said Monday it has developed a small alternative to the
> conventional circuit board on which computer chips are mounted.  Mosaic's
> process uses microscopic current conductors deposited on a wafer rather
> than using wires to link chips together.  "This long-awaited development
> can make it possible to build much smaller, faster and more powerful
> computers and to manufacture them at a lower cost," said Robert Johnson,
> president of Mosaic Systems, which is based in Troy, Michigan.
> 
> [ does anyone know what is being described here?  Certainly, linking chips
> together using wires doesn't sound like current methods.  ---Werner        ]

I believe he was referring to WAFER-SCALE INTEGRATION.

-- 
Thom Brando
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