High tech chip industry just beginning to show promise for jobs falls victim of

[CK_John]

Cyber-era research. New type/faster smaller cheaper to mass produce by any old shop soon to hit the market place. Bye, bye good jobs.

http://www.designntrend.com/articles/8219/20130929/first-bizarre-3mm-chip-revolutionize-time-spac-ten-times-faster.htm

[IDemo]

1. Please explain

Are you saying that the technology in the article relates in any way to chips such as processors, DRAM and flash memory?

[CK_John]

2. Yes they will be replaced.

[IDemo]

3. I don't think you understand microchips, sorry

I work in the industry. The items in the article pertain to the acceleration of electrons for applications related to particle research. They in no way are applicable to the highly specialized circuitry found on logic and memory IC's. Any jobs that these might eventually replace would be those related to the engineering and construction of particle accelerators or "colliders", and I wouldn't be hurrying to update my resume immediately if I worked in that industry based on this story.

[CK_John]

6. The secret to glass etched circuits by lasers is out of the bag and

will be quickly transfered to consumer products.

[IDemo]

8. Again, you clearly have zero knowledge of the technology or the industry

There are more things in the pipeline to come that will increase memory density and performance, but I hardly think Intel, Samsung, Micron and others are quivering in their fab booties over this.

[CK_John]

10. The corp will be planning which plants to close and how many workers to dump.

[IDemo]

11. There are jobs in danger within the industry

Almost entirely from moving the manufacturing to massive fabs in Singapore and elsewhere where costs are much lower.

Your concern seems to be entirely based upon the supposition that a chip is a chip is a chip, with no idea how a memory cell is structured or how it would be built using the above tech. If it were deemed to have that potential, I'm sure that would have been the focus of the article or at least a note of interest.

But I'll clean out my desk tomorrow morning and take a look at jobs.com just to be safe.

[CK_John]

13. I heard the same refrain about vacuum tubes back in the 60's.

[jsr]

9. What? Look at your beer mug.

It's laser etched.

[steve2470]

4. "This webpage has a redirect loop", will clear my Opera browser cookies as instructed nt

[steve2470]

7. same problem, cleared all cookies, restarted browser.....

[steve2470]

12. Opera Dev problem, works with IE fwiw nt

[jsr]

5. The electrons in the demo came from... a SLAC accelerator.

This chip is not going to replace an accelerator anytime soon.