Sentences with phrase «making microcircuits»

By the end of this decade, many experts predict, the current method of making microcircuits — done by shining high - frequency light through stencil templates to etch connections onto a semiconductor chip — will have reached its physical limits, with individual elements bottoming out at something like one - fifth the size of today's best.

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Today, spacecraft are far more sophisticated and fragile, made of lightweight polysyllabic polymers and stuffed with microcircuits and light - years - beyond - Microsoft software.
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