The idea of using silicon fabrication technology for an implanted device was easy to come by, but the design of the release mechanism was hard.

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In terms of business models, ARM and Intel couldn't be more different. intel (INTC, 18) leverages its lead in semiconductor fabrication technology to manufacture the processors it designs.

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Coming late to memory-chip fabrication, they had more recent technology than Japan and South Korea.

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The Stanford design approach has two striking features in that it sacrifices virtually none of CNTs' energy efficiency and it is also compatible with existing fabrication methods and infrastructure, pushing the technology a significant step toward commercialization.

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One technology highlighted by NASA is solid freeform fabrication, a process that could be used to support fabrication and repair of large space structures, spacecraft primary structure and replacement components.

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Whereas creating a memory-chip industry is mostly a matter of buying fabrication equipment off the shelf, classier chips require lots of well-trained engineers, research and technology partners elsewhere in the computer industry.

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