The process developed by the team at North Dakota State University is known as Laser Enabled Advanced Packaging (Leap).

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The University of North Dakota and North Dakota State University came out the strongest in our list, in large part because the state is not running a deficit.

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But Fargo has North Dakota State University, a vendor of young brains employed by a large Microsoft division and by newer outfits, such as Alien Technology, an RFID chip leader.

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