Arthur Hanson
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Labs on a chip present a very large opportunity for the semi/nanotech sector to extract significant value from current IP and develop entirely new markets there by lowing costs for all chips by spreading costs further. Below is but one example and there are many more out there and more coming all the time. It isn't hard to see inexpensive single use chips that are a combination of MEMS and electronics becoming a major game changer in everything from medical, testing, research with dramatically lower costs with less danger by radically shrinking labs. This is still a green field area with many avenues to explore and potentially huge world wide markets. It isn't hard to see this trend accelerating over just the next few years and below is but one of many examples currently being developed.
It isn't hard to see labs on a chip become the ultimate game changer just like electronic chips have changed our world. Just in wearables they could cause a medical and environmental interface revolution augmenting greatly the electronics revolution. The ability to dramatically lower costs just like electronics have will open more fields and revenue streams than most can even imagine. Lowering the cost of research dramatically at an ever accelerating rate in ever more areas is literally going to change the structure of education and research in numerous areas and this is just the beginning of an industry that will generate not billions, but trillions in economic activity world wide in the future. It will also allow custom products on a scale once thought unimaginable. This is a staggering opportunity for all levels of the tech sector from production equipment suppliers on one end to platform builders on the other end and all in between. Imagination will be the only limit.
With Apple going into medical, this will enable them to change the face of medical in wearables as they have started to do and expand this area into home medical testing which presents an opportunity in the tens of billions and will receive a major push by insurance and government when the first few devices prove their worth. Apple needs the diversity out of hardware and doesn't want to compete with Microsoft or Amazon in services and medical offers a market of literally staggering size that has a desperate to be brought into the modern age and Apple has the tools, resources and above all the political clout to pull it off. Since the iPhone will provide the processing power and platform all that is needed is the devices. This is one of the few areas with enough potential to move the needle for both Apple and TSM, along with insurers, if all these parties aren't seriously working on this and even collaborating, I would be surprised, for the opportunities and rewards are far to large.
Comments and additions by anyone working in this area would be appreciated.
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It isn't hard to see labs on a chip become the ultimate game changer just like electronic chips have changed our world. Just in wearables they could cause a medical and environmental interface revolution augmenting greatly the electronics revolution. The ability to dramatically lower costs just like electronics have will open more fields and revenue streams than most can even imagine. Lowering the cost of research dramatically at an ever accelerating rate in ever more areas is literally going to change the structure of education and research in numerous areas and this is just the beginning of an industry that will generate not billions, but trillions in economic activity world wide in the future. It will also allow custom products on a scale once thought unimaginable. This is a staggering opportunity for all levels of the tech sector from production equipment suppliers on one end to platform builders on the other end and all in between. Imagination will be the only limit.
With Apple going into medical, this will enable them to change the face of medical in wearables as they have started to do and expand this area into home medical testing which presents an opportunity in the tens of billions and will receive a major push by insurance and government when the first few devices prove their worth. Apple needs the diversity out of hardware and doesn't want to compete with Microsoft or Amazon in services and medical offers a market of literally staggering size that has a desperate to be brought into the modern age and Apple has the tools, resources and above all the political clout to pull it off. Since the iPhone will provide the processing power and platform all that is needed is the devices. This is one of the few areas with enough potential to move the needle for both Apple and TSM, along with insurers, if all these parties aren't seriously working on this and even collaborating, I would be surprised, for the opportunities and rewards are far to large.
Comments and additions by anyone working in this area would be appreciated.
Body-on-Chip system mimics the behavior of 10 connected organs
The development and eventual approval of modern drugs is hugely reliant on animal models and human clinical trials, but for some time now scientists have been working on an alternative and more expedient approach. By recreating the functions of various organs on small devices known as Organ Chips…
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