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Mems, just starting to take off

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Arthur Hanson

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I feel we have just entered the beginning of a dramatic acceleration in the growth of the mems business. Medical will be the biggest growth field, with many others to follow. This should lower the cost and size of everything dramatically. It will do to the physical world, what semis have done to the electronic world. From here on the growth will be geometric rather than linear. It will shrink many physical devices as much as semis shrunk discrete components. In this area the only limits will be our imagination. It will shrink things just like an IBM 360 which took up a whole room now fits on a very small, inexpensive chip. Any thoughts or comments welcome.

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