Resumen
This article reports that in the future chips, displays and micromachines will be fabricated by printing. A new set of chemistries, printing technologies and new design tools will allow logic and micromachines to be fabricated in several seconds by direct printing without the use of photolithography. In addition the time required from design phase to actual fabrication might similarly be cut from several weeks to as short as minutes. The obvious implication is to be able to make logic vastly less expensively and in vastly larger quantities than what exists now. Another area of importance is volume of chips. In order to put an computer network protocol address on every product produced, one needs a means of manufacturing logic at this vast scale. Printing is a technology that allows trillions of impressions per year, a number commensurate with the number of packages and products produced. The key to invention is the iteration time through ideas. Surely, a version of this technology would allow an atom fabricator to fabricate the product using desktop fabrication.