Company spokesmen said it could lead to important advances in microchip design and new applications for lasers.

Users will simply download microchip designs from the Internet and print out a working ink-based, plastic processor on a desktop fabrication machine, similar to an ink jet printer.

But last month, Intel and I.B.M. announced innovations in microchip design, both of which promise to make Moore's law obsolete, speeding up the computer industry even further.

In 2003, he announced a breakthrough in microchip design and China who is anxious to develop indigenous hi-tech industry, greeted the news with great delight.

We talked about Intel's approach to microchip design in our Tick-Tock show.

Assura RCX, a parasitics extraction tool intended for microchip design.

He has worked in the area of digital integrated microchip design for over four decades.

All internal microchip design.

The method could eliminate the traditional grid pattern known as "Manhattan routing" that has dominated microchip design for years.

The company has become known for producing inexpensive multi-effects and is building its products around its own microchip designs.