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Weiter geht`s mit finnegans Berichten: http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=NPCT&rea… From Dr. Wernle`s introduction: He mentioned a few things we (on RB) already knew. So I keep this short and quote only the things which were new to me: - The cleanroom will be put in operation within one or two weeks. - He is very happy about the progress the company made and that it is time to reap the fruits of their work NOW (!). "We have a product now and we can start selling it. And we have a machine for NCS now." - He is well aware of the fact investors are waiting for customers. "There was the technology, then a man with a vision, then the team, then we had to find the markets and building our network of partners. The Nanopierce house is almost complete, just the roof, the customers are not there yet. But we will put the roof on it and move in very soon, this is for sure." - The market for NCS is growing every day. One new technology is the fingerprint identification system from Infineon (again *smile*). "They have already developed it. It has to be connected somehow, too." - The "waferpiercing service" will be available to customers at the beginning of 2002 (Dr. Wernle prefers the term "waferpiercing service" rather than "production", but I think we all know what is meant). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=NPCT&rea… Mr. Völler / Fraunhofer Institute. Mr. Völler spoke about Flip Chip technology in general, so I won`t quote him that much, but he mentioned some interesting points: "Flip Chip technology is not a choice, but a necessity for size and weight reasons. " "Wirebonding will be a thing of the past very soon and our partner Nanopierce`s technology will contribute to that." "The shorter the wires are the higher are the frequencies you can achieve. Todays chips with frequencies of a GHz and above would be impossible to manufacture without Flip Chip technology. A technology which eliminates todays disadvantages in FlipChipping is very much needed. NCS is such a technology." Mr. Tiedmann (Schreiner Etiketten) This was fascinating! The overall impression: This market yet has to be created but it will be HUGE. Desperately needed are technologies like NCS which can reduce the manufacturing costs. Today`s manufacturing costs for SmartLabels are somewhere around $0.80 to $1.00. While this is extremely high, they are already in use for high priced products like fashionable clothes etc. I will quote a few ideas of Schreiner Etiketten later in detail. I was amazed - I knew this thing will be big but I have not been aware in how many fields you can use SmartLabels. Nanopierce will produce the inlays for the SmartLabels and Schreiner Etiketten will use them for their labels. I talked to Mr. Tiedmann later and learned the following: As always, manufacturing costs will decrease along with the increase of the number of Labels produced. NOT a problem to find a market. Delta Airlines alone has use for 7.5 million baggage checkings per month. While a barcode label only costs $0.01 to $0.02 and a SmartLabel is much more expensive, they will use it because it reduces the time you need to check the baggage, the number of errors and will dramatically improve the security level. Asked at which price Airlines will consider using SmartLabels, he said "15 cents is for sure a price which would make them potential customers." NCS technology can push the price way down below 15 cents (I asked twice, he confirmed twice). The same is true for companies like FedEx and UPS. They are in need of 5 million labels PER DAY. So, Mr. Tiedmann said, "the only problem is there are not enough chips and machines in the whole world yet to produce all these labels" (well, I could live with that...) >>>>>> Dran bleiben, gleich kommt noch mehr Hold NPCT and prosper Jetsia |
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| aus der Diskussion: | NPCT Nanopierce Technologies WKN 916132 Thread V |
| Autor (Datum des Eintrages): | jetsia dax (20.09.01 21:13:34) |
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