Daniel P. Burbank is a Senior Engineer with Seagate Technology, a maker of computer disk drives, who holds numerous patents related to chips. He lives in Minneapolis and holds a Master of Science (MS) from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Articles by this Contributor Fall 1999 The Near Impossibility Of Making A Microchip Somebody had to invent machinery that could reliably and affordably lay down patterns with details as small as 80-millionths of an inch Read >>