The emerging new technologies in the electronics industry are cutting down the production costs to a great extent but can you even imagine how low will be the production cost for a plastic microchip?
Well, a British firm named Plastic Logic has become the world’s first to showcase a prototype of a plastic microchip. Sensing the lower production costs associated with the manufacturing of plastic microchips, many global leaders including Lucent Technologies, Hitachi, Philips, Samsung etc. have been investing a lot in similar technologies.
Plastic electronics could revolutionize the way electronics and computer industry is emerging. The implementation of the plastic microchips in electronics gizmos will lead to notable cut in the product pricing. Another probable use of these plastic microchips could be made in non-conventional products like clothing too.
These plastic microchips will certainly lead to a huge decline in the prices of cell phones, computers, televisions and many other gadgets. Let’s see when this prototype of the plastic microchip gets the real contour. They might spell the end of silicon microchips.
Via: Coolest-gadgets
