[geeks] HIPPI switch on ebay

[Eric Dittman]

> > > > > I'll bet he doesn't have an FIB system, though.
> > > > 
> > > >   FIB system?  What's that?
> > > 
> > > Focus Ion Beam?
> > 
> > Very close.  Focused Ion Beam.  A device used for testing,
> > modification, and repair of wafers and ICs.  They are very
> > neat.  They are also very expensive.
> 
> Expensive meaning say to assume that DaveM has one, or expensive
> meaning that several nations would need to work together to afford one?

Expensive as in, unless you are making ICs or performing failure
analysis, you really couldn't justify the capital expense.  I
seem to remember they cost in the seven or eight digit range
(not counting any to the right of the decimal point).
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