RE: Another tid bit for hungry minds All of the R&D work that they do at the UConn lab have been in large scale because it is just much easier to see and test and modify at large scale...1000 nanometer or 1 micron. The amazing thing about what they have produced at this scale is that the speed and efficiency of the devices are extremely superior even at that level to the mature silicon CMOS devices after many years of reducing the feature size in that technology. So the move to purchase this equipment at this time is just another indication that the R&D is behind them and they are now working towards scaling at the UConn lab rather than just R&D. Shepherd tends to refer to that facility as the UConn fab.