RE: Take out offer? Maybe.This is from an article in yesterday's Spokane Journal of Business
Honeywell Beefing Up Here
Company expects to add about 60 jobs locally..
>>Honeywell makes a range of materials at its Spokane Valley and Cheney plants that its customers, such as Intel, Motorola, IBM, and Samsung, use to make semiconductors.
Some of the materials produced in the Spokane-area plants are used in ever-smaller and thinner “connective” and “resistive” layers in integrated circuits. Others, called thermal interface materials, are designed specifically to dissipate the substantial heat created collectively by the huge number of resistors on each chip.
As microprocessors steadily have become smaller and faster, Eckhardt says, the need for better electricity-conducting and heat-dissipating materials has spawned a whole new generation of technology.
Among the changes has been an emerging transition toward the use of copper and a relatively rare substance called tantalum, mined only in the Congo and Australia, in place of aluminum and titanium in semiconductors because of superior conductive qualities, he says.>>