Home > Nanotechnology: small science, big deal > Gadgets and gizmos > Rewiring your laptop > Hot chips A computer chip is made by etching patterns with hot gas and lasers and it is quite a clumsy process. If we want to make smaller chips we will need to do something different. Lifting the lid Page 2 of 7 Tiny tubes of carbon back to: Gadgets and gizmos   Lithography machine to etch computer chips. Image: Leica     Image: Veeco Instruments Inc.

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