From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Jim@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: USSR IC production
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1924
Posted: Sun Jun 27 14:25:40 1982
Received: Tue Jun 29 04:33:56 1982


You are probably correct in saying that such copying of US ICs is
an expensive process.  However, it should also be a buggy one -
ie you are working with a copying technique (using photos as a guide)
that would seem to decrease yeild sharply.  This is important in
military applications, since reliability is an extremely important
goal.

Jim

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