That was probably insightful.. in physics it may and may not be that, just as in telecom, in order to raise awareness of your wares it helps (and doesn't help) to have a fuzzy animal mascot in many states..or not. or my comment is I wonder if these quantum mechanics guys get scared about what they can't see going on behind them. Enjoyed your concise observations.. thank you!

Great article, though one comment about the nomenclature...

It would be more correct to state the following about CVD:

"most common chip manufacturing process step"

instead of:

"most common chip wafer manufacturing method"

Sorry to be pedantic. Chip wafers are manufactured by slicing an ingot of electrical-grade silicon, not by CVD, and that's somewhat how it sounded.

One more point: the big thing quantum computing allows is for the factoring of cryptographic keys (RSA and ECC), and this has led to a movement towards post-quantum cryptography (i.e. cryptography that cannot be cracked by mapping it to a quantum computing algorithm). See http://pqcrypto.org/ for more info.

Cheers!

hummm, lets try that experiment shall we?
(i love cats please don't)

how about a mouse?