The free market decided his success and not multi national layers of governing and controlling agencies.

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"We've looked at multi-layers already, " he says.

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Since they are built on to a flat wafer, rather than etched out of it, layers of vertical transistors could even be constructed on top of one another, raising the intriguing possibility of multi-storey semiconductors.

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