But whereas E-Ink and Gyricon require expensive custom-designed manufacturing facilities and new equipment to produce their displays, Ntera's technology is specifically suited for existing plant and equipment used by LCD manufacturers, which already dominate the electronic display market.

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An example is e-Chemicals, which brokers 55-gallon drums of manufacturing chemicals between suppliers like DuPont and those thousands of heavy manufacturers dotting the Rust Belt. n Connecting "wide-thin" markets.

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By using e-speak to provide information about the design and manufacturing of circuit boards, SpinCircuit says it has cut manufacturing cycles by two months for one of its clients.

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Wilcox laid off half of the company's senior-level employees and promoted middle managers with a strong grasp of E Ink's technology and the manufacturing process.

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If this (topdown) manufacturing process is to be based on the most modern forms of deposition (including epitaxy), e-beam or ultra-deep UV lithography and precision etching, the mainstay of microelectronics and optoelectronics fabrication, then there are strict limits described below for which one-off fabrication is possible, but manufacture is not.

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