The highqualitySOI (silicon on insulator) materialswere prepared with highlyselectiveand self-stopping full isolation by porousoxidizedsilicon (FIPOS) technology.
The time when engineers can work on arbitrary user-facing ideas in nearly fullisolation from the top, and still hope to be hugely successful, is now largely gone.
But it takes some explanation beyond the usual bruises of political life to account for the full extent of Mr Mandelson's isolation within his own party and the venom he arouses.