Forefront
The money needed to play in the highest-performance space has forced everyone but IBM to the sidelines.
Once upon a time, there were many major computer makers in the world, and they developed and marketed expensive high end computational systems, spent a lot of money developing cool technology, and had impressive manufacturing operations.
The age-old technology is seeing new life in medical and other applications.
Old technologies never die; they just get new names. Flex circuits have been around for many years in the IC packaging business and have been called almost as many names. In the early days, it was tape automated bonding (TAB).
