Sierra Proto to add tech center.SUNNYVALE Sunnyvale, city (1990 pop. 117,229), Santa Clara co., W Calif., near San Francisco; settled 1849, inc. 1912. A city in Silicon Valley, its many manufactures include semiconductors; machinery and instruments; electrical, electronic, and aerospace products; , CA -- Sierra Proto Adj. 1. proto - indicating the first or earliest or original; "`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages" Express, a producer of quickturn printed wiring boards, will open a microelectronics microelectronics, branch of electronic technology devoted to the design and development of extremely small electronic devices that consume very little electric power. technology center this summer. The center will produce the company's current leading-edge technology--boards of 0.001" lines and spaces, with plans to reduce that to 0.0003" lines and spaces by year-end year-end also year·end n. The end of a year. adj. Occurring or done at the end of the year: a year-end audit. Noun 1. , company officials said. "We feel that we are now ready to introduce our microelectronics PCBs to the market," said Bob Tarzwell, Sierra director of technology. "After months of research we are now able to consistently produce boards with 0.001" lines and spaces. Six months from now, we expect to be at 0.0003" lines and spaces with 0.003" holes." In a statement, president and owner Ken Bahl said, "We feel very strongly about the future of microelectronic The miniaturization of electronic circuits. See chip. PCBs; so strongly that we are investing millions of dollars in a new technology center, which we plan to have fully operational this summer." Sierra produces bare boards for medical, security, defense and space applications. |
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