Early retirement deals are never a good answer to solve high unemployment of younger folks.
Well, in my case that wasn't negotiable. I explained the reasons behind it and they understood.
Huh? He built a successful business that provides good income for scores of families. Just because you don't understand an idea does not make it silly.
Sure, we had that as well.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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any kind of direct write. I spent a couple of years in the mid-1980's work ing on a "shaped-beam" electron beam microfabricator (which would have work ed, but was going to cost more to get working than we could afford to inves t)..
Labs shaped beam system, and used it to produce smallish batches of custom integrated circuits, but the Bell Labs machine was a factor of ten slower t han Bell Labs had promised, and couldn't be made to write fast enough to ma ke a profit.
ross the whole wafer?
You are saying the mask still covers the die, but the illumination is now t oo small to expose the entire die at once, so the wafer and mask are moved under the illumination beam?
Rick C.
I found the complete contrary. Trump's election had no negative impact on project volume. The tax reform had a big positive effect.
Income taxes, among other things.
More money in the pockets of regular wage earners, that's what it means to most. For others it means jobs because companies are hiring more than usual again.
Also, have you not noticed that the standard deuction was doubled?
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Yes. I'm not sure what magnification ratio the latest ones run at--BITD it was 4X and then 1X, but in any event they move differently.
It's not so much the illumination spot that's too small, it's that you can't make optics with good enough resolution over a wide field. A
20-mm square processor chip with 14 nm features needs 15 million resolvable spots in each dimension.Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net https://hobbs-eo.com
Too late. IIRC they were all snapped up within less than three days.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
I also suspect that stepping creates mechanical shocks and vibration that would wreck nm resolution. It wastes time, too.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Didn't France or somebody try forcing older people to retire to create more jobs for young people?
That was standard socialist thinking, totally whacko. That's treating jobs like consumables, ignoring the basic concepts of productivity.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
I noticed that you aren't very good at understanding tax regulations. The standard deduction was raised, but most of that raise came from eliminating the personal exemption for the filer. So instead of raising from $6000 to $12000 for the standard deduction, it was the combined standard deduction plus personal exemption of $10,000 increasing to $12,000... a MUCH smaller difference.
I believe your work sees a very tiny portion of the economy. I don't recal l reading of any significant upswings in the overall economy or any other t rend that wasn't apparent before Trump took office. Before he took office unemployment dropped from a peak of 9.9% to the lowest level since 2000 and now continues down below the "natural" rate. This has led to inflation st arting to rise which is the problem the fed is paying attention to in place of employment these days.
The tax changes were not about putting a small amount of money in low end t ax payer's pockets for a few years. It was about subsidizing the rich with large, permanent tax breaks. So far the tax changes haven't had much impa ct, but inflation is the main concern.
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I'm not clear on the nature of your distinction. The field you are address ing is the field of illumination of the image. I didn't say anything about the cause of the limitation.
Rick C.
In the olden days they financed that the usual way, by printing money. Now that they are in the Euro with Germany and some other countries with less profligate spending that has become a problem. I think Macron wants a "mild budget equalization" between countries and we all know what that means. I hope Merkel and the others remain opposed. Though I am not living there anymore and it would be other people's problem.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
The standard deduction 2017 was $6350. The personal exemption was $4050. That comes to $10400. With tax reform it would have been $12700 plus $0, meaning $12700. This results in $2300 _less_ in taxable income.
Sure it does. I see first hand when companies start new designs because, unlike with coders and others, for stuff that contains analog they need the required talent from day one.
The labor force participation rate drops substatially. That is the rate Obama let get out of control, and to some extent will remain out of control due to Obamacare. It now mostly affects the "voluntarily underemployed" because of the Obamacare cliff and Medicaid freeloaders which is a really daft part of that law.
Nonsense. I has resulted in a hiring spree and in terms of consulting work it's like some flood gate opened.
That's a concern I share with you. In this context the only one though. Inflation almost naturally becomes an issue when near full employment is reached.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
I'm not sure what the point of your math is. You said the standard deducti on doubled and while that is technically correct I explained (with rounded numbers) how that is not an accurate image of the change in the standard de duction. Are you trying to say that $300 is a big factor???
You see first hand when a *small* number of companies start new designs.
All of which is unsubstantiated clap trap.
Again, you can't tell the difference in the world and your tiny piece of it .
I didn't say it was *my* concern. It is the concern of the economists in c harge of attempting to manage the US economy. Higher inflation is not an i nevitable result of "full" employment. It is trying to stimulate the econo my beyond a given level that results in inflation. If you check the data y ou will find most of Clinton's time in office the economy was sound with a reasonable growth rate, low unemployment and inflation. Obviously it is po ssible. There can be circumstances beyond the government's control, but th at is not often the case. Usually it is a failure to grasp an understandin g of the economy and doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. I'm pretty s ure we will be seeing the result of that in the next couple of years.
Rick C.
$300 isn't but $2300 is.
I am not the only guy in that field and we network. They are now pretty much booked out for the whole year and then some. I can't remember that being the case before, ever.
Because you do not understand it? Educate yourself on what happens when people reach the 400% FPL limit. Sneak preview: You earn one Dollar more than 400% FPL and consequently get socked with thousands in premium re-payment. I know people who called this "clap trap" and blissfully ran into that snag while othrs who understood it successfully navigated it. Usually by working less. Or much less. How can that be good for our country?
Some of us work in a variety of worlds, not just at one company or in one end user market.
We will for sure see an overheating but I believe that will affect stock investors more than anyone else. Inflation will likely come slowly, else
10-year Treasurys wouldn't be at 3% yield anymore.-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
It would be more efficient to let the older people keep working and pay the kids to not work. You wouldn't have to pay them much.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Not much? Today's kids? "My smart phone is already 6 months old, I need a new one!". Then they need a car. After crashing it they need another car and some way to come up with the $3k/year the insurance now costs, and so on. Oh, and that $800 game console is 4 months old and thus now hopelessly ancient.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Hi Joerg, I didn't vote for T, but I do think he doesn't get enough credit for his 'craziness'. (I read a nice piece by D. Brooks of all people today.)
Beside tax cuts there was a big spending boost. I know local defense contractors are looking for workers. Which certainly helps short term.
George H.
And it is far from doubling the standard exemption. You *do* see that, right? Your original statement was misleading at the least and just plain wrong in any meaningful way.
Oh, so now this is *two* data points! I don't understand why this isn't showing up in any of the national statistics!!???
Not an issue of understanding... it's just a line of reasoning that makes you feel good, so you believe it. There are no facts to substantiate the cause and effect.
And some of us believe the data that is collected across the country, not just the tiny portion of that data that enters their own world.
Perhaps you should share your observations with the fed? I'm sure they will like to have your insight. The only thing you can say about a 10 year T-bill is the interest rate it will pay when you cash it at maturity.
Rick C.
I don't think that anybody was prepared to wait for a "good answer" back then.
You had the clout to make the choice. Personnel departments understand very little, but they can mostly be cowed.
Lots of silly ideas make good incomes for scores of families. I'm not arguing with John Larkin's business model, but I do suspect that he could have done better if he had had fewer silly ideas.
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Translation of any sort creates some vibration. If you can track it with yo ur laser-interferometer-based wafer tracking system it won't wreck resoluti on.
The problem with step and repeat is the time lost making the steps.
The smaller the image field, the worse the loss of time.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Yeah, there's no chance a tax cut combined with increased government spending will result in inflation. Oh wait, that means they will need to borrow more money, but that won't cause a rise in interest rates either... No, not at all.
Rick C.
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