Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Chips Everywhere


Over the last 30 or so years,British entrepreneur Hermann Hauser has backed about 100 ideas,including three companies that have hit the billion-dollar mark.Plastic Logic,a Cambridge-based outfit launched six years ago,now seems to be shifting into high gear.Earlier this month it announced that it had raised $100 million to buld its first plan in Dresden,Germany.Its plan:to massproduce plastic semiconductors for the first time.If the venture is successful,it could undermine the dominance of the silicon chip that has become almost synonymous with high-tech revolution.

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