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10-30-2007, 02:05 PM
On the heels of Intel's launch of an environmentally friendly new chip fabrication plant in Arizona, IBM is showing it, too, knows how to be green. The company announced a new silicon reclamation process that won a recent pollution prevention award. The new process uses a "specialized pattern removal technique" to salvage semiconductor wafers, the silicon disks used to create processors.

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