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Hampshire Instruments, based in Rochester, NY and with a local office in Marlborough, was founded in 1984 as a developer and supplier of X-ray lithography equipment for the semiconductor industry...
According to a Hampshire fact sheet, the company's research was aimed at developing an "X-ray stepper," a device designed to imprint features on integrated circuits...
...successful, the X-ray system would allow for the production of denser, more precise circuits than those produced with standard optical lithography technology, which uses ultraviolet light...
...X-ray lithography] is a technology that people don't expect to be widely used until the next century," said Charles F. Boucher, a senior industry analyst with San Jose-based Dataquest Inc., an international high-technology market research firm. "So they were working on a technology that didn't have any wide near-term application...
...successful, an investment in X-ray lithography could prove profitable in the distant future, Boucher said, adding that Hampshire, as an early venture into the development of the new technology, faced some inevitable stumbling blocks...