Who Will Foot the Bill?

I think Moore's Law can continue for a lot longer if there is a cheap way of accessing good quality vacuums. I thought the smaller chips get, the more important cleanliness becomes. The semiconductor industry is the life blood of the modern information economy. Most especially, network intensive and computing intensive tasks, such as large scale design and communication become increasingly difficult if the average person cannot affort computers or cell phones, which will happen if the cost of producing new semiconductors rises. The key to solving part of the cost problem has to do with creating clean spaces cheaply. Has anyone done any work on trying to cheaply create high quality vacuums?

The best quality vacuum exists for free, five hundred miles up from any location on Earth. Space offers a vacuum a thousand times better than the best vacuum produced on Earth. This clean environment would be an excellent place to manufacture semiconductors because the contamination problem becomes much reduced. This blog talks about the benefits semiconductor companies would get if they shifted their wafer fabrication into orbit. www.horizons-s414.blogspot.com