Welcome to the debut of Chip Shots, www.micromagazine.com's Semiconductor, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnology Blog.

Some of you may have found this new blog through a search engine, others may have linked to it through our Website. However you arrived here, let me encourage you to continue checking us out in the days/weeks/months ahead as we take in the 30,000-foot and angstrom-level views of things chipheaded, silicon-based (or not), atomically scaled, and generally based in the realm of semiconductor manufacturing and its cousins in MEMS, displays, hard disk drives, and various emerging nanodevice technologies that will rock our world in the years to come. I'll weigh in on research, technologies, production challenges, business practices, personalities, and more with analysis, humor, and awe borne of many years observing the IC and associated micro/nanoelectronics industries.

I encourage you to comment on my posts and create an ebb and flow of discussion. A blog is only as good as its feedforward/feedback loop, so keep the chatter coming! We'll be toying with the design and content presentation as we start up, so please let us know what you think about the look and readability of the blog.

Thanks for your attention. Now on with the show!