Ex-Seagate CEO joins startup Vertical Circuits, learns secret of the silver, gadget-shrinking ooze

Bill Watkins, the oft-outspoken former CEO of Seagate, has thrown his support behind tech startup Vertical Circuits, who claim to have an uncanny knack for shrinking gadgets with the power of voodoo -- or rather, a patented silver ooze, but we prefer our theories. The goo works as a replacement for gold wires to connect vertically stacked chips, cleaning up the internal cable clutter and leaving more room for better processor, bigger batteries, larger displays, or just a tinier form factor. Right now the focus is on stacking flash memory, but the group says they can use the same technique for processors and other chips. At this stage, there's no product or partnership to show for it, but if they're as good as they say, we hopefully won't have to wait long to see the fruits of their labor.

[kastonie Posted May 2nd 2009 10:15AM]

best picture ever.....

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 2:31PM]

I would've gone with Ivan Ooze from the Power Rangers
http://img.listal.com/image/460446/2000full-mighty-morphin-power-rangers:-the-movie-photo.jpg

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 10:24PM]

Power Rangers? No, engadget did the right thing here.

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 10:20AM]

gold wires..?

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 10:19AM]

tubular invention dude.

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 10:30AM]

Cowabunga!

[Zeth Ethereal Posted May 2nd 2009 10:42AM]

Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP!
GO GO GO
Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO; Go Ninja, Go ninja, GO!
Go Ninja, Go Ninja. GO; Go Ninja, Go ninja, GO!
GO GO GO GO

[spin cycle Posted May 2nd 2009 12:11PM]

I'm so much more a Spin That Wheel (Turtles Get Real) guy. On YouTube though, Vanilla Ice has received 200x as many hits. There's less for ya.

[spin cycle Posted May 2nd 2009 12:13PM]

Er, there's a lesson for ya I mean.

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 10:46AM]

...man, i LOVE being a turtle!...

[Greg F Posted May 2nd 2009 11:27AM]

Am I the only one, when first reading the article, that thought the ooze was something they sorta put the gadget into, shrinking it?

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 10:31PM]

Kinda like in Zelda? Throw in PowerBook out comes shrunk MacBook.

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 11:34AM]

Wanna find out the secret of MY ooze?

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 11:41AM]

no.

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 1:54PM]

its green isnt it? get that checked.

[(Unverified) Posted May 3rd 2009 5:05AM]

That's what she said.

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 10:25PM]

MARSHAK just won the internet.

[(Unverified) Posted May 4th 2009 9:53AM]

hi

[Mithinco Posted May 2nd 2009 11:56AM]

Dandelion!

[JFJB Posted May 2nd 2009 12:15PM]

Dear Endgaget,

Are we talking-reading-learning about technology here, or are we listening to primal eructations of animals in dire need for language understanding and verbal communication skills?

Perhaps the writer of the article has between his lines a je-ne-sais-quoi leading commentators to behave this way.

No, that is impossible.
I must have an aging problem and not recognize nowadays linguo.
Or maybe technology makes people babel, ogle, wiggle.

My take, of course, I may be wrong.
But I am getting as disappointed as with DonwloadSquad visitors.

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 1:00PM]

Dennis Miller?

[Oli D Posted May 2nd 2009 5:57PM]

wow your pretentious, cool!

[Valicore Posted May 3rd 2009 1:40AM]

Well that was a lot of time and effort expended to people that in your mind are worthless...

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 2:01PM]

Is it just me or does it look like the red one has a thing for the purple one the way he is staring at him with his mouth open?

[(Unverified) Posted May 2nd 2009 5:35PM]

Yea, you could use it for processors, but what about heat dissipation?

[Oli D Posted May 2nd 2009 5:56PM]

logical thing would be to have liquid cooling, if you have a silicon sandwich, you could have a heat pipe layer in between and pump a small amount of liquid through

[Oli D Posted May 2nd 2009 5:55PM]

I was pondering why mobo manufacturers havent already got into this sort of tech, then i realised

silicon + solder + markup = happy investors

[(Unverified) Posted May 3rd 2009 10:30AM]

One more time...what are their names? Quick!