In the last few years, the biotech industry has set out to establish its own version of Moore's Law, shrinking the tools of the trade onto postage-stamp-sized "biochips." The hope is that the smaller/faster/cheaper approach that worked so well for computer-chip manufacturers will be a boon to biotech as well. The success of early biochip startups like Santa Clara, CA-based Affymetrix has helped to establish the field, and now giants from microelectronics and communications are moving in as well.

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