His father is the president of Aisling Industries, which makes microchips for cellphone companies.
It's not useful, except in minute quantities for making microchips.
The unit is a world leader in the highly fragmented business of making microchips that control the operations of motors and other machinery.
It also is not making microchips.
It can work over larger surfaces than photolithography, which is widely used to make microchips.
This has changed, now many people work in electronics, such as making computers, phones and microchips.
The company is also expanding and announced in August that it planned to build a $1 billion manufacturing plant to make next-generation microchips.
But the Japanese have decided that anything with the slightest chance of helping to make better microchips deserves a close look.
"There is nothing in the soil or air that makes it ideal to make microchips here," he said.
In an age when others are making microchips, you are making potato chips.