The Japan Times Online: Chips with everything makes for a hi-tech mess secondary materials used in production [of microchips] total 630 times the mass of the final product. Compared with this, the researchers state that an automobile requires only about twice its weight in fossil fuels to produce -- i.e. 1,500-3,000 kg.

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