Mr. John Mardinly of Intel Corporation, former president of NCSM, gave the Physical Science Presentation at the December 7, 1995, NCSM meeting held in Albany. CA. “Applications of Microscopy in the Microelectronics Industry” was the speaker's topic. Mr. Mardinly began by giving some background on integrated circuits. He had wafers to show as examples while stating that the value of each one exceeds $100,000 at S500 per chip and there are numerous chips on each wafer. The individual chip he showed had 3.1 million transistors, with 237 pins and 237 connections per device. The new Pentium Pro will have a mind-boggling 5.5 million transistors packed onto the same size chip.