Extensions of this technology can be achieved by stacking and embedding thin dies in polyimide, providing large benefits in electrical performance and still allowing some mechanical flexibility.
To make items such as candlesticks more cheaply than the London competition, the firm made many items out of thin, die-stamped sections, which were shaped and joined together.
Tong, a long-forgotten Big Brother contestant, has recently been in the headlines, having made comments on Twitter ostensibly encouraging anorexia: insisting, for instance, that women should "get thin or die trying", and that "hunger hurts but starving works".
If you don't feed or forget to feed your horse enough, it can get too thin and die.
In "Rainbow" we watch a spooky, sparrow-thin Garland die a slow, drug-addled death while puking, wheezing and staggering about the stage in her slip.
"There is a saying that inside every fat man is a thin man dying to get out," notes Michael Mandelbaum, the foreign policy expert at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely, before age 55, of illness or a self-inflicted injury.
Not only does obesity lead to increased rates of Type 2 diabetes, but a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine also found that the heaviest kids were nearly twice as likely as the thinnest to die before age 55.
Thin silicon dies are believed to improve the device performance as well as its reliability.
