An impressive progress in picosecond lasers over the last five years made them a reliable tool attractive to the industry. A range of new real-world microprocessing applications became possible only with their arrival. The picosecond pulse duration is comparable with the time of electron-phonon relaxation, and is short enough for “cold” ablation. An easy and effective conversion to UV opens new opportunities for adaptation to the material properties and process nature. The ablation threshold decreases as well, and lower pulse energy reduces mechanical and thermal stress on the workpiece. On the other hand, picosecond lasers have a number of advantages over the yet shorter (femtosecond) pulse ones. Without the need of pulse stretch and compression for amplification, picosecond lasers are less complicated in their design and thus more cost-effective and reliable, while their pulses are still sufficiently short for very precise and stress-less microprocessing. Picosecond laser micromachining workstation is capable to directly process a wide range of micron scale features in almost all materials, including: