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To: fyo who wrote (60882)	6/8/1999 5:17:00 AM
From: Jeff R	Read Replies (2) of 1573656

A Fab has to be designed from the start to be a Cu Fab. Cooper is an extreme contaminate to normal silicon processing. I was told that the Copper metalization process has to be specially isolated from the rest of the Fab equipment, etc. Dresden (Fab 30) may run some Al processing but Texas (Fab 25) will never run Cu. Every wonder why Intel downplays the roll of Cu and instead has concentrated on Low Kv dielectrics? They can't install Cu in any of their recently built Fabs because they don't have the setup. Intel will have to spend some of their 20 Billion in cash to build new Fabs. I'm sure that Intel's new 300mm facilities will all have Cu.

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