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To: Pancho Villa who wrote (33255)	9/30/1997 1:49:00 PM
From: Boplicity	of 186894

Motorola unveils new chip technology AUSTIN, Texas, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Motorola Inc on Tuesday said it had developed a technique that replaces aluminum wiring with copper interconnects in integrated circuits, resulting in smaller and faster chips. The announcement comes just a week after International Business Machines (IBM) said it had developed a way to wire computer chips with copper instead of aluminum. That move was widely seen as putting IBM at the forefront of efforts to design the next generation of semiconductors and helped boost IBM's stock price by more than five points to 104-5/16 the day the news was released. At the time, analysts said other chip makers would be quick to announce similar processes. ``Copper-based chips will be a key building block for our customers' success in the future, providing new product and market opportunities,'' Motorola said. Called a dual-inlaid metallization technique, the process takes advantage of copper's higher conductivity than aluminum to provide smaller, thinner interconnects. Copper also has greater resistance to electro-migration. ``This will provide the paradigm shift needed to get beyond the technology limitations we are reaching with aluminum,'' the company added. Production of the new product is planned to begin in September 1998.

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