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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Tito L. Nisperos Jr. who wrote (8347)10/1/1997 5:42:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel   of 70976
 
All, Article in which Pena says US equipment suppliers are not up to the challenge of next generation equipment. Intel is starting a consortium to create EUV tools and is choosing Nikon as their supplier.

<a href=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/971006/6intel.htm>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/971006/6intel.htm</a>

In case I cannot get the link to work, here's a little snippet:

Surprised by the sudden ferocity of the debate, Pe¤a says the administration's priority is to strengthen the $140 billion-a-year U.S. semiconductor industry, not to worry about the chain of suppliers to that industry, who have already been damaged by competition. "We lost the [equipment] market," Pe¤a says. "The bigger market is what Intel does."
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