>>Place your bets on the next generation of exposure tools:
It's Saturday night, I've been drinking, and so I'll play. SVGL gets an edge on optics because of the Tinsley purchase and, with Cymer lasers, drives DUV all the way to .10um, cutting into Nikon's market share. ASM also takes a little more of the market. Congress kills the EUV LLC because of Japanese involvement. Coherent builds a 193nm laser and becomes locked in a death struggle with Cymer.
In two years, UTEK or ETEC finds an elegant solution to e-beam masking problems, the guys at Lucent have something up their sleeves with throughput, and e-beam becomes the industry standard starting at .1um. Lucent buys UTEK which is struggling because of losses on P-GILD. JMAR goes bankrupt and both XRL and EUV go the way of the Edsel, Betamax, 3D movies and the smokeless cigarette. Motley Fool faces total disgrace when Amazon.com files Chapter 11, and Carl Johnson buys out MF. Steve Case's presidential bid is cut short when he is found in a hotel room with a transvestite. Oprah has a trans-sexual operation and Hillary Clinton joins her show as the female half.
Oops, seem to have gotten away from chip litho. |
