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Technology Stocks : Cymer (CYMI)

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To: BillyG who wrote (15468)3/6/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: Tulvio Durand  Read Replies (1) of 25960
 
It is a great pleasure to see Cymer stepping, albeit belatedly, into the limelight of the U.Texas/DPMI 0.8 micron optical lithography breakthrough. It's too bad it was not timed to coincide with the original announcement or made part of a joint announcement, for it would have gotten Cymer a lot more PR mileage. I see Cymer's ArF laser contribution not lesser than DPMI's, yet DPMI got all the (commercial) credit. Hopefully the PR firm recently hired by Cymer will be more attentive to PR opportunities in the future. Regarding the post optical lithography statement in the announcement, Bob Akins stated several times that Cymer is actively developing soft X-ray radiating sources as follow-on to the DUV lasers. These devices will be powered by electric discharge of a capacitor-like storage device, thereby obviating the need of the very expensive synchrotron that is used in other competing x-ray-lithography (XRL) developments. Cymer DUV lasers is indisputably the choice optical lithography source now and probably will remain so for the next ten years. Cymer's soft-XRL may well succeed Cymer's DUV lasers beyond year 2010 as the choice lithography source. Tulvio
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