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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (35192)7/29/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: FJB  Read Replies (1) of 1572960
 
Pravin,

RE: Let's face it, both copper and low K are important, but switching to copper is a larger technical challenge.

This article implies low K is not a cakewalk either.

"I don't think low-k dielectric has matured as much as copper metalization," says Craig Schuckert, product manager at HD MicroSystems. HD MicroSystems is the Wilmington, Del.-based joint venture of Hitachi Chemical and Du Pont Electronics. "It(copper) is one material that has a lot of knowns," says Mr. Schuckert. By contrast, he added that multiple dielectric materials are being worked on today.

"In reality, we thought people would start with low k and move to copper, but copper has turned out to be much easier to integrate and so people are going to move to copper and then integrate low k," says Mr. Monnig.
sumnet.com

Bob
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