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Technology Stocks : JMAR Technologies(JMAR)

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To: Richaaard who wrote (6488)9/2/1998 4:42:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man  Read Replies (2) of 9695
 
Richaaard,

Perhaps JMAR is not the company who can bring the XRL
tool to the general semiconductor manufacturer doing
ASIC/ULSI with small gates, etc., that is the target end
user for DARPA. But they are taking what I think is the
best approach to do so: laser powered target. The IBM
solution is suitable only for IBM scale fabrication. The
only other competing source is the pinch plasma and I think
it is less attractive. But the missing piece of technology
right now is really the collimator, and only JMAR is funded
to do the R&D for that as well as the final system integration.

If XRL fails, JMAR does not necessarily. It is one R&D line
of exploration. However, if JMAR fails implementing XRL, then
it will definitely delay XRL as a small house production tool,
and might mean it remains confined to places like IBM. We
shall see.

In any case, noone should be investing in JMAR based on XRL
alone. The other lines of business are currently generating
operating income, and success in running them at greater
profitability is the measure of both short term value, but
also long term in being able to garner earnings out of XRL
if it ultimately moves from R&D into manufacture.

JMO
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