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To: Xpiderman who wrote (1681)	12/10/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: Artslaw	Read Replies (1) of 3813

I can comment on it: they did say that! I attended the conference. Their response wasn't really a surprise though, since all semiconductor companies develop the next few technologies ahead of time, so the upcoming process was being developed well before copper was really a viable issue. To compensate for the higher Al resistance, they just increased the aspect ratio, making the lines taller (sort of like making them wider, and then turning them 90 degrees). This probably takes care of the electromigration issues as well. A much funnier part of their paper is where they discussed the drive current of their transistors as being better than any other previously published work, including (specifically) SOI (i.e. IBM). So, with one paper, Intel dismissed all of IBM's (and Motorola, to a lesser extent) press releases for the last six months. Intel is a little more low-key about their technology than IBM. Normally I'd say this is a good thing, but all that crowing by IBM didn't hurt their stock nor their perceived (and apparently undeserved) technical prowess. Steve

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