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To: Duker who wrote (30603)	5/26/1999 9:11:00 AM
From: nnillionaire	Read Replies (1) of 70976

Nice press in IBD this morning: investors.com <excerpt> Copper Chips Paving The Way For Epic Battle Date: 5/26/99 Author: James DeTar Applied Materials Inc. is to chipmaking gear what Intel Corp. is to chips. Each dominates its market. Now, Applied is trying to pull further ahead of its rivals with gear used to make new copper chips. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Applied's sales hit $3.6 billion in 1998, nearly twice that of its nearest competitor, Tokyo Electron Ltd. of Japan. Applied spends more than $500 million a year on research and development, some of that on copper. Copper will make chips cheaper and more powerful, analysts say. To be ready for this new market, Applied last year opened its Equipment and Process Integration Center in Santa Clara, Calif. EPIC is headed by Tom St. Dennis, who recently spoke with Investor's Business Daily. IBD: What is EPIC? St. Dennis: It's a facility where our customers can come and literally test drive the most advanced systems from Applied on their (chip) wafers. It allows them to accelerate time to market for their advanced technologies. It reduces their risk because of the work we've done internally. And it reduces their cost because they have the ability to use the facility and get more information sooner on advanced products.

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