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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (83227)	6/10/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 186894

Intel commits to 300mm wafer, 0.13um, copper wiring process mercurycenter.com Excerpts follow: The core of Intel's announcement was that it would outfit a state-of-the art manufacturing plant in its Hillsboro, Ore., campus with 300 mm wafer technology. The upgrade will also include two other technological innovations: equipment to manufacture chips with more efficient copper wiring, rather than the standard aluminum, and equipment to etch smaller chips, using a 0.13 micron process. Compared with the current standard 200 mm wafers, manufacturers could make almost 2 1/2 times as many chips on a single wafer using the larger size. That alone would be enough to cut the cost of chip manufacturing by as much as 30 percent, proponents said.