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To: Tony Viola who wrote (31167)	6/25/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Respond to of 70976

>> How about IBM? They've been shipping System 390s built with 0.18 micron and copper interconnect since last month. >600 MHz overall machine clock frequency, too. Admittedly, these are low volume compared with Pentium class or DRAM volumes and I have no idea what IBM's yields are with that process.<< My point is that IBM announced they were "going into production" with this process two years ago. The fact that they're shipping products now doesn't say anything about how much pain and suffering went on behind the scenes to get there. IBM uses Novellus equipment for copper deposition. Or at least they did last summer when they announced a big technology licensing agreement with Novellus. >>Surprising to me that Intel came up with problems on their 0.18 PIII, named Coppermine. << Not surprising to me. This stuff is hard. Katherine