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To: Yousef who wrote (72734)	9/22/1999 5:46:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572332

Yousef, Since they use copper is the damascene process because it is more conductive than aliminium, can they similarly use gold in damascene? it has 6% better conductivity than copper and is more ductile. It is also more noble and harder to chemically strip and plate, which might make it impossible. Someone said that the speed went up as the square of the conductivity ratio, so gold would 1.06 x 1.06 times as fast as copper= 1.124 or 12.4% faster? Is this feasible. The cost of gold would be trivial at less than $1-2 per CPU(IME) Bill