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To: Ian@SI who wrote (23696)	12/1/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

Ian, FWIW, I agree with your your points and merely presented the article for full disclosure. BK

To: Ian@SI who wrote (23696)	12/1/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: ScotMcI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

I thought Akins talked about a longer life CYMI laser in the last conference call. How's my memory, Scott??? This is the only reference I could find in the last CC: And as a result, cost of operations continues to fall, now approaching $16,000 per billion pulses. In fact, key laser modules are performing to specification longer than expected in this aggressive production environment, and we have begun increasing our expected module lifetimes and warranties, and sharing these benefits with our customers.

To: Ian@SI who wrote (23696)	12/2/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: Rob-Chemist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

I think that Coherent is the greater threat to Cymer. They had a press release today stating that they have received multiple production orders for their 248 nm laser, along with some orders for the 195 (?) nm laser. There was no mention of the number of lasers, but the release also said they were rapidly increasing production rates. There is almost certainly some truth to the release, as opposed to it being primarily PR, since if a release of this type is untrue it is an invitation to being sued.