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Technology Stocks : Cymer (CYMI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ian@SI who wrote (23711)	12/2/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: Backfill	Respond to of 25960

Ian, It is very common for a company i.e., AMAT, ASML, ect... to have a contingency plan or a second source in case one supplier can not meet the needs of the customer. To qualify that second source you need to procure a sample of their product. Sometimes that sample is given to the customer and sometimes the customer pays for it. I have heard that the stepper companies were qualifying second laser sources (sometimes it is a requirement of the end user). I also know that copy exact is solidly in place in many of the large semi houses. To me that means CYMI until CYMI chooses to lose that business. Jeff...