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To: fred whitridge who wrote (4281)	12/4/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: Ray	Respond to of 8393

Fred, news about the vertical transistor state-of-the-art is also covered in the 29 Nov Issue of EE times: eet.com Two other next generation transistors (major use in perhaps 10 years) are also reviewed in this article. IBM is working with 0.05 micron design rules for, I assume , a more normal construction, and Hitachi is working on a "fin" structure transistor for the sub-micron regime. Since OUM memory elements are only limited by chip fabrication techniques, I assume these developments are good news for us -- OUM could probably be built with the new transistors, while other memory elements might not be miniaturizable enough. However, I think it will take a Tyler Lowery level person to make reasonably reliable predictions about this.