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To: Scumbria who wrote (92006)	2/8/2000 1:25:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575627

Scumbria - <The advantage of copper is independent of transistor properties. However, at 0.13u, copper is essential to keep gate delays and wire delays in balance.> Circuits at .13 will become increasingly RC dominated. The next frontier after Copper interconnect will be Low-k (k<3.0) dielectric, another technology that was predicted to be in wide spread use by now, but has experienced numerous problems wrt integrating the materials into a viable production processes across the industry. PB