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To: Dan3 who wrote (94841)	2/24/2000 10:39:00 AM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Respond to of 1572336

>>Do you consider it likely that sensitivity to pressure variations (or other issues) would make moving to 300mm wafers more difficult with copper than Aluminum?<< I'm not sure I understand the question. Yes, copper CMP is difficult, but 0.18 micron design rules are more difficult than 2 micron design rules. You do what you have to do to compete. If you're a high performance microprocessor vendor in a price war, copper + 300 mm is really the only alternative. Katherine