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To: tejek who wrote (113878)	6/2/2000 1:46:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1574302

Here is some info on copper conversion status of the semi players: semibiznews.com ...Already, IBM, Motorola, and Advanced Micro Devices are ramping up production of copper-based ICs. And nearly a dozen other producers will join them in launching volume processes over the next 12 months. The competition is really hot in Asia, where the world's three largest silicon foundries are racing to offer copper technology to their broad customer bases of fabless chip companies... ...Currently, about 10 major chip makers are running dual-damascene copper processes in pilot fabs or full production, estimates Novellus' van den Hoek. In the U.S., IBM, Motorola, and AMD are well into production, with Texas Instruments Inc. running copper in a development lab, he says. (Intel Corp. isn't planning to go to copper until its 0.13-micron technology node)... Joe