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To: Peter V who wrote (13816)	8/22/2000 5:03:38 PM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14427

Semi equipment industry manufactures clean room apparatus, robotic handling tools, and the photolithography, etch, deposition, ion implantation and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) equipment necessary to map and manufacture an integrated circuit. Each of these are separate processes. CYMI and GSNX are in different segments in the IC process. CYMI's laser are used in DUV (deep ultra violet) photolithography equipment made by many manufacturers. GSNX makes equipment that is used to process wafers during the photoresist removal, residual removal and isotropic etch processes during IC making. Here are their profiles: GaSonics International Corporation is a global supplier of products and services for the dry photoresist and residue removal segments of advanced integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing. The Company's products consist of photoresist removal systems, residue removal systems, isotropic etch systems, and high pressure furnaces for the semiconductor industry and low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) and thermal annealing systems for the flat panel display (FPD) industry. The photoresist removal, residual removal and isotropic etch systems use proprietary downstream plasma processing technology designed to increase yields in the manufacture of advanced ICs. The Company markets and sells its products to IC manufacturers worldwide. The Company's major product line consists of advanced dry chemical processing equipment for photoresist removal. The Company also offers advanced dry chemical processing equipment for post-etch residue removal. Cymer, Inc. is engaged primarily in the development, manufacturing and marketing of excimer lasers for sale to manufacturers of photolithography tools in the semiconductor equipment industry. Cymer's lasers are incorporated into step-and-repeat and step-and-scan photolithography systems for use in the manufacture of semiconductors with critical feature sizes below 0.35 microns. Cymer's customers include all five manufacturers of DUV photolithography systems: ASM Lithography, Canon, Nikon, SVG Lithography and Ultratech Stepper. Photolithography systems incorporating Cymer's excimer lasers have been purchased by each of the world's 20 largest semiconductor manufacturers: AMD, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hyundai, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Lucent, Matsushita, Micron, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC, Philips, Rohm, Samsung, Sanyo, ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. Cymer's products consist of photolithography lasers, replacement parts and service.