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Technology Stocks : JMAR Technologies(JMAR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Starlight who wrote (9359)	3/3/2001 11:05:02 PM
From: X-Ray Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9695

Not direct info on JMAR, but a relevant update on the stage of next generation lithography at the SPIE Microlithography meeting this past week in Santa Clara... Projection ebeam limps along: SCALPEL is dead, but IBM flogs the PREVAIL horse. Meanwhile, IBM quietly joins the EUVL crowd. Last bastion in Japan of active work in x-ray, NEC, reports most recent work on stepper, and then shuts down the program. Intel declares EUVL the NGL winner by default, because of the death of PEL and PXL. That means, vendors may stop producing x-ray masks and resists. Best at this point NOT to include x-ray in your future valuations for JMAR at this point. As long as DARPA provides funds, I think development will go forward, but there may be no industrial interest anytime soon. Meanwhile 193nm is going into production, and 157nm is progressing, meaning optical is producing features at the size that JMAR would wish to demonstrate. Sorry I don't have better news. All for now...