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To: combjelly who wrote (37695)	4/29/2001 8:46:27 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 275872

This might be the case. When the (minimal) details of the process were announced last year, it was described as a "Motorola-AMD" process without any mention of IBM. In addition, the thickness of the oxide indicated that it was done in situ instead of as a separate processing step (Hans DeVries posted something here about that, something about atomic windows). Now, there is some mention about an SOI process licensed from IBM. Now it might have been that way from the beginning... I find it very difficult to believe that Moto would have proposed epitaxial lateral overgrowth as the method by which these SOI wafers were to be generated. I find it even more difficult to believe that AMD would have gone along with it for any length of time. I think Hans's conclusions might have been a stretch. THE WATSONYOUTH