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To: StanX Long who wrote (56403)	11/28/2001 1:54:55 AM
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300mm starting to have an impact. Tuesday November 27 4:07 PM ET Ibis Surges as Customers Order Larger Wafers dailynews.yahoo.com SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Ibis Technology Corp. (Nasdaq:IBIS - news) surged more than 17 percent on Tuesday after the company said it has received orders for its dinner-plate-sized wafers, which increase the power efficiency and heat reduction in transistors, the tiny switches that make up microchips. The industry, led by Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news), is moving to larger wafers that are 300 millimeters in diameter, from the current 200 millimeters. The larger size of the wafers, from which semiconductors are made, mean chipmakers can get more chips from each wafer, boosting productivity and cutting costs. ``We have more than one customer ordering 300 millimeter,'' Al Alioto, vice president of sales and marketing for Ibis, told Reuters, adding that Ibis expects to start producing its 300-millimeter Advantox MLD-UT wafers at the end of December. Danvers, Massachusetts-based Ibis' (IBIS.O) stock closed up $1.51 at $10.21 on Nasdaq volume of 1.1 million shares, more than 12 times the daily average of 87,000.