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To: Sam Citron who wrote (60964)	2/26/2002 8:44:01 AM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

The big semi equips seem to be mostly ignoring the III-V space. Too small to be interesting, at least for the time being. Smaller players (Trikon, for instance) are finding that it's a good niche. As III-V volume grows, manufacturers need equipment that can support Si-like manufacturing practices, and most traditional III-V equipment suppliers don't have that focus. SiGe is close enough to Si that most Si equipment could probably be used unchanged. That's part of the appeal of SiGe, in fact. I don't have specific numbers, but I suspect the bigger semi equips will do reasonably well with SiGe. I wrote an article on optoelectronics for Semiconductor Magazine last month. Once they publish it (early March), there will be a link here: thinfilmmfg.com I've also written a few shorter items dealing with III-Vs. Links are here: search.atomz.com Katherine