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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dr_elis who wrote (8913)	2/17/2004 10:16:13 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

MB, but it takes only 2 hours to repair >300 hour reliability (MTBF) and less than 2 hour repair time (MTTR).< Gottfried

To: dr_elis who wrote (8913)	2/17/2004 10:39:45 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Michael, It also said: less than 2 hour repair time (MTTR).* Since I am not quite sure what the MTBF is for other machines, I cannot comment.....but I assume that they would not have included that in the press release unless it stacked up well with others. Would be curious to hear from any industry people. Brian

To: dr_elis who wrote (8913)	2/17/2004 10:53:48 AM
From: Big Bucks	Respond to of 25522

Mike, making extremely complicated wafers isn't like baking cookies. There are numerous process chambers on an Endura platform. Over a 300 hour time frame thousands of wafers can be processed....sputter targets and chamber cleans need to be done to insure particle defects are maintained to spec....this is phenomenal uptime for a piece of semi equipment this sophisticated. One nice feature is that if 1 process chamber goes down, it can usually be serviced without affecting the rest of the system which keeps running production wafers. BB