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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (198213)	5/21/2006 10:06:31 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"What kind of reasons ? variation in raw materials ? Or variation in the performance of equipment handling the materials ?" There was an article from www.eet.com that I posted here last year. It went over the issues. A large part of the problem is that the exact state individual atoms are in at the time of processing starts to make a difference. So that needs to be compensated for in later processing steps. "Does APM have a track record in 65 nm ?" It has been running with 65nm ever since they started process development, so yes.