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

To: niek who wrote (20677)	9/16/2006 4:58:31 PM
From: Big Bucks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Niek, you very much underestimate the sheer design rule complexities and the underlying toolset construction physics involved to faithfully reproduce deep submicron lithography. It could be that this antenna focusing technique might someday become a manufacturable alternative to current optical techniques, but it won't be a simple matter of just plugging in a simple component to existing lithography tool sets and starting production. All new technologies come with a completely new set of problems and engineering issues that need to be addressed and resolved before they become reliable working toolsets. I reference e-beam, x-ray, and deep UV lithography as examples of promising lithography techniques that have been in development for over 20 years but still have not addressed all the engineering hurdles to become viable production toolsets. BB