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

To: niek who wrote (20680)	9/19/2006 12:55:49 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25522

"Right now ASML is developing a maskless lithotool in which they use the DLP's from Texas Instruments to focus the light on the wafer. ASML started in 2004 and wil complete the maskless lithosystem in about three years from now. But don't expect high transferrate's. It produces only 6 tot 10 wafers per hour. So, a maskless lithosystem could be usefull for prototype IC's, but not for mass prodection. It's not an easy job, because you need a datatransfer of about 300GB per second to drive the DLP's" WOW! That would sure get the cost down for prototypes and cut into some of the business for my ALTR....