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To: brent gephart who wrote (3798)	11/4/1997 9:56:00 AM
From: Candle stick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9695

>>>My concerns lie with how committed people will be with Jmars technology if Intel wants to head in another direction. I believe INTEL has always been headed in the "other direction". They have always been the champion of Optical Lithography ans IBM is the backer of X-Ray Lithography......... Here is an article that explains who backs what: sumnet.com Here is an excerpt, but I highly reccomend reading the entire article: "Right now, there are five technologies, all at different stages of development; all of them have more unknowns than knowns," said Ms. Brown. She is reluctant to release the names of the companies and/or experts who will champion the various lithography projects evaluated at the workshop. Some technologies have somewhat obvious champions. X-ray lithography has long been the subject of intense research at IBM, with some Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) assistance. Ion projection lithography, mainly under development in Europe, is believed to be the turf of Siemens and others. Lucent Technologies, the AT&T spinoff, recently dropped its development of X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography in favor of E-beam projection technology, its Scalpel program. Lucent has received some DARPA assistance as well. Armed by its recent private consortium announcement, Intel is the logical choice to champion EUV lithography, although Advanced Micro Devices' and Motorola's participation in the EUV Limited Liability Co. (EUV LLC) adds their names to mix. Intel has been working with the Sandia, Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs--collectively known as the newly-formed Virtual National Lab--to bring about this technology. The final contender is E-beam direct write, which comprises several different technologies also called multi-beam, micro-column or cell projection. In the U.S., Etec Systems comes up as the name of a possible champion. E-beam direct write is also the subject of U.S. government research and work done at Cornell University, according to sources.