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To: Apple12 who wrote (8732)	11/7/1997 10:37:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 25960

I saw that article a couple of days ago, too. Let's hope CYMI knows what its doing -- I'm sure they debated long and hard before they teamed up with Seiko to build lasers in Japan. In the short term, it's a shrewd move when you're selling 60% of your output to Japanese companies -- Canon and Nikon. In the long term, who knows. Japanese companies are very nationalistic, and there is lots of "talking" among companies. But hey, that's what patents are for, and CYMI has filed many in Japan.

To: Apple12 who wrote (8732)	11/8/1997 9:19:00 AM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25960

The article imlpies that the Japaneses group may have ruled out ion beam and X-ray , in favor of argon-flouride deep UVL or electron beam. The USA Sematech group so far is still unable to decide which of the 4 technologies to back. In the case of the US group, politics is playing a big role with advocates of each system wanting their idea to win. I think it is highly likely that they all will wind up going with a familiar technology, deep UVL , if it can be shown to work. All of the other candidates have too many unknowns about their ability to be used in real world mass production. Deep UVL would require far less new technology to be put in place all at one time, and fab managers know that a chain of production is only as strong as it's weakest link.