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To: Loren who wrote (14997)	2/24/1998 5:48:00 PM
From: Mr. Aloha	Respond to of 25960

What is ISII? It's in Hercules and my wife and I can't figure it out??? Anyone?? Thanks

To: Loren who wrote (14997)	2/24/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: Andrew Vance	Respond to of 25960

AV

To: Loren who wrote (14997)	2/24/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: Andrew Vance	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25960

My apologies on ISI. ISI is Integrated Solutions, Inc., which consists of the old GCA Corporation lithography assets and personnel (engineering and Field Service). If you are familiar with the old GCA equipment (steppers and track systems) that were the original workhorses of the semiconductor industry, you are familiar with ISI. the company was formed with the help of GE Capital Ventur Funding and implemented a huge amount of GCA upgrades to the existing product family that languished under the old GCA and General Signal regimes. They are not publicly traded and do not have prodcution volume capabilities to produce their steppers. However, their steppers are of very high quality and can be found in many R&D applications. Some Background Data can be found under the General Lithography Thread on Silicon Investor. Worthy of note is their system in the hands of Sematech, their relationship with CYMI for lasers, and their dealing with Bell Labs on the Scalpel process. This company is worth following if and when it goes public. at one time, they were trying to shop themselves to the likes of an AMAT to become a major player. Sorry for giving you the impression this was a publicly traded company. The purpose of posting the article here was more to re-inforce the quality company CYMI is and to document there is life after 248 and 193 nm DUV. There is now a suite of device technologies that will give DUV and CYMI years of utilization. Andrew Vance