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To: Ian@SI who wrote (4921)	2/25/1998 12:10:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10921

Ian and ALL, "Startling advance on chips reported" form San Jose Mercury News. GM mercurynews.com Posted at 11:04 p.m. PST Tuesday, February 24, 1998 Startling advance on chips reported Simple materials vastly boost power BY TOM QUINLAN Mercury News Staff Writer The semiconductor industry -- which has been seeking to increase processor power through a complicated, multibillion-dollar reinvention of chip making -- may find the answer instead in a piece of quartz and a new coat of paint. Researchers at the University of Texas and DuPont Photomask Inc. said Tuesday they have discovered a way to use these simple materials to help create chips roughly 40 percent the size of today's most sophisticated microprocessors and with anywhere from 10 to 100 times the performance.<snip> And for chip companies, it means they may be able to put off for a decade or more the need to shift to entirely new types of lithography. ''I didn't think it was possible,'' said Howard High, a spokesman for Intel Corp. Believing that lithography had to be completely rethought, Intel recently committed $250 million to exploring new methods.