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To: BillyG who wrote (15468)	3/5/1998 4:26:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

BillyG, RE:Now that I read it again, could it mean that they are developing technology for use in post-optical lithography steps? They are working on a 13nm source for EUV applications. Bob

To: BillyG who wrote (15468)	3/5/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 25960

Billy>>Well I hope their own people got his quote right but as I recall in Quarterly reports or an Electronic News interview A-team alluded to that fact - They see the future and its theirs to take!! I better find that for my own information base.. eddyb

To: BillyG who wrote (15468)	3/6/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: Tulvio Durand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

It is a great pleasure to see Cymer stepping, albeit belatedly, into the limelight of the U.Texas/DPMI 0.8 micron optical lithography breakthrough. It's too bad it was not timed to coincide with the original announcement or made part of a joint announcement, for it would have gotten Cymer a lot more PR mileage. I see Cymer's ArF laser contribution not lesser than DPMI's, yet DPMI got all the (commercial) credit. Hopefully the PR firm recently hired by Cymer will be more attentive to PR opportunities in the future. Regarding the post optical lithography statement in the announcement, Bob Akins stated several times that Cymer is actively developing soft X-ray radiating sources as follow-on to the DUV lasers. These devices will be powered by electric discharge of a capacitor-like storage device, thereby obviating the need of the very expensive synchrotron that is used in other competing x-ray-lithography (XRL) developments. Cymer DUV lasers is indisputably the choice optical lithography source now and probably will remain so for the next ten years. Cymer's soft-XRL may well succeed Cymer's DUV lasers beyond year 2010 as the choice lithography source. Tulvio