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To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (11083)	3/23/1998 9:25:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 25814

Jock, as I understand it, the copper chip technology has to do with the connectors part of a chip. I'm sure shane will expound the relationship (if any) copper would have on improving the G12 technology. o~~~ O

To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (11083)	3/23/1998 9:50:00 AM
From: Grand Poobah	Respond to of 25814

There is a good article comparing process technology using copper metallization to that using aluminum at techweb.cmp.com It does not talk about LSI's G12, but it does compare IBM's decisions to VLSI's, which I think would be comparable to LSI, although it is my impression that LSI is slightly ahead of VLSI in process technology. But you never really know about those kind of things since a lot of it is PR hype. I thought the article above was very good and pretty accurate, although I disagree strongly with their contention that "In recent years, the CMOS logic industry has proceeded nearly in lockstep." As someone who worked for a more or less fabless company dependent on foundries, I can testify that it was anything but lockstep. Otherwise a very informative article. BTW, Shane, thanks for the article on quantum transistors. Maybe a decade or two from now I can start putting all that quantum mechanics I studied to some use other than impressing people on SI. :) G.P.