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Technology Stocks : Cymer (CYMI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (16065)	3/26/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Larry Brew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

All, << An FYI about photolithography and wavelength >> To keep it in perspective. There is no large quantitative step between the the photo procedures discussed such as x-ray and duv, etc. It's a linear regression. Infra-red above 7000 angstroms to radio bands. Visible about 7000 down to 4000. UV from 4000 down to 1000. Extreme uv 1000 to 70. The current terms DUV fall above this band and is currently working with 2480 and 1930 angstroms. X-ray is below 70 down to .1 angstroms. Below .1 is Gamma. For the unknowing, .13 micron processing is 1300 angstroms. One can see that working with a wavelength of 1930 to produce 1300 geometry sizes, lacks resolution. Phase shifting work is being done to enhance current laser techniques to take DUV below the current 193nm or 1930 angstrom level giving the ability to process without x-ray techniques. CYMI will be a major player well beyond 2000, certainly longer than the stock market can vision. For detailed explanations you may want to visit the DPMI thread for some UT inputs. CYMI will be like one of those other things you can't get enough of. One being money......... Larry

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (16065)	3/26/1998 8:36:00 PM
From: W.R. Stolizino	Respond to of 25960

Greetings all! Especially for Messrs. Soule and Jetson. Why dump CYMI common and retain calls? Fair question. Because for a fraction of the commitment I was making in the common, I maintain leveraged exposure to CYMI in the event it does go up, and if I am wrong and the options expire worthless, it's just a cost of doing business. In the meantime, Elroy, the CYMI common that I converted to CPQ leaps has already turned a nice profit, thank you very much, with almost two years to run. Once the leaps go in the money, you are looking at a dollar-for-dollar return with leverage, and one can always roll over and up, increasing the number of contracts with the profits. I will take that any day, including today. And how did you fare? - Stoli