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To: Juniper who wrote (1578)	3/31/1998 11:16:00 AM
From: David Aegis	Respond to of 2946

Juniper--the Track facility has a Micrascan III test room, but clustering was not one of the features that was highlighted. When I went on my tour in early March, they had shipped four prototype 200-APS's to four different customers. Such a quick move by one of these customers to a production order is somewhat surprising. That customer may have figured out how to cluster the 200-APS. I did not get the impression on my factory tour that a cluster tool was being marketed by SVG, since the focus seemed to be on proving the 200-APS's merits on a stand alone basis. That SVG has placed a $7 million Micrascan III in the Track facility, however, is a clear indication that they will be clustering the tools at some time in the future. --David