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To: slipnsip who wrote (16533)	4/14/1998 3:38:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

Sure -- In order to make commercial chips with small .15 to .18 micron line widths, you just about have to use deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography to expose the fine patterns on the wafers. The photolithography equipment is called a "stepper", and it uses a DUV light source. The vast majority of DUV equipment uses CYMI eximer lasers as the light source, such as the ArF or KrF lasers mentioned in the article. CYMI is a supplier of lasers to Nikon and Canon, which are mentioned in the article. In other words, everyone is rushing to make smaller, cheaper, faster, lower power consumption chips. The only way to do this (for commercial chip production) is to use DUV lithography, and CYMI is the dominant supplier of DUV lasers to the manufacturers of DUV lithography equipment.