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To: HB who wrote (2954)4/30/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: Rob-Chemist  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3736
 
Interesting question. I am pretty sure that the LRCX cleaning stage is used by both IPEC and AMAT, so this may be a way to increase their market share in this market and further hedge their bets on their own polishing stage. I think they have somewhere around 70% of the cleaning market. I may be wrong, but I believe SFAM is the primary CMP manufacturer that has chosen not to use the LRCX cleaner.