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To: art slott who wrote (3259)	6/14/1998 3:31:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8218

IBM's and Motorola reveal working copper SRAM and DRAMs Progress apparent since December's design on paper : " HONOLULU - IBM Corp. and Motorola Inc., which unveiled their respective copper-interconnect processes at last December's International Electron Devices Meeting, surfed into the 1998 VLSI Technology Symposium here this week with fast SRAMs manufactured on those copper-enhanced processes. In many respects, the separate papers presented here resembled a pair of synchronized swimmers... " eet.com INTC , facing a FTC lawsuit , is speculated as : " Intel Corp. is likely to combine copper with a low-K dielectric material between the metal lines, making the two-step advance together in the 0.13-micron process generation now under development. " INTC should be aware IBM's FTC troubles began in 1956 with a patented notch on a 80 col. punched card . INTC , in 1998 , needs to explain why it has proprietary motherboard notches (slots ) for its CPUs . History repeats . Jim K.