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To: Paul V. who wrote (20673)	6/23/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

"Applied Ships 100th Mirra CMP System." "Radiply gaining market share"- Bad news for SFAM and IPEC: biz.yahoo.com Excerpt: VLSI Research, a market research firm, estimates the 1997 CMP market to total $523 million, growing to $831 million by 2001. The Mirra CMP system is currently installed at the majority of the world's top 20 chipmakers, including customers in the U.S., Taiwan, Europe, Japan and Korea. G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research said, ''Applied Materials started with a unique CMP system architecture that promised tremendous flexibility and high output. They spent the next two years developing a broad application library and refining the Mirra system's hardware, especially the polishing head which is the key to the Mirra CMP technology. This strategy is now making itself felt in a steady expansion of Applied Materials' CMP market presence.''