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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (6004)	6/24/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: TI2, TechInvestorToo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10921

They used to make a full line of products including wafer steppers. I believe the last product line to be ( and still is?) successful was ion implanters. They make dandy truck axles though in one of their other businesses! ;-) TI2

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (6004)	6/24/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: Grand Poobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10921

Eaton's semiconductor equipment division is one of the larger semi-equip companies. They usually don't get much attention because the parent company's other businesses are older and larger. Eaton is the market leader in high-current and high-energy ion implanters. They have a medium-current implanter line which has fallen on hard times, and they have also recently introduced an ultra-low-energy implanter. Their ion implant business is well established and goes back a couple decades. Along with Varian and Applied Materials they take most of the implanter business. I believe they claim to have the largest installed base of implanters in the world. They have also gone into rapid thermal processing and recently into ashers under the Fusion name. G.P.