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To: J R KARY who wrote (17577)	9/3/1998 12:38:00 PM
From: HerbVic	Respond to of 213182

Is' nooo bul', Se¤oir Kary. From June 9, 1998 news release: EXCERPTED: The sale to IBM includes an equipment licensing and development agreement which gives IBM the right to a royalty-bearing, non-exclusive license to supplement Ibis' equipment manufacturing capacity. The purchase orders for the two implanters were previously disclosed in Ibis' press release dated March 5, 1998. The addition of these two new machines will bring IBM's installed base of Ibis 1000 implanters to a total of three. Martin J. Reid, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ibis Technology Corporation, commented: "We are very pleased with IBM's continued commitment to our SIMOX-SOI technology. We believe that the sale of these two additional Ibis 1000 implanters to IBM and the accompanying equipment licensing and development agreement represent significant progress in establishing SIMOX-SOI as an industry standard. Message 4782479 EXCERPTED EAST FISHKILL, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 1998--IBM today announced it has perfected a process for building high-speed transistors that can be used to deliver higher performance microchips for servers and mainframes, as well as more power-efficient chips for battery-operated hand-held devices. The technology, called "silicon-on-insulator" (SOI), represents a fundamental advance in the way chips are built. "We believe SOI, with its high-performance and low-power characteristics, is a significant breakthrough in chip technology," said Mike Attardo, general manager, IBM Microelectronics Division. "SOI and other advanced chip technologies will enable more powerful voice-recognition software to be broadly used in home computers, development of smaller cell phones with batteries lasting many hours longer than they do today and the creation of entire new classes of portable devices for accessing the Internet. "Like our copper chips, SOI will accelerate the industry's constant drive to create smaller, more powerful, less expensive electronic goods." IBM's unique SOI process protects the millions of tiny transistors on a chip with a "blanket" of insulation, reducing harmful electrical effects that sap energy and hinder performance. IBM engineers have manufactured SOI chips that improve performance by up to 35 percent -- translating into faster computers and communications gear. For example, a microprocessor designed to operate at 400 MHz could instead be built using SOI and could achieve speeds over 500 MHz. Message 5393672 Question is: Does IBM have an ownership stake in IBIS? HerbVic