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To: Big Bucks who wrote (23851)9/6/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: Larry Ames  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
"Any leading edge chip manufacturer that can make a quantum leap in
lithography techniques coupled with advanced copper and CMP and dual damascene techniques will establish the new processing standards and
have a tremendous strategic advantage over the competition."

BB,

Could this be the catalyst for fabs to upgrade to stay in the game? It seems to me that when this happens, those like IBM, TI, and INTC will have a very significant cost of manufacture advantage.

Thanks for your opinions,

Larry



To: Big Bucks who wrote (23851)9/6/1998 1:21:00 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire  Respond to of 70976
 
The lithography community is still arguing about the viability of x-ray. Among other things, there is no x-ray point source, so you have to build a synchrotron for every 16 steppers or fraction thereof. That makes x-ray development extremely expensive. X-ray also uses 1X proximity masks. It remains to be seen whether the necessary mask and lithography process control can be achieved at production volumes.

Katherine


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