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To: Curlton Latts who wrote (21663)	4/12/1999 4:41:00 PM
From: Mao II	Respond to of 25960

Curly: RE: "...guess you got up on the wrong side of the world..." ???? Best, M2

To: Curlton Latts who wrote (21663)	4/12/1999 6:50:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

Europe's chip makers look ahead to next-generation R&D A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted 11:30 a.m. EST/8:30 a.m., PST, 4/12/99 By Jack Robertson MUNICH -- European semiconductor companies are starting to plan for the "post-Medea" era -- cooperative chip research beginning in 2001 after the current four-year Microelectronics Development for European Applications (Medea) program ends, said Jurgen Knorr, chairman of the group. Interviewed at SEMI Semicon Europa here today, Knorr said that it is too early to tell what research projects and funding levels will be proposed by current Medea company participants. More than 100 European companies are engaged in the total of 48 current Medea projects, he said. The $2 billion Medea program, underway since 1997, is due to expire in 2000 (see story in the April publication). Knorr expected that one potential area for continued development will be extending logic chip design rule technology down to 0.13-micron feature size. A current Medea project involves developing 0.18-micron design rules for logic chips. Knorr, who retired several years ago as head of the then-Siemens AG Semiconductor Group, said increased research in smaller line geometries is essential to keeping pacewith the SIA Semiconductor Technology Roadmap. He said that as the roadmap accelerates the timetable for each new chip generation --0.13 micron chips have now been moved up to 2002 -- European producers will keep pace with the faster technology implementaiton. He said the European industry is also looking at advanced lithography, system-on-a-chip testing, and packaging as areas that deserve continued research. Medea this year launched an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) optics development program with ASM Lithography NV and Carl Zeiss GmbH. He believed that further EUV research was possible in the future to give European industry a major place in the Intel Corp.-backed next-generation lithography system.