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From: mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Here are five counterexamples
Summary: OK so there are 8; I can't count
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Date: 10 Jan 90 04:11:20 GMT
References: <143@daedalus.nsc.com>
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In article <143@daedalus.nsc.com> andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head       ) writes:
>
>Bottom line I read is that there are no more
>US companies in this market - the Japanese hold 100%. I don't recall my
>source (sorry - magazine plethora) but do recall this in the context of
>a Taiwanese chip vendor complaining that if Japan decided to deny him
>trade, he'd have nowhere else in the world to go, and was lamenting the
>lack of US manufacturers of this equipment. This was in the last week or two.

What about the following US semi equipment vendors?

       GCA           Wafer steppers including g- and i-line lenses
       Ultratech     Wafer steppers    "
       Genus         Silicide
       LAM           etchers
       Varian        e-beam reticle machines ("eEBES"), also ion implanters
       Nanoline      in-situ film thickness monitors
       Teradyne      Laser fuse-blowing for DRAM redundancy implementation
                     (performed in the clean room between M2 and passivation)
                     (note: major market for these is in Japan)
       Applied Materials  Epitaxy reactors


There are dozens and dozens more; these are just a handful.
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