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In article <34315@mips.mips.COM>, mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:

> 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.
> -- 
>  -- Mark Johnson	

Mark is right, of course.  However...

1)  Large asian conglomerates could buy these companies out in an instant.
If Nikon can buy P-E,....   

2)  The way US business law is written (esp. Delaware law), the companies
have little defense against a 2 or 3x share price buyout.  Big players
can easily afford this.  

3)  The way US Congress acts, US business law will not change soon.

4)  The way US Do[CDEL...] act, there will be no push to disallow certain
technologies from foreign ownership.  Assuming foreign ownership is bad,
of course.  Is it?

Rob
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