Digital BW, The Print

Chris Aitken wrote:

>>The vertical market is an interesting one too. The three 
>>wafer stepper manufacturers ASML (former Philips company), 
>>Nikon and Canon are relying on resp Zeiss, Nikon and Canon 
>>glass in their wafer steppers. 
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>So ASML, Nikon, and Canon are wafer stepper manufacturers. The use Zeiss,
>Nikon & Canon glass respectivley.
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>>There's however only one company that makes wafer steppers, 
>>the glass for wafer steppers, sensors, cameras and the glass 
>>for cameras: Canon. 
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>Hang on. You say that only Canon make wafer steppers, & the glass for such
>steppers? That is a direct contradiciton to your above statement.
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>Or do you mean that only Canon make the package (stepper, stepper glass,
>sensors, cameras & camera glass). Do Nikon not make sensors then? Because
>they make steppers, stepper glass (as per top para), definitely make cameras
>& camera glass.
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But no sensors as I wrote. Given the Sony move to KonicaMinolta for DSLR 
development I guess Sony isn't expecting that Nikon will buy its sensors 
for ever there. Understandable after the Nikon flirts with Kodak and 
Fuji. But could there be Nikon sensors in the pipeline too ?

Ernst