1st Silicon Selects Applied Materials' SiNgen and Radiance Technologies for High Performance Transistor Fabrication.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2004 Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT AMAT Applied Materials (stock symbol) AMAT Average Memory Access Time AMAT Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter AMAT Anti-Materiel (bomb or mine) AMAT Ageing Management Assessment Team ) announced today that 1st Silicon of Malaysia has purchased its Applied Centura(R) SiNgen(TM) LPCVD LPCVD Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (1) and Applied Centura(R) Radiance(TM) RTP (1) (Rapid Transport Protocol) The protocol used in IBM's High Performance Routing (HPR) system. (2) (Realtime Transport Protocol) An IP protocol that supports real time transmission of voice and video. (2) systems for fabricating advanced logic, flash and embedded flash chips in its Fab 1 foundry facility in Kuching. According to Dr. John Nelson, chief executive officer of 1st Silicon, "This equipment will help us to support our niche processes such as flash, embedded flash, image sensor and high voltage, in addition to standard logic and mixed signal devices. As we extend our technologies, we see Applied Materials as being an integral part of our process development activities. Applied Materials is well-known for its leading transistor manufacturing solutions, based on their systems' advanced technical capabilities and production-worthy hardware." Applied Materials' SiNgen LPCVD chambers and RTP chambers with In Situ In place. When something is "in situ," it is in its original location. Steam Generation (ISSG ISSG Invasive Species Specialist Group (IUCN) ISSG In-Situ Steam Generation ISSG Information Strategy Steering Group ISSG Internet Services Study Group ISSG Illustrated Shipboard Shopping Guide ISSG Intelligence Support Steering Group ) capability will be used to develop an inter-poly oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) dielectric gate stack. This multi-chamber, single-wafer solution allows precise control across the wafer and repeatable results from wafer-to-wafer, enabling customers to fabricate a thin, uniform, ONO stack. Applied Materials' single-wafer thermal systems can also perform these key process steps in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
The Applied Centura Radiance RTP is the industry's most successful RTP technology, with systems in virtually every major chip manufacturing facility in the world. 1st Silicon plans to use this system for both soak and spike anneals through at least two technology nodes to maintain precise control of dopant dopant Any impurity added to a semiconductor to modify its electrical conductivity. The most common semiconductors, silicon and germanium, form crystalline lattices in which each atom shares electrons with four neighbours (see bonding). activation and electrical performance in transistor structures. "We are pleased that 1st Silicon has chosen our systems for Malaysia's first 200mm production line," said Dr. Randhir Thakur, vice president and general manager of Applied Materials' Front End Products Group. "Applied Materials values the long term relationship we've had with 1st Silicon in supporting their niche strategies and we look forward to working with them in the future by continuing to provide the processing solutions that help enable their success." 1st Silicon is a dedicated semiconductor foundry founded in 1998 by the Malaysia State of Sarawak. 1st Silicon's 200mm wafer fab has a capacity in excess 45,000 wafers per month when fully ramped for process technologies ranging from 0.25 micron down to 0.13 micron. 1st Silicon's customers include integrated device manufacturers and fabless semiconductor companies from semiconductor companies worldwide. The company has its headquarters in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia and a US registered Subsidiary Corporation located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . 1st Silicon's homepage is at www.1si.com. Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) is the largest supplier of equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry. Applied Materials' web site is www.appliedmaterials.com. (1) LPCVD: low pressure chemical vapor deposition (2) RTP: rapid thermal processing Rapid Thermal Processing (or RTP) refers to a semiconductor manufacturing process which heats silicon wafers to high temperatures (up to 1200 C or greater) on a timescale of several seconds or less. |
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