Anthony Toprac Joins Yield Dynamics as Director of Its New APC Development Center.Business Editors & Technology Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2001 Yield Dynamics, Inc. announced today the opening of its Advanced Process Control (APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. ) Development Center in Austin, TX, and that Dr. Anthony Toprac has joined the company as Vice President of APC Solutions and Director of the APC Development Center. The APC Development Center will augment Yield Dynamics' sales and support office in Austin. It is chartered with building Yield Dynamics' next generation of process control products and further establishing Yield Dynamics' APC framework and applications suite as the industry standard. Toprac comes to Yield Dynamics from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ). He joined AMD in 1984, and most recently served as Manager of Advanced Process Control Applications and AMD Fellow. From 1992-1995, he was as postdoctoral fellow at Sematech. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin “University of Texas” redirects here. For other system schools, see University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin (often referred to as The University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or Texas , a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. , and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas. He was the principal architect of AMD's internal APC systems, considered the most advanced in the industry, and is the author of numerous publications in he area of process control and semiconductor processing. He has been granted eight U.S. patents, and last year was recognized by AMD as the author of its most valuable patent of 2000. Toprac stated that, "There is tremendous synergy between yield management systems and advanced control applications in the semiconductor manufacturing arena. Yield Dynamics has the most advanced yield management systems, the Genesis suite of products, and the most advanced lithography control application, the MAPA MAPA Malaysia Airlines Pilots' Association MAPA Mexican-American Political Association MAPA Manila Action Plan for APEC MAPA Metropolitan Area Planning Agency MAPA Mine Action Program for Afghanistan (UN) product, on the market today. I am very excited by the opportunity to build on these existing world-class products and provide our customers with a suite of applications that meet all of the advanced control needs in today's state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing facility." About Yield Dynamics, Inc. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., Yield Dynamics is the technology leader in yield management and process control software for the semiconductor industry. Using advanced technology in statistics, simulation, data warehousing and data mining, Yield Dynamics provides a powerful solution suite that allows integrated circuit manufacturers to manage and increase fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. yields. In August 2000, Yield Dynamics and Tokyo Electron Ltd. announced a partnership to develop comprehensive process control solutions. Additional information about Yield Dynamics can be found at http://www.ydyn.com or by calling 408/330-9320. |
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