Aplex - The Emerging CMP Company - Opens Office in Taiwan.SUNNYVALE Sunnyvale, city (1990 pop. 117,229), Santa Clara co., W Calif., near San Francisco; settled 1849, inc. 1912. A city in Silicon Valley, its many manufactures include semiconductors; machinery and instruments; electrical, electronic, and aerospace products; , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1998--Aplex Inc. of Sunnyvale, has announced the opening of a subsidiary in Hsinchu Industrial Park, Taiwan. This operation is being established to support the growing business opportunity for chemical mechanical planarization (CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information ) equipment in the Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing facilities. Dr. Albert Hu, President of Aplex comments on the importance of this expansion, "This is the first step in a long term operational strategy for Aplex. We have relationships and connections in Taiwan through potential customers, business associates and investors. We expect to establish Aplex Taiwan as our headquarters in Asia from which we can serve the entire Asian region with direct high level service and process support. As our Asian business develops, we expect to establish manufacturing partnerships to help lower the cost of our systems while also providing local product customization. Taiwan is currently the fastest growing market segment for CMP equipment with a highly developed manufacturing infrastructure. This will enable Aplex to become a global, low cost manufacturer strategically positioned in Asia as well as in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Europe." Aplex is an emerging supplier in CMP. The company has developed a planarization tool, which utilizes Equal Vertical Velocity Vertical Velocity can refer to
Planarity is the name of a puzzle computer game based on a concept by Mary Radcliffe at Western Michigan University[1]. across the die with minimum sensitivity to pattern density. Rick La France La France was a single that was released by Dutch popgroup BZN in 1986. It is about a man and woman who met and fell in love while in France. , Vice President of Customer Operations states, "Improved planarity through the use of high speed, low pressure, harder surface belt technologies is an enabling technology for the improvement of device yields at 0.18 micron micron: see micrometer. One micrometer, which is one millionth of a meter or approximately 1/25,000 of an inch. The tiny elements that make up a transistor on a chip are measured in micrometers and nanometers. See process technology. and smaller feature sizes." Aplex is currently represented by Marubeni Solutions in Japan, Prism Technologies in the United States and Aneric Enterprises in Singapore. For more information, contact Aplex directly or visit the Aplex website at www.aplexinc.com. |
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