Applied Materials Unveils Major New Technology Center To Enable Future Chip Manufacturing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com 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)--March 21, 2002 Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. NASDAQ: AMAT (HKSE: 4336 ) is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel solar displays, solar , 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 ) State-of-the-Art Development Facility Helps Customers Bring New Chip Technologies to Market Faster Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) is leading the way to a new era in chipmaking with the announcement today of its Process Module Technology Center, the equipment industry's most advanced facility for semiconductor process technology development. The state-of-the-art facility, equipped with a full complement of process, yield enhancement and automation technologies, can greatly speed customers' development and introduction of future faster, more powerful, sub-100-nanometer copper-based chips Copper-based chips are semiconductor integrated circuits, usually microprocessors, which use copper for interconnections. Since copper is a better conductor than aluminum, chips using this technology can have smaller metal components, and use less energy to pass electricity through . "This new world-class facility reflects Applied Materials' strong commitment to pioneer cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing solutions with our customers," said Dr. Dan Maydan, president of Applied Materials. "In the extremely competitive semiconductor market, our customers will need to rapidly reach volume production and high yield to meet critical market windows for their next-generation chips. Closely simulating customers' fab environments, this facility allows us to better understand their challenges and work hand-in-hand to provide the most effective and optimized solutions possible." The new center is Applied Materials' second dedicated technology development facility in Silicon Valley and further extends the success of its Equipment Process Integration Center (EPIC) that opened in November 1998. Located in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , the new 166,000 square foot facility features 39,000 square feet of clean room space with ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. Class 3 air handling and capacity to house over 300 individual pieces of process and support tools, making it the largest process facility operated by an equipment supplier. Combined, these facilities represent the greatest concentration of process integration experience and investments in future technology ever made by an equipment supplier, providing unmatched support for customers as they make the critical transitions to the nanochip era and beyond. The combined facilities incorporate Applied Materials' latest 100nm and below generation process and inspection technologies for transistor and copper interconnect (1) To attach one device to another. (2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another. fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. to enable the world's highest performance chip designs. The exceptional complexity of 100nm generation chips has led Applied Materials to develop a new business model for the semiconductor equipment industry with its Process Module(TM) approach. Both facilities are dedicated to this concept of integrating multiple individual systems to function as single highly automated units, reducing the need for customers to perform costly and time consuming process integration themselves. Applied Materials' investment in the new facility includes the most advanced DUV DUV Deep Ultraviolet DUV Data-Under-Voice DUV Design Under Verification photolithography A lithographic technique used to transfer the design of circuit paths onto printed circuit boards as well as the circuit paths and electronic elements of a chip onto a wafer's surface. A photomask is created with the design for each layer of the board or wafer (chip). support available, including both 248nm and 193nm wavelength 300mm wafer patterning capability. Complete analytical and testing capability is available for electrical and reliability verification of device performance. Combined with world-class metrology and inspection systems for optimized wafer processing quality and yield, the center is an exceptional resource for next generation device production. As a fully equipped facility, the new center provides Applied Materials with extensive construction, equipment installation and maintenance experience that strengthen its capability to support customers with new Total Service Solution programs such as RPM (1) (Revolutions Per Minute) With electric and electronics devices, RPM measures the rotational speed of the motor's spindle. Floppy disks rotate at 300 RPM, while hard disks rotate from 3,000 to 15,000 RPM. (Ramp Performance Management(TM)). The RPM is the equipment industry's first turnkey service for installing process equipment in customers' new and existing fabs. "Applied Materials has continuously invested to deliver new technologies and services that provide our customers with strategic cost, yield, quality and productivity advantages," said Maydan. "At our two facilities, customers will be able to work side by side with Applied Materials technologists to develop and qualify next generation chips and manufacturing processes, working on critical challenges such as low and high (kappa Kappa Used in regression analysis, Kappa represents the ratio of the dollar price change in the price of an option to a 1% change in the expected price volatility. Notes: Remember, the price of the option increases simultaneously with the volatility. ) dielectrics, copper interconnects and smaller, faster transistor designs." Applied Materials (Nasdaq:AMAT), the largest supplier of products and services to the global semiconductor industry, is one of the world's leading information infrastructure providers. Applied Materials enables Information for Everyone(TM) by helping semiconductor manufacturers produce more powerful, portable and affordable chips. Applied Materials' Web site is http://www.appliedmaterials.com Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : Applied Materials' Process Module Technology Center: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.032102/bb2 http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.032102/bb2a http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.032102/bb2b http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.032102/bb2c |
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