August Technology Invited to Join Leading Chip Manufacturers as Member of DPC - Die Products Consortium.Business Editors & Technology Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2002 August Technology (Nasdaq:AUGT) today announced it has accepted an invitation to join leading microelectronics companies as a member of the Die Products Consortium (DPC DPC Department of Premier and Cabinet (Victoria, Australia) DPC Dutch Power Cows DPC Deferred Procedure Calls (Microsoft Windows NT 4. ). The DPC has been established to advance the adoption of die products, completed chips that are directly attached to systems-in-a-package, multi-chip modules A Multi-Chip Module or MCM is a specialized electronic package where multiple integrated circuits (ICs), semiconductor dies or other modules are packaged in such a way as to facilitate their use as a single IC. or printed circuit boards without individual assembly and packaging. Examples of die products include flip chips and wafer level packaged devices. The DPC was founded in 1998 by National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. , Lucent, Rockwell and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . The Consortium's mission is to provide leadership to the IC industry for developing methods that promote improved die product quality, reliability, handling, shipping and associated infrastructure at the lowest cost, to meet the needs of users for smaller form factor, higher performance, lower cost products. The DPC is also involved in developing technical solutions and business strategies for promoting the die products industry. "August Technology is proud to be joining this industry-leading organization," said Dan Nelson, August Technology's director of strategic corporate marketing. "Our leading-edge inspection solutions and expertise in providing process feedback are critical to characterizing known good die. The DPC has invited August Technology to share its expertise by helping lead the efforts to develop known good die (KGD KGD Known Good Die (semiconductor industry) KGD Kaliningrad, Russia - Kaliningrad Airport (Airport Code) KGD King's Gambit Declined (chess) KGD Komitee Für Grundrechte Und Demokratie ) standards and solutions for the die products industry." Current members of the DPC include National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, IBM, Amkor, Chip Supply, Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Tempo Electronics, Agere, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, and Analog Devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. . Additional information about the consortium can be found on the Internet at www.dieproduct.com. Forward-Looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. : This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including statements regarding the Die Products Consortium (DPC) and August Technology's involvement in the Consortium, and including without limitation, information regarding known good die technology standards and solutions resulting from the DPC, the compatibility of the DPC's technology standards and solutions with current technology, the future success of the DPC's product and process developments and standards, the DPC members' long-term plans to collaborate on accelerating the commercial availability of DPC-developed solutions, and the ability of certain of the DPC members to support the DPC. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to the rapid pace of technological change in the microelectronic industries, strategic decisions and ability to implement by DPC and its members, or any unforeseen difficulties in the development and acceptance of the DPC's solutions, or in the economy in general. August Technology Corporation, based in Bloomington, Minnesota Bloomington is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, and a southern suburb of Minneapolis. As of 2005, it had a population of 84,347, making it the largest Twin Cities suburb, and the fifth largest city in the state[1]. , is a leading supplier of automated visual defect inspection equipment for the microelectronics industry and has established service and sales representation in all major microelectronics manufacturing markets worldwide. The inspection solutions designed, manufactured and marketed by August Technology provide microelectronic device manufacturers with cost-saving quality and process information. August Technology is a founding member of the Advanced Packaging and Interconnect Alliance (APiA). Additional information can be found by visiting August Technology's web site at www.augusttech.com. |
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