Brooks Automation, Inc. Signs Multi-Million Dollar Deal with Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.Business/Technology Editors CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2000 First Pure-Play Foundry Deal For Brooks Automation Encompasses Brooks Automation's Complete Suite of Software Products Brooks Automation, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BRKS BRKS Brooks (street suffix) ), a leader in semiconductor tool and factory automation solutions for the global semiconductor industry, today announced that it has received a multi-million dollar order from Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. The Silterra order includes nearly the entire suite of Brooks' software products. In addition to the benefits implicit in Adj. 1. implicit in - in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning" underlying, inherent an order of this size, Brooks will now have a strategic partner in the Malaysian semiconductor market with Silterra. Brooks Automation provides factory automation software solutions for WIP WIP Work In Progress WIP Work in Process WIP World Internet Project WIP Women in Prison (movie genre) WIP World Institute of Pain WIP Wash-In-Place WIP Women in Publishing WIP Work In Place WIP Wireless Internet Protocol tracking, maintenance management, process and equipment control, recipe management, process analysis and optimization, material control system management, scheduling and simulation. Silterra has licensed the following from Brooks: -- Factoryworks(TM) -Manufacturing Execution Software -- Cellworks(TM) -Workcell Control Platform -- Grapheq(TM) -Equipment Communications Software (communications, software) communications software - Application programs, operating system components, and probably firmware, forming part of a communication system. These different software components might be classified according to the functions within the Open Systems -- Xsite(TM) -Computerized Maintenance Management Solutions -- RS/1(TM) -Integrated Data Analysis Suite -- Cornerstone -Exploratory Data Analysis Software Brooks is well positioned to receive additional orders for products from its recent acquisition, Auto-Soft Corporation, to provide material control system software for optimizing use of interbay, intrabay and stocker hardware. Furthermore, Silterra has indicated it plans to purchase professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. from Brooks Automation, Inc. to help deploy the software. Silterra plans to implement the software products at its full-service manufacturing facility in (Kulim) Malaysia. The Malaysia factory is expected to leverage the advanced capabilities of Brooks' full suite of factory automation products to enable e-commerce solutions that will allow the user to see directly to the factory floor. "Silterra is pleased to implement Brooks Automation's top-to-bottom factory automation solutions for equipment automation and data analysis in our new Malaysian facility," said K.C. Ang, vice president of operations, Silterra. "Brooks' products give us state-of-the-art software automation products with a proven track record. With the Brooks' software products in place, we expect to meet our goal of achieving optimal factory performance." Bill Swanton, vice president and services director of Manufacturing Strategies for AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. Research, observed, "Brooks Automation is starting to reap the rewards of its software acquisition strategy with the sale to Silterra. Its customers get one-stop shopping for fab software, reducing the integration cost and risk. More and more companies will compete not just on their features and functions, but on the completeness of their offerings." "Our relationship with Silterra reflects our expanded factory automation business model. We believe that Brooks is the only company that can provide a fully-integrated CIM (1) (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing) Integrating office/accounting functions with automated factory systems. Point of sale, billing, machine tool scheduling and supply ordering are part of CIM. system at a much lower risk than the previous model of point solution integration," said Robert J. Therrien, president and chief executive officer of Brooks Automation, Inc. The number of semiconductor factories in Malaysia is expected to increase significantly over the next few years. Our relationship with Silterra gives us the opportunity to demonstrate the value of Brooks' factory automation software to new semiconductor manufacturers opening in Malaysia." Brooks Automation, Inc. We are a leading supplier of integrated tool and factory automation solutions for the global semiconductor manufacturing and related industries. Our automation solutions are designed to optimize equipment and factory productivity. These solutions include tool automation modules, complete semiconductor wafer handling systems and automation software and integration services. We sell our tool automation products principally to manufacturers of process equipment used in semiconductor fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. facilities, or fabs. We sell our factory automation products principally to semiconductor manufacturers. We also sell our products to data storage and flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time manufacturers. We believe that we are the largest independent producer of vacuum tool automation systems and a leading independent producer of tool software and controls. The Company has 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. 9001 certification, is headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass. and has direct operations 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. , Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. The Brooks' web site is www.brooks.com. Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. Founded in December of 1997, Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. is a full-service semiconductor manufacturing provider that offers customers leading-edge process technologies. Silterra's factory will be operational in 1Q 2001, ramping to 30,000 eight-inch wafers per month by 2002. Silterra will have immediate access to 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's capacity on the license technologies to qualify and develop customers. Silterra is headquartered in Kulim, Malaysia, with a sales and marketing office 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. . For further information on Silterra or its services, visit www.silterra.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: The foregoing discussion contains forward-looking statements relating to the expected benefits of Brooks Automation's products sold to Silterra and an expected increase in the number of semiconductor factories in Malaysia over the next few years. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, risks relating to the manner in which the customer uses the products and integrates the products with other components, the Company's dependence on the cyclical semiconductor industry, the turbulence experienced from time to time in both markets, the ability of the Company to continue to successfully develop and market new products and product enhancements on a timely basis, the Company's dependence on relatively few customers for a significant portion of its revenues, the Company's reliance on sales to OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers and the lengthy sales cycles of those customers, the highly competitive nature and rapid technological change that characterize the industries in which the Company competes, and other risks and uncertainties described in the Company's reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result, there can be no assurance that the Company's future results will not be materially different from those projected. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only of the Company's expectations as of the date of this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. |
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