Building on Its Decade of Leadership in China, Toppan Photomasks Expands Shanghai Site.ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Toppan Photomasks, Inc. today announced plans to expand its Shanghai facility, adding capacity to produce photomasks used to manufacture semiconductor devices with 180nm design rules, and additional lithography lithography (lĭthŏg`rəfē), type of planographic or surface printing. It is distinguished from letterpress (relief) printing and from intaglio printing (in which the design is cut or etched into the plate). and inspection capacity for 250nm-and-above products. The expansion, the fourth since the company opened the facility in 1996, will add clean room space and enhanced process, inspection, and repair capabilities to supply current demand and forecasted growth in China's increasingly vital market. The factory, which has tripled its output since opening, currently produces photomasks for geometries down to 250nm. The fast-track project is expected to make the expanded clean room available in the third quarter of 2006, and to ramp additional capacity and capabilities in the fourth quarter. "Building on our 10 years of success serving China's wafer (1) A small, thin continuous-loop magnetic tape cartridge that has been used from time to time for data storage and specialized applications. (2) The base unit of chip making. It is a slice taken from a salami-like silicon crystal ingot up to 12" (300mm) in diameter. fabs and fabless design companies, this expansion leverages our Shanghai employees' proven expertise and familiarity with the industry to cement our leadership in that market," said Dave Murray Dave Murray can refer to:
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. customer needs." Toppan Photomasks foresaw China's emergence as a major semiconductor producer 10 years ago, and built the Shanghai site in a joint venture with Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT). The facility serves customers in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Wuxi and other cities. It provides the company with unmatched familiarity with the needs of the Chinese semiconductor industry as well as the ability to link customers seamlessly with Toppan's global network of manufacturing, R&D and customer-support sites. About Toppan Printing Founded in 1900, Toppan Printing has branched into seven diverse business fields, including security cards, commercial printing, publications printing, packaging, industrial materials, electronics and optronics Optronics, or optoelectronics in its less abbreviated form, is the science and technology making use of optics and electronics. It is sometimes synonymous with photonics, however the latter has a lesser emphasis on electronics. . In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006, Toppan posted revenues of 1,548.2 Yen billion (more than US$13 billion), an increase of 9.5 percent as compared to the previous fiscal year, and ended the year with approximately 36,000 employees. For more information visit www.toppan.co.jp. About Toppan Photomasks Toppan Photomasks, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. a diversified global company with revenue in excess of $13 billion in fiscal 2006. Together with the photomasks business of Toppan Printing, the company forms the world's premier photomask An opaque image on a translucent plate that is used as a light filter to transfer an image from one device to another. See chip. provider. Utilizing operations within the industry's most advanced and largest network of manufacturing facilities, Toppan Photomasks offers a comprehensive range of photomask technologies and research and development capabilities to meet the increasingly sophisticated and divergent di·ver·gent adj. 1. Drawing apart from a common point; diverging. 2. Departing from convention. 3. Differing from another: a divergent opinion. 4. product-and-service requirements of the global semiconductor industry. Toppan Photomasks is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. For more information visit www.photomask.com. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion