Electroglas announces Horizon 4085X Prober with Integrated SMIF; New SMIF provides enhanced Class 1 cleanroom probing capabilities.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)--May 30, 1995--Electroglas 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 :EGLS EGLS Eastside German Language School (Issaquah, WA) ) announced today that it has introduced an enhanced version of its Horizon 4085X(R) automatic wafer prober The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. for high-speed, high-force probing of advanced devices on 8-inch wafers. The new system features an integrated standard mechanical interface (SMIF SMIF Standard Mechanical Interface SMIF Stream-based Model Interchange Format SMIF Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (Duke University) SMIF Stanford Management Internship Fund SMIF SMAD4-Interacting Transcription Factor ) that, when used along with the company's clean air management system (CAMS) option, allows transfer of wafers from cassettes without exposure to ambient facility air, creating a Class 1 environment internal to the prober. The enhanced system's SMIF-Indexer, made by Asyst Technologies Inc., is integrated into the Electroglas prober during manufacturing, so it is completely internalized. The previous version of the 4085X offered an external Asyst SMIF-Arm -- a robotic transfer system attached to the prober to create the desired isolation integrity. With the new SMIF option, the prober now provides a totally integrated cleanroom environment with no increase in the system's footprint on the sort floor. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Electroglas Director of Marketing Phillip Truckle, "By adding our CAMS and new integrated SMIF options to the Horizon 4085X, our customers get a Class 1 environment within the prober, which is especially suited for advanced applications such as parametric test, as well as production wafer sort. And because the new SMIF interface is completely internalized within the prober, we can give customers a cleanroom probing solution that offers substantial cost and space savings." Anthony Bonora, Asyst Technologies' senior vice president, research and development, added that the new 4085X/SMIF combination is an excellent example of the type of integrated solution the SMIF-Indexer was designed to help provide. "We created the SMIF-Indexer so that process-equipment manufacturers such as Electroglas could offer their customers a way to meet clean manufacturing and fab automation requirements. We are pleased that Electroglas has chosen to incorporate the SMIF-Indexer into its enhanced Horizon prober," said Bonora. Electroglas reports that a backlog of orders for the enhanced Horizon 4085X already exists. Customers include major chipmakers such as Hewlett-Packard and Zilog; both companies plan to utilize the system in next-generation manufacturing operations. About Asyst: Asyst Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of process control and automation systems that help semiconductor manufacturers reduce their integrated circuit production costs. The company's Asyst-SMIF and SMART-Traveler System (STS (Synchronous Transport Signal) The electrical equivalent of the SONET optical signal. In SDH, the European counterpart of SONET, STS is known as STM (Synchronous Transport Module). ) products are integral to the seamless factory automation of the future. Founded in 1984, Asyst Technologies Inc. is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., with facilities in the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Asyst's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the trading symbol Trading symbol See: Ticker symbol ASYT. About Electroglas: Founded in 1960, Electroglas Inc. is a world-leading supplier of the automated wafer-probing products that semiconductor manufacturers rely on to sort and classify integrated circuits. The company's products position semiconductor devices that are still in wafer form under contact probes to facilitate accurate, rapid, reliable testing, and manage information collected during the testing process. Electroglas' common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the trading symbol EGLS. -0- Note to Editors: SMIF-Indexer, SMIF-Arm, Asyst-SMIF, SMART-Traveler System and STS are trademarks of Asyst Technologies Inc. CONTACT: Electroglas Inc., Santa Clara Yolanda Ruiz, 408/727-6500 or MCA MCA in full Music Corporation of America Entertainment conglomerate. It was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Jules Stein as a talent agency. In the 1960s it bought Decca Records and Universal Pictures, and today it produces films, music, and television shows. Inc. 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