Fortrend Ships New Reticle Automation Equipment.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2003 Fortrend Corp., the automation supplier for the semiconductor industry, has shipped the first of several reticle ret·i·cle n. A grid or pattern placed in the eyepiece of an optical instrument, used to establish scale or position. [Latin r automation solutions to Korea. This is the second order Fortrend has received for reticle automation equipment to Asia and increases their automation solutions for 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. manufacturers. The equipment allows photomask manufacturers to adopt 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 technology to existing and new fabs for maximum flexibility. As the cost of photomask sets skyrockets with line widths of 0.13 microns and smaller, manufacturers need to increase their yields to be competitive in the marketplace. One way to do this is to isolate the reticles from contamination and other environmental effects by placing them in SMIF pods or RSPs. The best solution to quickly and reliably move reticles in and out of equipment and pods is to use flexible robotics such as the Plus500-ret and the Lamina II reticle sorter. "These orders mark the initial stages of automation in the photomask shops. As more and more semiconductor manufacturers move to 0.13 and smaller geometries, more and more photomask facilities will implement automation," said Chris Wu, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Fortrend Corp. Fortrend Corp. is a leading global supplier of cassette, wafer and photomask automation equipment. In addition to the Plus500-ret and Lamina LAMINA - A concurrent object-oriented language. ["Experiments with a Knowledge-based System on a Multiprocessor", Third Intl Conf Supercomputing Proc, 1988]. II sorter, Fortrend offers mass wafer transfer systems, SMIF load/unload equipment and automated front ends for 200mm and 300mm wafers. Fortrend's customers include microelectronics, photomask and solar cell solar cell, semiconductor devised to convert light to electric current. It is a specially constructed diode, usually made of silicon crystal. When light strikes the exposed active surface, it knocks electrons loose from their sites in the crystal. manufacturers, and semiconductor equipment suppliers throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. Additional information on Fortrend Corp. can be obtained by contacting Fortrend at 404 Tasman Dr., Sunnyvale CA 94089 or accessing its homepage at http://www.fortrend.com. |
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