Trazar to Present at 3rd Annual SEMATECH Symposium on Productivity and Semiconductor Fab Cost Reduction.

RF Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) Leader To Present And Offer Key Service Technology That Significantly Lowers Total Cost of Ownership To Member Companies

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Trazar Corporation, a long-time Silicon Valley RF power manufacturer has been invited to contribute and present at the 3rd International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) Symposium on Manufacturing Effectiveness, Oct. 9-11 in Austin, TX . The program is a three-day exploration of breakthrough strategies for productivity and cost-cutting in semiconductor fabs. Trazar will be joining a long list of the world's top semiconductor fabs including: AMD, H-P, Freescale, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Micron, NEC, Panasonic, Philips, Renesas, Samsung, Spansion, TI and TSMC.

Trazar-manufactured Automatic Impedance Matching (AIM) networks provide MTBF in excess of 40 months. This is the industry's bellwether for RF reliability. Based on this, Trazar will be presenting details of its T5000-series enhancement program for the legacy Applied Materials P5000-series RF Matching networks at the ISMI Symposium. This new program allows Trazar to enhance the older P5000 product with updated and longer MTBF T5000 RF technology.

Trazar has developed a method of achieving this innovation while remaining totally transparent to the plasma process. "By utilizing this Trazar-proprietary service, with the longer T5000 MTBF, semiconductor manufacturers can extend the life of their current process equipment without often-recurring down-time and the resulting productivity and yield losses associated with the older P5000-based systems," said Gary Ater, Trazar's Vice President of Marketing. Trazar offers this T5000 enhancement with a 12 month Trazar factory warranty, typically 2-4 times longer than other service options.

Trazar

Trazar, Inc. designs, manufactures and services RF Power Systems for the semiconductor, analytical and medical equipment industries. The company's flagship product, Automatic Impedance Matching (AIM) Units for RF Power applications, boast an industry-leading and proven 44 months MTBF. Trazar's service group provides repair and maintenance services for its own and other's RF generators and AIMs. The company also offers specialty contract manufacturing for high-quality, moderate volume customers that want access to its RF and Power experience and expertise. Trazar was founded in 1987 and is based in Santa Clara, Calif., with repair and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.trazar.com.