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Cypress's SVTC Spurs Innovation with Delivery of 300-mm Wafers Using 65-nm Process Technology
Development Facility Offers Full Range of Advanced Lithography
Services and Tools to Enable Turnkey Solutions on 300-mm Silicon
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 7, 2005—
Silicon Valley Technology Center (SVTC), a division of Cypress
Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY), today announced the delivery of its
first 300-mm wafers. The wafers were produced at the 65-nm technology
node for third-party engineering groups using a newly installed
advanced lithography and metrology module.
The new toolset enables development of prototype 200- and 300-mm
wafers for novel silicon technologies and applications. Customers
taking advantage of this new capability range from IC companies to
semiconductor capital equipment and materials suppliers.
"Delivery of our first 300-mm silicon is a major milestone for
SVTC and validates our model of offering customers a capital avoidance
strategy for developing prototype silicon," said Bert Bruggeman,
SVTC's managing director. "The successful integration and operation of
our facility's new high numerical aperture 193-nm, 200- and 300-mm
lithography module adds unprecedented depth to our value proposition
by allowing customers to focus solely on technology innovation that
can be rapidly transferred to a production fab."
Anchored by the ASML TWINSCAN(TM) XT:1250 scanner, the facility
also houses Applied Materials Verity CD-SEM and the Archer AIM overlay
metrology system from KLA-Tencor. This infrastructure, coupled with
SVTC's broad technology partnerships enables the facility to provide
customers with turnkey 90- and 65-nm solutions on 300-mm wafers.
SVTC customers have access to Cypress's expertise, established fab
infrastructure and sub-90-nm processing capabilities. SVTC enables
third party engineering groups to take products from proof-of-concept
to manufacturing through a state-of-the-art toolset in a 16,000
square-foot clean room in Silicon Valley. Customers are also able to
tap more than 20 years of process development expertise. SVTC offers
best practices in fab process engineering, statistical process
control, quality management, failure analysis, and design for
manufacturing methodologies as part of its development toolbox.
About Cypress
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) provides high-performance
solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and
core communications system applications. Leveraging its process and
system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer
devices, framers and network search engines, along with a broad
portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, USB devices, timing technology
solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information
about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com.
Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress
Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
Contact:
Cypress
Matt Beevers, 408-545-6909
wpb@cypress.com
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