Low-k comments from SBN:
eoenabled.com
Can a company introduce a product too early? ATMI doesn't seem to think so. This week the Danbury, Conn., firm banged the drums and declared that it is the first supplier to offer "a comprehensive management solution" for low-k materials in chip making. The new offering bundles organosilane chemical vapor deposition (CVD) low-k chemicals, bulk chemical delivery systems for plant-wide distribution, low-k life-safety leak detectors, CVD low-k abatement systems, and technical support and service.
ATMI believes it can get a jump on this market because "key technology decisions in the low-k world will happen before the year's end," says Neil Hendricks, chief technologist. He says that ATMI already has solved CVD low-k purity, delivery, sensor, and abatement issues. Its new product will support low-k manufacturing systems for dual damascene copper processes, he says. ATMI cites a Dataquest forecast that predicts low-k tool revenues will grow to $444 million in 2004, up from "nearly nothing" in 1998. |
