Semitool Recieves Order for 90nm Raider Clean System
Monday July 14, 7:31 am ET
Semitool's Wafer Surface Preparation System Installed for 130 nm Production and Development of 90nm and Beyond Wafer Level Packaging
KALISPELL, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 2003-- Semitool, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMTL - News), announced today that Motorola, Inc.'s (NYSE:MOT - News) Semiconductor Products Sector has purchased Semitool's most advanced single wafer surface preparation equipment, known as the Raider Clean System.
The system will be installed at Motorola's Dan Noble Center in Austin, TX.
Motorola anticipates using the system for cleaning applications for its 130nm semiconductor production as well as for process development for its 90nm and beyond cleaning processes. Motorola expects to install the system at its Dan Noble Center within the next 60 to 90 days.
"The Raider Clean System is a high-volume manufacturing platform used by semiconductor makers for cleaning, etching and stripping applications on 150mm, 200mm and 300mm silicon wafers. The fully automatic system can be configured with as many as ten processing chambers, making the Raider Clean the industry's most productive single wafer processor available today," said Ray Young, manager of the single-wafer surface preparation division at Semitool.
Designed to meet the industry's most advanced wet processing challenges, Semitool's Raider Clean System has already been adopted by several of the world's top semiconductor manufacturers for their latest fabs and R&D facilities.
About Semitool, Inc.
Semitool is a worldwide leader in the design, development, manufacture, and support of high performance, single-wafer and multi-wafer batch wet chemical processing systems for use in the fabrication of semiconductor devices. The company's primary suites of equipment include electrochemical deposition systems for electroplating copper, gold, solder and other metals; surface preparation systems for cleaning, stripping and etching silicon wafers; and wafer transport container cleaning systems. The company's equipment is used in semiconductor fabrication front-end and back-end processes, including wafer level packaging.
Headquartered in Kalispell, Montana, Semitool maintains sales and support centers in the United States, Europe and Asia. The company's stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol SMTL. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.semitool.com.
Semitool is a registered trademark of Semitool, Inc.
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Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Semitool's business in general is subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from those projected in such forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the cyclicality in the semiconductor industry, fluctuations in Semitool's operating results, rapid technological change, the introduction of competing products and technologies and market non-acceptance of Semitool's new products and new applications for existing products, as well as, other risk factors related to our business contained in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2002 and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events.
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