Varian Semiconductor Introduces VIISta vMask(TM)
Tuesday June 6, 9:00 am ET
GLOUCESTER, MA--(MARKET WIRE)--Jun 6, 2006 -- Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. (NasdaqNM:VSEA - News) today introduced a new breakthrough capability for its VIISta series ion implanters called the "VIISta vMask(TM)." This new product is used in integrated circuit development and offers significant development cost reductions for customers. By precisely masking portions of a silicon wafer, VIISta vMask enables customers to run multiple implant splits on a wafer. The implant proximity mask capability provided by VIISta vMask shortens the time to results, utilizes fewer wafers, and reduces the impact of wafer-to-wafer variation. This will significantly reduce the costs of developing new technology nodes and chip designs.
Gary Dickerson, Varian Semiconductor's Chief Executive Officer, said, "The increasing cost to develop next generation devices is a major problem in the semiconductor industry and implants needed for transistor engineering is a large part of this increasing R&D budget. The VIISta vMask enables customers to put multiple implant experiments on a single wafer and can reduce the number of implanted wafers by 75%. Customers have told us this can save them more than $10 million per year. We are working with our customers to provide innovative solutions that drive cost reduction, increase yield, and improve device performance."
VIISta vMask is available exclusively for VIISta series ion implanters. The hardware is automated to allow for either vMask or standard implanter operation modes. The VIISta vMask product can be shipped with new VIISta ion implanters and is also available as a field upgrade.
Varian Semiconductor's VIISta line of ion implanters is the only production-proven single wafer platform solution for all implant segments. All of the VIISta ion implanters boast higher productivity and superior particle performance, which translates into higher yield. They feature the Varian Control System (VCS(TM)), the Varian Positioning System (VPS(TM)), a common IHC source architecture and a common single wafer endstation. This high degree of commonality across the VIISta platform provides flexibility in managing capacity, product mix changes, spare parts and training. Over 400 VIISta ion implant systems have been shipped to IC manufacturing fabs worldwide.
About Varian Semiconductor
Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. is the leading producer of ion implantation equipment used in the manufacture of semiconductors. The Company is headquartered in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and operates worldwide. Varian Semiconductor maintains a web site at www.vsea.com. The information contained in the Company's web site is not incorporated by reference into this release, and the web site address is included in this release as an inactive textual reference only.
Note: This release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For this purpose, the statements concerning the Company's performance, market share and technology leadership, technological capabilities and benefits are forward-looking statements and any statements using the terms "believes," "anticipates," "expects," "plans," or similar expressions are forward-looking statements. There are a number of important risks and factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking statements. These include, among others, volatility in the semiconductor equipment industry; economic conditions in general and as they affect the Company's customers; significant fluctuations in the Company's quarterly operating results; the impact of rapid technological change; the Company's dependence on the development and introduction of new products; the Company's concentration on ion implantation systems and related products; concentration in the Company's customer base and lengthy sales cycles; the highly competitive market in which the Company competes; risks of international sales; foreign currency risks; and general economic conditions; and other factors identified in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company cannot guarantee any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievement. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.
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