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DuPont Photomasks opens commercial production at Dresden
DuPont Photomasks has begun commercial production at its photomask facility in Dresden, Germany. The company claims it as the world’s most advanced such plant aiming at advanced photomask technologies for semiconductor devices with design rules of 65nm and below.
DuPont Photomasks has begun commercial production at its photomask facility in Dresden, Germany. The company claims it as the world’s most advanced such plant aiming at advanced photomask technologies for semiconductor devices with design rules of 65nm and below. The Dresden facility includes a 1400m2 clean room with advanced e-beam and laser photomask pattern generators, along with other advanced processing, inspection, metrology, cleaning and repair tools. The site employs more than 90 people.
The new facility is co-located with the Advanced Mask Technology Center (AMTC), a joint venture photomask research and development-centre owned by AMD, Infineon Technologies and DuPont Photomasks. By combining research and commercial production in the same clean room, DuPont Photomasks hopes to rapidly and seamlessly transfer highly innovative and optimised photomask technologies from development to volume production. DuPont Photomasks’ Dresden facility plans to eventually acquire the advanced equipment currently used for research and development at the AMTC for commercial production of even more advanced photomasks.
