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CEO interview: Jerry Cuttini
Jerry Cuttini plans to make Aviza a major semiconductor tool player by merging the company with Welsh firm Trikon. Alex Kearns speaks to a chief executive officer with big ambitions.
Jerry Cuttini plans to make Aviza a major semiconductor tool player by merging the company with Welsh firm Trikon. Alex Kearns speaks to a chief executive officer with big ambitions.
Aviza chief executive officer Jerry Cuttini could be forgiven for wishing that the world was looking the other way when Aviza announced its intention of merging with Welsh firm Trikon Technologies last month.
When metrology business Nanometrics and defect detection system maker August unveiled a similar merger plan earlier in the year, the deal was quickly thrown into chaos by two industry heavy weights.
Perhaps worried about the emergence of a new force in the tools market, semiconductor equipment firms KLA-Tencor and Rudolph Technology put in their own bids to buy August, effectively scuppering August and Nanometric's merger ambitions.
Similarly, if a KLA or an Applied were suddenly to take an interest in Trikon, it could dash Cuttini's plans to turn Aviza into a major player in the deposition, plasma etch and thermal process equipment market.
Certainly, the last thing he needs between now and June - when Trikon's shareholders are due to make their decision over whether to back the transaction - are some big companies sniffing around.
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Aviza chief executive officer Jerry Cuttini could be forgiven for wishing that the world was looking the other way when Aviza announced its intention of merging with Welsh firm Trikon Technologies last month.
When metrology business Nanometrics and defect detection system maker August unveiled a similar merger plan earlier in the year, the deal was quickly thrown into chaos by two industry heavy weights.
Perhaps worried about the emergence of a new force in the tools market, semiconductor equipment firms KLA-Tencor and Rudolph Technology put in their own bids to buy August, effectively scuppering August and Nanometric's merger ambitions.
Similarly, if a KLA or an Applied were suddenly to take an interest in Trikon, it could dash Cuttini's plans to turn Aviza into a major player in the deposition, plasma etch and thermal process equipment market.
Certainly, the last thing he needs between now and June - when Trikon's shareholders are due to make their decision over whether to back the transaction - are some big companies sniffing around.
To read the rest of this article, subscribe to Eurosemi Bulletin – our recently-revamped electronic newsletter for the European Semiconductor Industry. For further information, click on this link