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ASML announced details of a fourth customer in the tough Japanese market. Matsushita Electric Industrial (MEI) has ordered ASML's TWINSCAN lithography system for 300mm production. MEI manufactures consumer products under the Panasonic brand. The sale marks a milestone in ASML's expansion within the Japanese market, which traditionally has been dominated by local lithography companies, namely Nikon and Canon.

ASML announced details of a fourth customer in the tough Japanese market. Matsushita Electric Industrial (MEI) has ordered ASML's TWINSCAN lithography system for 300mm production. MEI manufactures consumer products under the Panasonic brand. The sale marks a milestone in ASML's expansion within the Japanese market, which traditionally has been dominated by local lithography companies, namely Nikon and Canon.

Matsushita will use ASML's equipment for volume production of system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices at a fab located in Uozu, Japan. In fact, the sale marks the eighth location in Japan at which ASML systems have been installed. Other successes in the Japanese market include strategic alliances with lithography processing track manufacturer Tokyo Electron (TEL) and photomask producer Dainippon Screen Manufacturing. Hitachi High-Technologies serves as the exclusive sales agent for ASML in Japan and was instrumental in securing the MEI order.

FSI International reports that "a leading European IC manufacturer" has purchased multiple ANTARES CX CryoKinetic cleaning systems after a successful demonstration of defect removal in an on-site evaluation program.

The systems will be used on advanced devices for both front-end-of-line (FEOL) and back-end-of-line (BEOL) defect removal on planar and surface patterned structures. The order marks the 13th fab to use ANTARES. The CryoKinetic process uses inert gases frozen at cryogenic temperatures to clean the wafer.

Effectively, the system fires micro-snowballs at the wafer. The CryoKinetic process replaces scrubber technology, which uses large amounts of water and sometimes requires wet chemicals too. Once the snowballs heat up, the inert gas just evaporates, leaving a dry wafer.

STATS ChipPAC has selected Agilent Technologies as its strategic test supplier in an agreement worth up to $125mn. Under the terms of the two-year deal, Agilent will provide its 93000 SOC Series test system, services and support to STATS ChipPAC and collaborate on strategic plans for new markets and next-generation opportunities.

STATS ChipPAC wants to expand its capacity and capabilities in providing digital, mixed-signal SOC (system-on-a-chip) and RF integrated circuits  (ICs) testing services.

The Agilent 93000 SOC Series is capable of testing high-speed devices and a broad range of mixed-signal and RF applications. The equipment can be configured to span a wide range of applications that may require ultra-high-speed digital data rates up to 10Gbits/sec.

Taiwanese IC packaging service company Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) is using Ansoft's HFSS, Q3D Extractor and AnsoftLinks simulation products for IC packaging design and model extraction.

The software analyses complex high-speed and high-frequency packaging structures including quad flat pack (QFP), ball grid arrays (BGA), pin grid arrays (PGA), and chip scale packages (CSP). In addition, Ansoft products are used to design controlled impedance transmission lines, both single-ended and coupled, that exist within the packages.

Electrical models produced by Ansoft's software products are delivered to ASE's customers so that precise circuit performance can be determined prior to production. Furthermore, optimisation of the package design can be performed in the software to provide optimal system performance.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has bought Molecular Imprints' Imprio 100 Step and Flash Imprint Lithography (S-FIL) equipment. The system delivers high resolution, sub-micron alignment, and 3-dimensional replication, to customers seeking cost-effective, sub-100nm lithography.

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