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UK fabless mixed-signal IC supplier Wolfson Microelectronics has contracted CSMC Technologies Corporation for foundry services from a 150mm fab facility in Wuxi, China.

UK fabless mixed-signal IC supplier Wolfson Microelectronics has contracted CSMC Technologies Corporation for foundry services from a 150mm fab facility in Wuxi, China.

Wolfson operations director John Urwin, reports: "We have received the first wafers from CSMC-Tech. Tests show that they exceed our performance and high quality expectations thus enabling us to ramp up production immediately across a number of products."

CSMC-Tech's Fab 1 provides mainly for logic, mixed signal, high voltage and non-volatile memory ICs down to 0.35micron processes.

ASM International reports that a major Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer has bought its critical process equipment for 300mm/90nm production. Deliveries of ASM's Eagle-12 single-wafer plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and Levitor 4300 rapid thermal processing (RTP) systems are scheduled to begin in Q4 2004.

The Eagle-12 PECVD tool will be used for multiple process applications, including ASM's Aurora low-k dielectric. Aurora is a hard "carbon doped oxide" low-k material that provides resistance to pressure from the chemical mechanical planarisation (CMP) process.

The Levitor RTP system uses a floating wafer principle and two massive hot blocks that heat the substrate through conduction. The gas layer between the wafer surface and reactor blocks self-centres the wafer and keeps it floating without any support. The 0.15mm thick gas enables uniform, ultra fast heating with rates up to 900degreesC/s.

Shanghai Blue Light Technology (SBL) has bought Veeco Instruments' GaNzilla metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) system. SBL will use the tool to produce high-brightness AlInGaN-based blue, cyan, and green light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The Chinese company is a leading provider of chip and wafer products to the Optoelectronics Project in China's National High Technology programme (Plan 863).

Advanced ID (AID) has met with government agriculture officials representing Malaysia and Singapore, and with the chief vet for the San Miguel of the Philippines, to demonstrate RF livestock identification technology (RFID) and to discuss the parameters for formal evaluations.

The company is hoping sell its products to meet the needs for protection from diseases such as Avian Flu, Foot and Mouth and Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE or "Mad Cow" in popular parlance). Avian Flu recently resulted in loss of human life in Thailand and Vietnam.

AID markets low frequency RFID microchips, scanners and a proprietary PETtrac database to the animal and biological sciences markets. AID also markets ultra high frequency DataTRAC tags, scanners and software solutions to minimise or eliminate the impact of biosecurity and food safety issues related to the livestock industry.

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