Modern photolithography machines must deliver extraordinary precision on a repeatable basis, and in high volume production. In response to demands for increased throughput in the semiconductor ...

NIDEC Machine Tool America has rebranded its Additive Manufacturing division as Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, consolidating three distinct precision manufacturing platforms under a single ...

LONDON — As expected Axcelis Technologies Inc. (Beverly, Massachusetts) said Wednesday (Feb. 16) it has developed a single-wafer ion implantation tool. The company added that the first example of a ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fonon Corporation, a multi-market holding company, R&D center, equipment designer and manufacturer of advanced laser material processing systems for subtractive and ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Applied Materials Inc. today (July 10) rolled out a wafer inspection tool for 90-nm applications. The ComPlus-EV from Applied performs high-speed wafer inspection for darkfield ...

Advanced machine learning is beginning to make inroads into yield enhancement methodology as fabs and equipment makers seek to identify defectivity patterns in wafer images with greater accuracy and ...

Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Chinese chipmaking tools vendor Kingsemi launched a new generation of its wafer coating and developing machine the FT (III) 300 on Dec. 17. The machine adopts a symmetrical design, with 36 spin ...

Few would expect the future of artificial intelligence (AI) to depend on Eindhoven, a quiet Dutch town. Yet just beyond its borders sits the headquarters of ASML, the only company that makes the ...