12 May 2011

Ultratech announces HB-LED Asia Technology Center in Taiwan

Ultratech Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which supplies photolithography and laser-processing systems used to make semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), has announced its Asia Technology Center (ATC) in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

The integrated Class 1000 cleanroom provides the capability for leading-edge process development and in-depth demonstrations of Ultratech’s Sapphire 100 lithography system, which is designed for customers in the HB-LED market. To further support the firm’s Singapore international operations facility (opened last December), the center aims to enable cost-effective, leading-edge process development that can be transferred between sites or across Ultratech’s large customer base throughout the Pacific Rim.

Scheduled to open in second-half 2011, Ultratech says that the ATC furthers its ongoing commitment to meet its international customers’ needs with advanced technology solutions at the lowest cost-of-ownership.

“With many of our customers located in the Pacific Rim, opening our Asia Technology Center in Taiwan enables us to work with leading companies to develop processes and lithography equipment advances to reduce the cost of manufacturing LEDs,” says chairman & CEO Arthur W. Zafiropoulo. “In addition, the facility will be used to provide yield research as well as low-cost patterning solutions,” he adds. “Ultratech remains vigilant in its search for ways to provide low-cost solutions to support the significant growth in the HB-LED markets. We look forward to leveraging our Asia Technology Center to help speed the development of cost-effective lithography processes to support our customers' product and technology roadmaps for new and emerging markets.”

Ultratech says that, building on the cost and performance advantages of its 1500 platform, the next-generation Sapphire 100 lithography system provides high operational flexibility due to the benefits of the 1x lens design and market-specific technology options for high-volume, HB-LED manufacturing. The Sapphire 100 was designed specifically to meet the wide range of lithography needs and cost advantages for the HB-LED manufacturing industry, the firm adds.

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