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5 June 2014
OEM Group and SEMSYSCO settle lawsuit
Semiconductor capital equipment providers OEM Group of Phoenix, AZ, USA and Semiconductor Systems Corporation (SEMSYSCO GmbH) of Salzburg, Austria have entered into an agreement that settles all litigation between the parties.
OEM Group provides new and re-manufactured systems, specialized upgrades, genuine parts, certified service, software licensing, and process application development. Its LEGENDS technology portfolio is based on exclusive intellectual property acquired from semiconductor brands, including: P5000, Tegal Etch, Sputtered Films Endeavor, Equinox, MRC Eclipse, AGHeatpulse, Varian Sunset, Lam AutoEtch and Applied Materials-Semitool surface preparation equipment. OEM Group also provides foundry services designed for piezoelectric AlN films, yield-optimization and process development.
Semsysco designs and manufactures standard and custom manual, semi-automated and fully automated process equipment – both wet chemical and vapor – for single-wafer, batch and large format substrates. Applications include etch and clean (including gallium arsenide and silicon), photoresist strip, metal lift-off, wafer thinning and reclaim. .
As part of the settlement, SEMSYSCO has agreed to refrain from selling 200mm and below manual batch products in the USA for five years. However, there is no restriction on SEMSYSCO selling any other products in the USA or selling any products outside the USA. All other terms of the settlement are confidential.