AMD SUCCESSFULLY UTILIZES CANARY ESD SERVICE FROM DUPONT PHOTOMASKS AND ION TO PROTECT PHOTOMASKS IN FAB 25.(Company Business and Marketing)

Federal Computer Market Report, April, 2001

DuPont Photomasks, Inc. (Nasdaq:DPMI) and Ion Systems have announced that Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) successfully utilized the new Canary ESD Service developed by the two companies to qualify and mitigate electrostatic discharge (ESD) events on photomasks at its Fab 25 facility in Austin.

Using patent-pending photomask technology and processes created by DuPont Photomasks and Ion, the advanced ESD audit service is aimed at improving wafer yields by identifying and eliminating the sources of ESD in the photomask path. The Canary ESD Service became available in September 2000.

Photomasks are critical components in the semiconductor manufacturing process, and are used to pattern integrated circuits (ICs) on silicon wafers. Electrostatic discharge...

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