Profacture Receives Order for a Refurbished

Tegal® 901e System from Advanced Wireless Semiconductor

Beaverton, OR, September 16, 2005 -- Profacture Corporation, today announced that they received an order for a Refurbished Tegal® 901e from Advanced Wireless Semiconductor.

This order marks the first time Profacture and AWSC have worked together. This system will add capacity and augment their existing 9XX systems. Delivery of the system is scheduled for the Fourth quarter of 2005 as well as system startup and performance testing.

About Advanced Wireless                  

Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company [AWSC] is a GaAs HBT and pHEMT/IPD Pure Foundry Service Company. We utilize 1) the most-cost effective mainstream GaAs manufacturing process technology 2) optimal process equipment, device layout and material structures for both wireless and optoelectronic communication applications. Our goal is to provide the best quality and on-time delivery GaAs HBT/pHEMT/IPD Foundry Services and will further extend these technologies into GaAs Solar Cell business.

AWSC offers the high reliable InGaP/GaAs HBT process for both power amplifier (PA) and gain block (GB) circuit designs. We also offer the high performance GaAs pHEMT process for both switch (SW) and low noise amplifier (LNA) circuit designs. Our transistors have been proven with a MTBF of more than one million hours. We ensure the good process control monitor (PCM) and high wafer probe yield to satisfy our customer's performance and yield requirements.

Currently, Our Fabrication facility has overall capacity of 2,100 4-inch wafers and 400 6-inch wafers outs a week. We are gradually converting the Fab from 4-inch to 6-inch with a total capacity of 3,000 6" wafer outs a week by Q3 2011.

AWSC was established in April of 1998 and located at Tainan Science-Based Industrial Park of Taiwan. Now we have total employees of 480 with various technical and production backgrounds. Our foundry service group provides Design kits with both device layout rules and design models.

AWSC is an ISO-9001 and ISO-14001 certified Semiconductor Company. The quality and safety is our top management philosophy. We continuously work on the process improvement and new technology development to meet the customer requirements. Our goal is to become a world class GaAs Foundry Company.

About Profacture
Profacture Corporation, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, is a leading designer, re-manufacturer and supplier of components, and integrated electromechanical assemblies for Tegal 9XX series etchers. More information is available on the Internet at www.profacture.com

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