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 |