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Order Win: ATMI purchases Intermolecular’s Tempus materials development suite |
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Sep 11, 2007 at 02:59 PM |
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 ATMI has purchased Intermolecular’s complete ‘Tempus’ Fluids-based ‘High-Productivity Combinatorial’ (HPC) workflow for accelerated research and development (R&D) practices after discovering that its use enabled an improved process efficiency solution for a major foundry in Taiwan.
“The future progress of the semiconductor industry requires the ability earlier on in the development phase to make rapid advances in IC materials,” said Doug Neugold, ATMI Chief Executive Officer. “I’m enthusiastic about melding ATMI’s process efficiency mindset, strong customer relationships and technology portfolio with Intermolecular's technology to deliver faster resolutions to our customers’ materials challenges. Our rigorous, data-driven R&D process will be bolstered by the capabilities of the Intermolecular Tempus workflow, giving our customers better materials answers faster, for a fraction of the R&D cost they are used to paying.”
“The capabilities required of new materials, and the demands of device manufacturers, are growing at seemingly exponential rates,” said Tod Higinbotham, Senior Vice President and General Manager of materials for ATMI. “With Intermolecular’s Tempus workflow, we are creating high-throughput materials R&D that is allowing us to assess hundreds — or thousands — of research combinations in the time it used to take to assess a dozen. This research efficiency helps us speed customers’ time to market while reducing their development costs.”
The Tempus Fluids-based workflow includes a series of tools for applying HPC methods to a variety of applications, such as self-assembly processes, cleans, wet strip, wet etch and electroless deposition.
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