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Entrepix, Inc. has quadrupled its cleanroom space at its Tempe,
Arizona facility with the addition of a 5,000 square foot facility to
contain the company’s extended equipment and services. Increased demand
for CMP-related services has meant that the company’s current facility
size was unsuitable and merited an expansion.
In addition to the extra cleanroom space, the Entrepix facility will
now house a showroom for refurbished CMP and metrology equipment, a
class 10,000 space for the refurbishment of post-CMP cleaners and an
increased capacity for CMP processing.
“Over the past year the
industry has increasingly recognized that the majority of semiconductor
manufacturing is still done at 90nm and larger technology nodes on
200mm or smaller wafers,” said Tim Tobin, President and CEO of
Entrepix. “Now called ‘mainstream semiconductor manufacturing’ or
sometimes the ‘More than Moore’ segment, this year’s ITRS noted that
the industry is at an inflection point, and recognized the divergence
of mainstream and leading-edge manufacturing. Naturally, this creates a
market demand to develop equipment, processing and technology solutions
that will support long-term utilization of the very cost effective
mainstream semiconductor manufacturing platforms.”