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Carl Zeiss SMT has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Pixer
Technology to boost its product offerings in the photomask sector. The
acquired company will be part of Carl Zeiss SMT’s Semiconductor
Metrology Systems Division (SMS). Pixer Technology is a privately held
firm. . The acquisition is expected to close during the third quarter
of 2008, the company said.
“The acquisition of Pixer Technology is a further step in Carl
Zeiss SMT´s long-term strategy to widen its technology portfolio by
offering innovative products to enable advanced semiconductor
manufacturing,” states Hermann Gerlinger, Member of the Carl Zeiss AG
Board and President and CEO of Carl Zeiss SMT.
“Pixer’s
contribution of new technical capabilities like the short pulse laser
processing of mask blanks to improve the CD uniformity of photomasks
and established products like CDC and Galileo perfectly complement the
Carl Zeiss product portfolio of mask qualification, repair and
metrology systems,” commented, Frank P. Averdung, Managing Director of
Carl Zeiss SMT’s SMS Division.
