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WIN Semiconductors Orders Temescal Systems from Ferrotec for GaAs Fab Expansion

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Ferrotec Corporation of Santa Clara, California USA announced that GaAs foundry company, WIN Semiconductors Corp., has selected its Temescal systems for its next stage of expansion. According to Ferrotec, WIN Semiconductors ordered multiple e-beam evaporators for metal deposition. Ferrotec notes that a total of $8.4M in orders for its Auratus enhanced UEFC series Temescal systems were placed in 2015.

Ferrotec points out that WIN has preferred Temescal e-beam systems since its inception in 1999. For their latest fab expansion, WIN has selected multiple Auratus enhanced deposition systems. Auratus is Ferrotec newest generation of patented Temescal UEFC series evaporators that use contact free, magnetic drive High Uniformity Lift-off Assembly (HULA) wafer carriers for the fabrication of HBT (Heterojunction Bipolar) and pHEMT (Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility) transistors.

Ferrotec says that in addition to using the company’s patented HULA planetary rotating domes and conic chambers its Temescal systems boast a lower cost of ownership.

“Continued growth of mobile devices and those advances supporting the Internet of Things (IoT) provide WIN with a good market platform for this next phase of growth. With approximately 60% of market share in GaAs foundry, WIN has the proven track record of manufacturing GaAs and GaN devices with highly complex designs,” said Steve Chen, senior vice president of WIN. “Likewise with Temescal systems representing over 60% of e-beam evaporator market share in the GaAs market, Ferrotec is also a leader that has demonstrated innovative technologies to address the technical requirements of GaAs device manufacturers. It is therefore natural for the leader of the GaAs foundry business to select the forward-looking Ferrotec for the highly demanding work of meeting the increasingly sophisticated wireless and IoT markets.”

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