Semitool
Semitool was a semiconductor manufacturing/capital equipment company based in Kalispell, Montana.
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| Type | Business Unit of Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductor |
| Founded | Kalispell, Montana (1979) |
| Headquarters | Kalispell, Montana |
Number of employees | 1157 (2007) |
| Website | www.semitool.com |
History
The company designed, developed, manufactured high performance and precision chemical processing equipment. Products included electrochemical deposition systems for electroplating copper, gold, solder and other metals; surface preparation systems for cleaning, stripping and etching silicon wafers; and wafer transport container cleaning systems.
Their main competitors were the Austrian company SEZ, Solid State Equipment Corp. (SSEC), and American FSI International.[1][2]
Applied Materials
In 2009, Semitool was acquired by Applied Materials.[3] It operates Semitool as a business unit and still operates the facility in Kalispell.[4]
References
- "Semitool Installs Third Single-wafer System at LETI". Solid State Technology Magazine. December 12, 2005.
- "Applied Materials to buy Kalispell firm". Daily Inter Lake. November 17, 2009.
- "Applied Materials to Buy Semitool in All-Cash Deal". The Wall Street Journal. November 17, 2009.
- Applied Materials Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine . accessed 2.21.2016.
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