Wafer Quotes

You don't just want a mask image that will give you an acceptable pattern at exact focus and dose. You want the pattern on the wafer to be acceptable over a reasonable range of focus and dose errors and variations in resist. - Andrew Moore

Within this thin wafer of bread is caught up symbolically the labor of plow and of sowing, of harvest and threshing, of milling, of packing, of transportation, of financing, of selling and packaging. Man's industrial life is all there. - Wilford O. Cross

While unit demand is going up at roughly 50 percent, the bit demand, meaning the number of wafers we have to make, is going up at about 100 percent. I believe that's going to keep the shortage going at least through this year, and well into next year - possibly through all of next year. - Jeff Katz

When I presented a 0.3-millimeter by 0.3-millimeter chip at ISSCC in 2003, I was thinking about the use of SOI wafers as the next step. - Mitsuo Usami

We want to help make the wafer-size transition as efficient and cost-effective as possible, by involving a wide range of industry players-especially the equipment supplier community. - Scott Kramer

We continue to receive strong orders from our broad customer base across leading edge and mainstream technology nodes. As a result, our revenues and the average selling price of our wafers increased during the fourth quarter. - Richard Chang

We are taking this step in close collaboration with Singapore's Economic Development Board, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, and other customers who operate in Singapore. As wafer process technology continues to advance below 90nm, IC packaging will increasingly require advanced flip chip and wafer level solutions. - Oleg Khaykin

We are pleased to add Tower Semiconductor to our list of qualified vendors. We have set stringent qualification standards for all of our wafer suppliers and Tower has passed on all levels. - Paul Franklin

We are pleased to add AOS to our expanding base of customers. We look forward to supporting AOS with superb wafer processing along with a wide range of services including turnkey solutions and module development. - Jae Song