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Corporate
Overview
Asyst Technologies, Inc.,
founded in 1984, provides automation solutions optimized for the
needs of our global customers in the semiconductor, flat panel
display, and related industries. As the most experienced fab automation
company, we are dedicated to helping our customers gain competitive
advantage through the intelligent application of our wide range
of productivity- and yield-boosting technologies. Asyst solutions
are used in every 300mm wafer fabrication facility in the world
and in the vast majority of 200mm facilities that use the standard
mechanical interface (SMIF) manufacturing protocol. The world’s
top 20 chipmakers and top 20 equipment companies all use Asyst
products.
Our solutions provide protection, swift transport, high-performance
handling, and efficient management of wafers throughout the chip
manufacturing process. We are recognized as the pioneer and market
leader in atmospheric equipment front-end solutions that provide
a clean, high-performance interface between chip making equipment
and the factory environment. Asyst is a leading provider of automated
material handling systems (AMHS) that store and transport wafers
through the hundreds of manufacturing steps involved in the fabrication
of today’s advanced chips. We are the leading provider of
Auto-ID solutions that enable the tracking and management of wafers
and related information in the fab. In addition, we offer wafer
sorters and a suite of software products designed to facilitate
and enhance the management of wafers and information in modern
factory environments.
Asyst’s global service and support capabilities assure maximum
uptime, swift customer response, and optimal performance of customers’ total
automation solution. With experience in every aspect of fab automation
that now spans three decades, we offer customers service solutions
that can dramatically improve overall fab productivity.
- Asyst's isolation
products have been adopted by every
major chip manufacturer in the world and have driven industry-wide
standards for these technologies in both 200mm and 300mm manufacturing
environments.
- Asyst is the leading global supplier of load
ports that open the carrier and present wafers to the process tools.
- Asyst
is the leading global supplier of both radio-frequency and
infrared Auto-ID technology for identifying and tracking wafers
throughout the fab.
- Asyst develops and markets advanced wafer-handling
robotics and is a leading supplier of wafer
sorters.
- Asyst now offers
its customers FasTrack™, the true next-generation
AMHS, as well as Asyst-Shinko's leading 300mm AMHS solution.
- Asyst's
global supply chain strategy includes outsourcing most of its
manufacturing operations to Solectron Corporation, the only
two-time winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
This assures world-class quality, delivery and reliability,
allowing Asyst to focus on its core competency of developing
innovative
automation technology that enhances customers' productivity.
- Asyst
is the leading global supplier of 200mm and 300mm SEMI Standards-based
connectivity
solutions to both equipment suppliers and integrated
device manufacturers enabling total fab automation solutions.
Asyst Technologies became a publicly traded company in 1993. Its
common stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the
symbol: ASYT.
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To provide the worldwide semiconductor and related industries with high quality,
integrated solutions using isolation technology, inventory management and automation
systems, to improve customer productivity and profitability. |
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