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Eliminating Waste
An average wafer spends about 80% of its production time idle. Meanwhile, customers' costs rise and critical products cease to flow through fabs. Applied enables agility by providing equipment with low-variance, small-lot handling, and embedded intelligence. By applying these improvements, customers can drive a 50% reduction in cycle time, doubling a factory’s operating margin and reducing overall waste.
Fab Solutions
What does making semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, and solar panels have in common? They all require sophisticated factories, or "fabs" that are energy- and capital-intensive. For more than 40 years, Applied's innovative fab solutions have helped customers generate strong, rapid returns on investment while also acting as responsible users of electricity, water and other natural resources.
All In One Step
Building a semiconductor chip is like making an elaborate sculpture — prepare the surface, etch, clean, and then etch some more — on a nano-scale. The secret recipe — repeating the steps as fast and accurately as possible. Applied’s Siconi Preclean — an advanced process that effectively removes oxidized silicon, cleans, and smoothens surfaces all in one step! Results — customers achieve higher switching speeds, expedited queue time, lower current leakage, and reduced power usage.
Classic Systems
As the leading supplier of refurbished semiconductor equipment, Applied Materials extends the overall life of systems while providing customers differentiated quality products — products that can be used in niche markets such as logic chips for toys. Reusing is more than child’s play.
Critical Component Cleaning
Repeatable, predictable cleaning and refurbishment of semiconductor process equipment are essential to minimizing defects and reducing waste throughout manufacturing. Applied Materials’ advanced cleaning processes extend the life of critical components while providing high purity testing of materials for contamination control — all part of accelerating factory productivity.
Particulate Management
Featuring the only combustion wet-abatement technology, Applied Materials’ abatement systems effectively destroy greater than 99% of the by-product perfluorocompound (PFC) gases — allowing semiconductor, flat panel display and solar cell manufacturers to meet the most stringent environmental emission targets, while also reducing operating costs. Taking steps to be green just got a little more profitable.
Conserving Resources
Silicon wafers are typically the single largest consumable cost contributor for a semiconductor fab. Using Applied Materials’ wafer reclaim services can extend the lifecycle of test wafers by over 45%, enabling 11 uses per wafer instead of just one — reducing costs while conserving the world’s limited supply of silicon, that’s progress!
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