During the first quarter, wafer sales reached 49.2 million Euros, an 25.7% sequential increase over the previous quarter and 60.4% year-on-year. Sales volumes rose across all major wafer diameters, and underlying sales growth rose to 68% vs. the same period one year ago. Demand for 300-mm SOI wafers drove a 277% increase in 300-mm sales year-on-year. As a result, for the first time, 300-mm wafers accounted for the majority of all wafer sales &#8212 representing 54% vs. 23% for the same period last year.

Soitec licensing revenues also benefited from the industry’s adoption of SOI. For the first quarter of 2005-2006, the Group reported royalties of 0.7 million Euros &#8212 a 126% increase over the prior first quarter. At the same time, the Group realized a strong sequential increase in its Picogiga-related sales, which rose 50% to total 1.3 million Euros.

(July 20, 2005) Mountain View, Calif. &#8212 MEPTEC is adding LSI Logic’s VP of packaging design and development, Maniam Alagaratnam, as the keynote speaker for its next one-day technical symposium, titled “Semiconductor Packaging Strategies: Improving Costs, Productivity and Total Service to Customers,” to be held August 25, 2005 in San Jose, Calif.