(October 20, 2006) LEUVEN, Belgium and SANTA CLARA, CA — IMEC transferred its copper-top interconnect process technology to production at National Semiconductor’s Malacca, Malaysia, facility. Copper-top interconnect — a low-resistance, post-passivation interconnect module— was designed to provide efficiency and smaller chip size for analog and mixed signal ICs.
(October 23, 2006) ST. FLORIAN, Austria — Austrian companies EV Group and Datacon Technology GmbH installed an EVG540C2W system at Datacon’s application laboratory, for advanced chip-to-wafer (AC2W) development work.