GIGAPHOTON honored with 2015 “Toshiba Partnership Award”

Gigaphoton Inc., a lithography light source manufacturer, today announced that the company has been recognized with a 2015 Partnership Award from Toshiba Semiconductor & Storage Company’s Yokkaichi Operations, a world production base of NAND flash memory devices. Gigaphoton received this award for its efforts in developing innovative solutions for reducing the consumption of rare gas, thereby contributing to a great reduction of materials cost.

Gigaphoton has been providing semiconductor device manufacturers with its green innovations, including its “Helium-Free Purge Process” and “eTGM Solution” that allow a great reduction in the consumption of rare gases, including helium and neon, used for the excimer lasers incorporated into semiconductor lithography tools. Gigaphoton’s green innovations have been highly recognized by Toshiba: Mr. Tomoharu Watanabe, General Manager of the Yokkaichi Operations awarded a trophy and certificate to Gigaphoton Inc., on January 6.

“We are honored to receive this award from one of the leading semiconductor device manufacturers, Toshiba Semiconductor & Storage Company’s Yokkaichi Operations,” commented Hitoshi Tomaru, President and CEO of Gigaphoton, “Last year, our green innovations were well accepted, and we were designated as a major vendor by the world’s six leading semiconductor device manufacturers. We are committed to maximizing our effort for providing technologies and products that are more productive for our customers.”

Gigaphoton developed a helium-free purge process that uses nitrogen, thereby reducing helium consumption by 99 percent (compared with the conventional purge process), and started marketing this process in 2013. In addition, the company developed the eTGM Solution, a new technology that reduces neon gas consumption by up to 50%; in 2014, it began providing this function free of charge until the supply of neon gas has returned to the normal condition. These technologies have been systematically developed and provided bases on the EcoPhoton program promoted by Gigaphoton to reduce the consumption of resources. The fruits of this EcoPhoton program have been highly recognized by the users, and currently are being introduced by major DRAM manufacturers.

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