Companies Will Collaborate on Process Technologies
Intermolecular Inc. announced on July 11 that it will collaborate with Globalfoundries on research and development of a wide range of semiconductor process technologies. Under a newly signed multiyear collaborative development program (CDP) and intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement, Globalfoundries will use Intermolecular’s high productivity combinatorial (HPC) technology to accelerate the creation of process modules that will be integrated into manufacturing lines worldwide. Much of the development work will be performed at Intermolecular’s HPC R&D Center in San Jose, CA, in close collaboration with the foundry’s operations in Germany, New York, California, and Singapore.
“We’re especially pleased to work with Intermolecular to accelerate development not just for our most advanced technology nodes, but also for mature production lines, where we provide a wide variety of scalable plug-in modules to help our customers meet the widest possible range of market opportunities.” said Gregg Bartlett, Globalfoundries’ senior vice president of technology and research and development.
Intermolecular’s HPC technology enables generation and analysis of experimental data with significantly greater speed and efficiency than a traditional development line. Researchers and engineers from both companies will work side by side, using Intermolecular’s full suite of Tempus wet-workflow development systems and Tempus AP-30 platforms, which can perform ALD, CVD and PVD deposition processes. Intermolecular’s Informatics software allows rapid analysis of the resulting data, and quick identification of the most promising results.
“We’re very excited to be working with Globalfoundries” said David Lazovsky, Intermolecular president and CEO. “This is an extensive and diverse engagement, covering technology nodes from 45 nm down to 14 nm, spanning multiple process and device integration applications.”
–Ed Korczynski