Danvers-based Ibis Technology Corp. has received an order for an Ibis
i2000 oxygen implanter from SUMCO, a Japanese manufacturer of silicon
wafers, valued at approximately $7 million.
This is the second i2000 implanter purchased by SUMCO. In addition,
Ibis has completed a purchase agreement with SUMCO that will govern
the general contractual terms of all future SUMCO orders.
Ibis has received three orders to date from wafer manufacturers for an
i2000 implanter, the first having been placed last year by an unnamed
chipmaker in the United States. That deal was worth &8 million, and
the first SUMCO order was valued at $6 million.
Ibis officials say they expect to ship the system at the end of the
first quarter of 2006 depending on customer acceptance of the tool at
Ibis' facility.
The Ibis i2000 oxygen implanter is designed to be a high-throughput,
high-volume production tool for manufacturing 300-millimeter
Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) wafers. Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) is a
manufacturing technology where an insulating layer is created within a
silicon wafer, isolating the top layer of silicon where the active
transistors will be manufactured from the rest of the bulk silicon
wafer.
Ibis Technology stock was trading at mid-morning for $1.81, up 36
cents from its close yesterday.
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