ASM ATTENDED FIRST TOOL-IN CEREMONY TSMC’S NEW FAB IN ARIZONA
December 08 2022 - 9:00AM
ASM ATTENDED FIRST TOOL-IN CEREMONY TSMC’S NEW FAB IN ARIZONA
Phoenix, The
U.S.December 8, 2022
ASM International N.V. (Euronext
Amsterdam: ASM): ASM’s CEO
Benjamin Loh and CTO Hichem
M’Saad attended
TSMC’s first tool-in ceremony of
TSMC’s new fab in Phoenix on
December 6, 2022.
Arizona’s Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, who
visited ASM America on December 5, and President Joe Biden have
been meeting with semiconductor companies in the Phoenix area this
week. Phoenix has been home to ASM America’s headquarters since
1976, with over 750 employees and a key R&D center critical to
ASM’s leading ALD (atomic layer deposition) and epitaxy
technologies.
These official visits happened on the heels of
landmark measures by the US government to support the semiconductor
industry, passed at both the state and national level. In early
November, Arizona announced a historic $100 million investment in
the state’s semiconductor industry. In August, President Biden
signed the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act into law.
For more than 50 years, ASM has been driving
innovation, supporting the world’s top semiconductor manufacturers
with their relentless push for more powerful and power-efficient
semiconductors. One of ASM’s leading customers, TSMC held an event
on December 6 to celebrate TSMC’s milestone of the first batch of
state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing equipment to arrive in
its new fab in Phoenix. TSMC Arizona, targeted by TSMC to comprise
two leading-end fabs in the next years with an overall investment
of $40 billion, is located just 30 miles from ASM’s facility in
Phoenix.
President Biden attended TSMC’s new fab ceremony
and highlighted in his speech the contribution of TSMC Arizona to a
stronger semiconductor supply chain in the US and a vibrant
industry ecosystem in Arizona. Several tech industry leaders and
suppliers of TSMC were invited, including ASM, represented by its
CEO Benjamin Loh and CTO Hichem M’Saad, to celebrate TSMC’s new fab
milestone. The event included a first tool-in ceremony in which ASM
participated with its first ALD tool shipment that was delivered to
TSMC Arizona in November 2022.
About ASM International
ASM International N.V., headquartered in Almere,
the Netherlands, and its subsidiaries design and manufacture
equipment and process solutions to produce semiconductor devices
for wafer processing, and have facilities in the United States,
Europe, and Asia. ASM International's common stock trades on the
Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchange (symbol ASM). For more
information, visit ASM's website
at www.asm.com
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