VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands, May 3, 2005 -
ASML Holding NV (ASML) today announced that it
had won a contract from ProMOS Technologies (ProMOS
or the Company), a leading memory manufacturer,
to supply lithography equipment to its new 300
mm wafer fab in Taiwan. This contract increases
the presence of ASML in the Taiwanese memory
market which produces one-fifth of the world's
DRAM devices. No financial details are being
disclosed.
“ProMOS is positioning itself to be a long-term
winner in the DRAM industry through technology
advancement in 300 mm fab and nanometer technology
node, said Dr. Len Mei, senior vice president
of the manufacturing group at ProMOS. “Our
new facility and the systems supplied by ASML
will be at full production for the anticipated
market growth in 2006.”
The
ProMOS Taichung facility expects to produce
80,000 wafers per month by 2009, giving it
the largest capacity of all 300 mm fabs. ASML
began installing equipment, including its TWINSCAN™ AT:850,
in April 2005.
"ASML has the largest installed base of advanced
300 mm systems in the world due to its superior
value of ownership. The high productivity delivered
by ASML systems will help strengthen the competitive
position of ProMOS,” said Eric Meurice, president
and CEO, ASML.
About ASML
ASML
is the world's leading provider of lithography
systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing
complex machines that are critical to the production
of integrated circuits or chips. Headquartered
in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is traded
on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ under the
symbol ASML.
About ProMOS
ProMOS Technologies (5387.TWO), Hsin-chu,
Taiwan, is a full-blown memory solution provider
and is renowned in the global DRAM industry
for its outstanding performance in manufacturing
excellence and technology advancement. The
company manufactures high-performance and high-density
commodity DRAM memory chips as well as pseudo-SRAM,
lower power SDRAM and MCM products. ProMOS
is listed on Taiwan GreTai Securities Market.
For more information, please visit www.promos.com.tw.
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