Our business is built upon our engineering technicians’ talents. Yes, our ISO9001 registration means we have world-class processes and procedures in place, but our people drive our success because they work together on any robot/controller that comes to our doors. This past spring, two talented folks attended the Women in Semiconductors session sponsored by semi.org. And yes, Mary Domingo and Trenice White attended West this year. Did they follow up on the discussions from Women in Semiconductor and ask even more questions about silicon carbide? You bet! We all greatly appreciated their ability to translate a brief conference into an ongoing dialog with our customers to help us understand trends in the wafer substrates that our repaired robots handle. Thank you, ladies.

The primary objective of the show this year was to introduce the Mag 7 to our service offerings. The classic, ever-popular Wafer Breaker 5000 gave many folks the excuse to hang out for a while at the booth so we could discuss their Mag 7 needs. Pleasantly we had folks from Asia, America, and Europe ask about supporting regional fabs with a large installed base of that excellent etch process tool, the Lam 2300. After a few gallons of coffee, we empirically determined that Lam must have sold buckets of these tool sets 😊. Of course, there are some good old aluminum interconnects etchers, but an extremely huge installed base of dielectric etch tools. The Kiyo innovations introduced in the 2013 timeframe, that brutal 100:1 depth: diameter etch ratio, are still being used today.