12/05/11 ASM qualifies new higher-k gate process for 14nm manufacturing
ASM International today announced the successful demonstration of a new 14nm high-k gate dielectric process that achieved less than 6 angstroms equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) at a customer's 14nm R&D line, an improvement of about 40% from the current advanced nodes. The new high-k process improves device performance by enabling faster switching and lower leakage current, while reconfirming the extendibility of hafnium based high-k dielectrics. Using ASM's most advanced Pulsar ALD tool, a hafnium based material with a higher-k value than the current baseline was qualified at the customer's R&D facility.
10/28/11 ASMi reports Q3 2011 operating results
Highlights
* Net sales for the third quarter 2011: € 376 million, a decrease of 21% quarter-to-quarter and up 8% year-on-year.
* Result from operations for Q3: € 149 million
* Third quarter 2011 net earnings: € EUR 81 million compared to net earnings of EUR 50 million for the second quarter of 2011 and EUR 34 million for the third quarter of 2010.
Outlook
Customer cautiousness in Q3, that led to low order intake especially in Back-end, will not improve in Q4. Combined with present backlog levels, ASMI expects this will lead to lower sales for both Front- and Back-end operations in the current quarter.
07/28/11 ASM International reports Q2 2011 operating results
Highlights:
* Net sales for the second quarter 2011 were EUR 474 million, up 10% quarter-to-quarter and up 57% year on year. Excluding the acquired SEAS business, net sales increased by 9% quarter-to -quarter. Net sales of our Front-end segment were up 5% quarter-to-quarter while comparable Back-end sales increased by 11%.
* Result from operations increased from EUR 94 million in Q1 2011 to EUR 104 million in Q2 2011. The second quarter of 2010 showed a profit of EUR 80 million
* The Front-end segment increased its operating profit from EUR 18.7 million to EUR 20.8 million quarter-to-quarter. Q2 2010 showed an operating profit of EUR 3.6 million (including EUR 3.3 million restructuring charges)...
04/28/11 ASMi reports Q1 2011 operating results
Highlights:
· Net sales for the Q1 2011 were EUR 432 million, up 23% quarter-to-quarter and up 97% year on year. Excluding the acquired SEAS business, net sales decreased by 6% quarter-to -quarter.
· The Front-end segment increased from an operating profit of EUR 12.5 million (including EUR 1.8 million restructuring charges) to an operating profit of EUR 18.7 million quarter-to-quarter.
· The Back-end segment operating profit decreased from EUR 90.0 million to EUR 75.0 million quarter-to-quarter and includes a profit of EUR 11.5 million as a result of the acquisition of the former Siemens SEAS business. Compared to the first quarter of 2010, the operating profit increased by EUR 25.3 million.
· Q1 2011 net earnings were EUR 40 million compared to net earnings of EUR 25 million for Q4 of 2010 and EUR 4 million for Q1 of 2010.
03/03/11 ASM International reports Q4 2010 and full year 2010 operating results
Highlights:
* Q4 2010 net sales of EUR 352 million up 1% quarter on quarter and up 74% year on year
* Gross Margin in Q4 stable at 46% compared to Q3 and up against 40% in Q4 of 2009
* Result from operations increased from EUR 101 million in Q3 to EUR 103 million in Q4
* Front-end segment increased to a profit of EUR 13 million
* Back-end segment profit decreased from EUR 97 million to EUR 90 million quarter on quarter
Chuck del Prado, President and Chief Executive Officer: "The fourth quarter showed further improvements in the Front-end operations, where our results from operations (excluding restructuring) are now into the mid-tens. Moreover we saw, besides a sales increase of 35%, a further strengthening of our order book. The Back-end segment showed with a 36% result from operations as a percentage of sales again a solid performance...
10/29/10 ASMi reports 26% increase in Q3 2010 operating results
Highlights:
• Third quarter 2010 net sales of EUR 349 million up 15% quarter on quarter and up 94% year on year
• Gross Margin further improved to 46% in Q3, up from 44% in Q2 and 38% in the third quarter of 2009;
• Result from operations increased from EUR 80 million in Q2 to EUR 101 million in Q3.
• Third quarter 2010 net earnings were EUR 34 million compared to net earnings of EUR 48 million for the second quarter of 2010 and a net loss of EUR 16 million for the third quarter of 2009.
• Book to bill in the third quarter was 1.2. In the Front-end segment the book to bill was 1.9, in the Back-end segment the book to bill was 1.1. The backlog increased from EUR 557 million at the end of the second quarter, to EUR 587 million at the end of the third quarter
Chuck del Prado, President and Chief Executive Officer of ASM International: “After the strong order intake in the previous quarter, leading to new record sales in the third quarter, we saw a further strengthening of our backlog”.
08/31/10 ASM International publishes Interim Financial Report for the six-month period ended June 30, 2010
ASM International today published its Interim Financial Report for the six-month period ended June 30, 2010. This report includes an Interim Management Board Report, a responsibility statement and Consolidated Interim Financial Statements prepared in accordance with IAS 34 (Interim Financial Reporting). The Interim Financial Report comprises regulated information within the meaning of the Dutch Financial Markets Supervision Act...
07/29/10 ASMi reports second quarter 2010 operating results [ASMi]
Commenting on the results, Chuck del Prado, President and Chief Executive Officer of ASM International, said, "ASMI's second quarter performance reflects strong growth in both our wafer processing and assembly and packaging operations. Our Front-end business returned to profitability, we reached the cost reduction targets as set out in our global restructuring program...
05/21/10 ASM International N.V. announces results of annual general meeting of shareholders
ASM International today announced the results of its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held May 20, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In line with the ASMI Boards' recommendations as included in the Company's proxy statement, shareholders approved all resolutions as proposed to the Annual Meeting...
04/28/10 ASM International books repeat orders for plasma enhanced ALD Systems, broadening its ALD portfolio with new applications
ASM International N.V.today announced that it has received multiple repeat orders this year for its plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) systems from a leading memory customer in Asia for volume manufacturing at multiple fab lines. All systems will be used for dielectrics in double patterning applications for advanced lithography at the 3X technology node and below...
04/28/10 ASM International Q1 2010 operating results report sequential growth in both Front-end and Back-end operations
ASM International N.V. reports today its first quarter 2010 operating results in accordance with US GAAP: First quarter of 2010 net sales of EUR 219.1 million, up 8% from the fourth quarter of 2009 and up 146% from the first quarter of 2009…
04/27/10 ASM International N.V. nominates new CFO and new Supervisory Board Member
ASM International N.V. today announced the nominations of Peter van Bommel for appointment as CFO and as a member of its Management Board and Martin van Pernis for appointment to its Supervisory Board...
02/24/10 ASM International Extends Market Leadership for High-k ALD, Books two New Pulsar Orders for both R&D and Manufacturing Ramp
ASMi today announced two new Pulsar® orders from leading logic customers. One system was purchased by a new customer for the development of next generation advanced high-k metal gates, while the second is a repeat order from an existing customer planning to use Pulsar in its 32 nm high-k manufacturing ramp. Both tools include multiple Pulsar high-k reactors...
01/20/10 ASM Enables Power Devices with new PowerFill(TM) Epitaxial Technology
ASM International N.V. introduces its PowerFillTM epitaxial silicon (Epi Si) trench fill process today. The new process enables void free filling of deep trenches with doped, epitaxial silicon. PowerFill is an enabling process technology as it is about 3 times faster than competing processes, reducing manufacturing costs and creating an additional degree of freedom in power device design...
12/09/09 ASM International N.V. and Air Liquide Sign Agreement on Advanced High-K ALD Precursors
ASM International N.V.and the Air Liquide Group announce that their collaboration has led to the signature of a license and preferred supplier agreement for ALOHATM advanced precursors. Under the terms of the agreement, Air Liquide will have access to ASM's key processes and material intellectual property related to the deposition of advanced ultra-high-k insulator films such as Yttrium-doped Zirconia, STO and BST...
12/07/09 ASM International N.V. Features Innovative Atomic Layer Deposition Processes at Luncheon Seminar
ASM International N.V. announces that it will be hosting a technical luncheon seminar in Baltimore, Maryland, on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, the last day of the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). The seminar will address important materials, equipment and process innovations that enable high-k and metal gates in volume manufacturing, including processes using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Plasma Enhanced ALD (PEALD)...
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