Applied Materials Ships 5,000th Producer Platform
02 July 2018 - 9:30PM
Applied Materials today celebrated the 20th anniversary and
5,000th shipment of the Producer® platform, a manufacturing
system that helps make virtually every chip in the world.
The Producer platform was launched in July of 1998 to help
enable chips to run faster by changing their wiring from aluminum
to copper, which is a better conductor. The transition was needed
by the industry to drive the performance and power improvements
associated with Moore’s Law, but it also required many additional
steps that could have made the progress unaffordable. To help,
Applied Materials designed every element of the Producer platform
to give customers the highest performance at the lowest possible
operating cost.
As a result, the Producer platform became an industry workhorse
that has since taken on more tasks to help drive Moore’s Law and
enable mass adoption of electronic products including notebook PCs,
smartphones and wearable electronics.
“With the landmark Producer platform, Applied achieved something
that had never been done before on this scale: create a highly
flexible architecture that can support multiple technology
generations and still remain incredibly productive,” said G. Dan
Hutcheson, CEO of VLSIresearch. “Today, the Producer platform
continues to allow chipmakers to imagine and build chips in
entirely new ways. Congratulations to Applied Materials on this
impressive milestone for one of the most important process systems
in the semiconductor industry.”
Integrated Process Platform
The Producer platform was originally conceived as a single
process system focused on chemical vapor deposition, and it became
an industry benchmark. Over the years, Applied expanded the
capabilities of the platform to include etch, selective removal and
treatment technologies. Today, more materials are reaching the
physical limits of classic Moore’s Law scaling. In response,
Applied is pioneering development of new materials beyond the
periodic table that are more difficult to use but enable continued
improvements in chip performance and power efficiency. The Producer
platform is rising to the challenge as it can now be used as an
integrated process platform, offering various combinations of
deposition and treatment, deposition and etch, or deposition and
selective removal, in the same system and under vacuum.
Producer by the Numbers
- 10 technology nodes supported to date, from 180nm to 5nm
- 20 years enabling industry inflections including copper, strain
engineering, high-k metal gate, FinFETs and 3D NAND
- 1.9 billion square meters of silicon processed by the Producer
platform – an area equivalent to 30 times the size of
Manhattan
Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) is the leader in materials
engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and
advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials
at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to
transform possibilities into reality. At Applied Materials, our
innovations make possible the technology shaping the future. Learn
more at www.appliedmaterials.com.
Contact:Ricky Gradwohl
(editorial/media) 408.235.4676Michael Sullivan (financial
community) 408.986.7977
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