February 14, 2012
David Grant, President, Tamar Technology
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David Grant,
President, Tamar
Technology
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Since Tamar is primarily in the 3D IC segment of IC manufacturing, we
are seeing strong growth in 2012. More companies are entering this
segment and our metrology tools are needed at various points in the
process, both FEOL and BEOL.
We expect TSV adoption to drive process tool
and metrology tool purchases in 2012, but we expect 2012 is only the beginning
of the ramp. TSVs have been on the horizon for a long time, but real
adoption is going to begin in 2012. We expect that if we look back in ten
years, we will see 2012 as the year it all started.
Tamar does expect to hire across the company with all hiring
expected to be technical. Service and applications engineers will be the
biggest group, but we do expect to hire development engineers and technical
assembly personnel.
David Grant, President
Tamar Technology
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