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July 13, 2010
Crossing Automation Receives First Order for ExpressConnect™ Integrated Atmospheric and Vacuum Wafer-level Automation System
Fremont, Calif.-July 13, 2010-Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com), a leading supplier of efficient, cost-effective front-end and back-end automation solutions and engineering services to high volume semiconductor equipment manufacturers, today announced that it has received an order for its ExpressConnect™ integrated automation platform. The system includes Crossing's Spartan™ equipment front end module (EFEM), Shuttle-Lock™, Load-Lock, SEC controller and AltaStream's integration software. ExpressConnect™ will be implemented in the original equipment manufacturer's (OEM's) process tool targeting the 22 nm node. The win displaces the customer's current automation platform vendor and the system is scheduled to ship in September 2010.
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June 29, 2010
Crossing Automation Receives Four Key Patents for Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation
Fremont, Calif. - June 29, 2010 - Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com), a leading supplier of flexible, cost-effective front-end and back-end automation solutions and engineering services to semiconductor equipment manufacturers, today announced it has received four new patents. These patents cover atmospheric loadports, robotic wafer handling, and wafer handling end-effectors, further extending Crossing's leadership in wafer-level automation technology.
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June 08, 2010
Leading Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturer Selects Crossing Automation's Spartan EFEM for Second Generation Metrology Tool
Fremont, Calif. - June 08, 2010 - Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com), a leading supplier of efficient, cost-effective front-end and back-end automation solutions and engineering services to high volume semiconductor equipment manufacturers, today announced that its Spartan™ equipment front end module (EFEM) has been selected by a leading manufacturer of lithography and metrology equipment for its second-generation metrology tool.
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May 06, 2010
Crossing Automation Names Cecilia Hayes Vice President of Human Resources
Fremont, Calif. - May 06, 2010 - Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com), a leading supplier of efficient, cost-effective front-end and back-end automation solutions and engineering services to high volume semiconductor equipment manufacturers, today announced the hiring of Cecilia Hayes as vice president (VP) of Human Resources (HR). Her responsibilities include policy, compensation and growth.
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April 20, 2010
Crossing Automation Names Hakuto Corporation Exclusive Distributor for Japan
Fremont, Calif. - April 20, 2010 - Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com), a leading supplier of efficient, cost-effective front-end and back-end automation solutions and engineering services to high volume semiconductor equipment manufacturers, today announced that Hakuto Corporation (www.hakuto.co.jp) is the company's exclusive distribution channel in Japan as of April 1, 2010. Moving forward, Hakuto will offer sales, service and support for Crossing Automation's vacuum and atmospheric wafer automation products.
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March 23, 2010
Crossing Automation Announces New Appointments to Board of Directors
Fremont, Calif. - March 23, 2010 - Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com), a leading supplier of efficient, cost-effective front-end and back-end automation solutions and engineering services to high volume semiconductor equipment manufacturers, today announced that it has selected three new members to serve on its board of directors. These new members are Gidu Shroff, Dr. Peter Hanley, and Casey Eichler, each of whom brings highly relevant experience to help guide the company through a period of critical growth.
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March 16, 2010
Crossing Automation Introduces Enhanced Spartan EFEM; System Offers Production-Qualified 450 Wafers Per Hour Throughput
Fremont, Calif.- March 16, 2010 - Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com), a leading supplier of efficient, cost-effective front-end and back-end automation solutions and engineering services to high volume semiconductor equipment manufacturers, today announced that it has improved its Spartan™ equipment front end module (EFEM) performance, enabling it to achieve 450 wafers per hour (wph) throughput. The improved design was undertaken to address the requirements of high throughput semiconductor manufacturing processes such as strip/ash, clean and ion implant. The improved Spartan EFEM enables 100 percent process tool utilization due to its patented wafer engine atmospheric robot which offers the fastest available wafer exchange time of less than 2.5 seconds.
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March 09, 2010
Crossing Automation Sees Strong Growth in Front-End Automation Business; Unveils Plan to Bring End-to-End Vacuum and Atmospheric Wafer-Level Automation Offering
Fremont, Calif. - March 9, 2010 - Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com), today announced strong growth in orders for its range of front-end atmospheric wafer automation products, spurred mainly by multiple new design wins for its Spartan, Falcon and IsoPort technologies as well as strong repeat business for Spartan, Falcon, IsoPort, 200 mm products and RFID systems. Crossing added the front-end atmospheric component to its business through the acquisition of Asyst Technologies' atmospheric assets in September, 2009.
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November 12, 2009
Crossing Automation Announces Executive Management Team
Fremont, Calif. - November 12, 2009 - Following the recent acquisition of Asyst Technologies atmospheric products and intellectual property, Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com), today announced several key appointments to its management team including James McCormick, CFO; Randy Clegg, vice president of sales; Frank Kohoutek, vice president of operations; May Su, vice president of core products and Tim Lenihan, vice president of new products.
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September 2, 2009
Crossing Automation completes acquisition of Asyst Technologies' Atmospheric Wafer Handling and Automation assets and names Robert MacKnight as President and CEO
Crossing Automation, Inc. today announced that it has completed the legal process to acquire the assets of Asyst Technologies' atmospheric technologies and IP, including the sorter, EFEM (equipment front end module), load port and RFID products.
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August 27, 2009
Crossing Automation receives order from Tango Systems; Marks MEMS Market Entry for ExpressConnect™
Crossing Automation, Inc. today announced that it has received an order from Tango Systems to develop a custom wafer transfer platform solution.
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August 21 , 2009
Court Ratifies Crossing Automation's Acquisition of Asyst Technologies' Atmospheric Assets
Crossing Automation, Inc. (www.crossinginc.com) announced that the court has approved the Asset Purchase Agreement for the Asyst Technologies atmospheric technologies and IP assets including the sorter, EFEM (equipment front end module) and RFID products.
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May 5, 2009
Crossing Automation Introduces Wafer-Level Automation Engineering Services
Crossing Automation, Inc., today introduced its ExpressSolutions™ engineering services platform.
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March 16, 2009
Crossing Automation Takes Vacuum Wafer Handling to Next Level of Standardization
Crossing Automation's 'ExpressConnect' family of wafer-level automation components is designed to provide the industry with a standardized platform that delivers both high-reliability and high-throughput to vacuum wafer handling systems for semiconductor manufacturing.
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January 21, 2009
Crossing Automation Optimizes Vacuum Wafer Transport
Crossing Automation, Inc., today launched ExpressConnenct™, a modular building block family of automation components for vacuum wafer handling systems.
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January 21, 2009
Crossing Automation Takes Modular Track
Semiconductor International Crossing Automation Inc. said it has developed a standardized approach to integrated vacuum wafer handling systems.
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January 26, 2009
A reliability engineer's dream comes along
by Debra Vogler, senior technical editor, Solid State Technology
In a former life within the semiconductor standards and reliability engineering community, I advocated for the adoption of well-known reliability and maintainability engineering practices that have been used for decades in the aerospace and defense sectors.
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