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Silicon Genesis Corporation (SiGen), Campbell, Calif., developer of unique Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) wafer technologies, is expanding its new SOI wafer fab in San Jose, Calif., and is now shipping sample quantities of SOI wafers to customers in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including wafer manufacturers and chipmakers. SiGen expects the facility to achieve an eventual capacity of 20,000 wafers per month. The facility is the first bonded thin-SOI (less than 1 micron) fabrication plant in North America.
Francois Henley, president and CEO of Silicon Genesis, said, "Our fab is demonstrating the production capability, cost reduction and quality improvement advantages of SiGen's proprietary SOI process technology. This is a significant advance over...