Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) today introduced Vistara™, Applied’s most significant wafer manufacturing platform innovation in more than a decade, designed to provide chipmakers with the flexibility, intelligence and sustainability needed to tackle growing chipmaking challenges.
The Vistara platform builds upon the company’s long history of leadership in semiconductor manufacturing platforms that include Endura®, Producer®, Centura® and Centris®, found in fabs around the world and used in the production of virtually every chip made. Vistara was developed over more than four years by hundreds of engineers from across Applied’s hardware, software, process technology and ecoefficiency design teams.
“Like its predecessors, Vistara is designed to be a trusted platform for many years of customer innovation, reliability and productivity,” said Dr. Prabu Raja, President of the Semiconductor Products Group at Applied Materials. “Vistara is being launched at an opportune time when the semiconductor industry needs unique solutions to address growing chipmaking challenges related to complexity, cost, cadence and carbon emissions.”
According to this morning’s news release, “Vistara’s unmatched flexibility helps chipmakers solve the growing complexity challenges of advanced chipmaking. The Vistara platform is able to use an unprecedented wide variety of chamber types, sizes and configurations from Applied and its partners. It can be configured with four or six wafer batch load ports and from as few as four to as many as 12 process chambers to address a wide variety of workloads.”
AMAT shares sank $2.69, or 1.9%, to $137.86.
