Semitool
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IndustrySemiconductor
FoundedKalispell, Montana (1979)
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| Company type | Business Unit of Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductor |
| Founded | Kalispell, Montana (1979) |
| Headquarters | Kalispell, Montana |
Number of employees | 1157 (2007) |
| Website | www.semitool.com |
Semitool was a semiconductor manufacturing/capital equipment company based in Kalispell, Montana.
The company designed, developed, manufactured high performance and precision chemical processing equipment. Products included electrochemical deposition systems for electroplating copper, gold, solder and other metals; surface preparation systems for cleaning, stripping and etching silicon wafers; and wafer transport container cleaning systems.
Their main competitors were the Austrian company SEZ, Solid State Equipment Corp. (SSEC), and American FSI International.[1][2]
