COMPANY INTROUCTION

Lam Research Corporation has been a major provide of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the world’s semiconductor industry for more than 25 years and is the market share leader for plasma etch. The company’s innovative technologies empower customers to build advanced, high-performance integrated circuits. Lam is a global U.S. corporation that maintains a worldwide network of facilities, employing more than 3,000 people and supporting an installed base of more than 9,000 systems.

Lam’s reputation as an organization where talented people can learn, achieve, and be rewarded is the result of innovative employee policies and corporate culture. The company is organized around a set of Core Values designed to encourage individual growth through mentoring and empowerment, while promoting the success of the organization as a whole.

Lam is committed to quality and environmental health and safety, and maintains an active corporate philanthropy program to enrich the communities where our employees live and work. Over the years, Lam has received numerous awards for product excellence, customer service, and community involvement, including a 2003 Semiconductor international Editor’s Choice Product Award for the Company’s 2300 Exelan○R dielectric etch system. Lam was also named one of the 50 best places to work in 2003 by Silicon Valley’s San Jose Magazine.

TECHNOLOGY

Through its history, Lam has been the key technology innovator in the semiconductor etch marketplace. Lam has consistently delivered technology breakthroughs that have advanced the state of the art for semiconductor etch and enabled leading semiconductor manufacturers to meet their technology roadmap goals.


Lam’s major etch technology innovations include;

- Dual Frequency Confined TM (DFCTM) technology for dielectric etch
- Transformer Coupled Plasma TM source technology
- The first commercialization of an inductively coupled plasma source technology with planar coil
- 2300TM Etch Series with 200/300 mm capability
- Decoupling of plasma density and bias power for conductor etch
- Waferless AutoCleanTM in situ clean strategy performed after each wafer pass
- Unique technologies that improve the uniformity of critical dimensions for today’s most advanced applications

Established Market Leadership

The Company’s focus is on the removal and clean applications area, one of the largest segments of wafer processing. Lam is currently the market share leader in the plasma etch segment of this market. Customers are many of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers, including logic and memory producers as well as foundries. Due to changing manufacturing requirements, the selection of next generation process equipment is a critical component of their future success. By addressing these challenges, Lam’s differentiated products and services continue to drive market share gains.