FSI
International (ticker: FSII,
exchange: NASDAQ) News Release
- 6/9/03
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FSI International Announces DNS Acquires Rights
to the "Lithography Breakfast Forum" Held Annually at SEMICON
West
Forum to be held July 15, during SEMICON West 2003 in San
Francisco
MINNEAPOLIS (June 9, 2003) – FSI International, Inc.
(Nasdaq: FSII) is pleased to announce that Dainippon Screen
Mfg. Co. Ltd. (DNS) has acquired the rights and will host the
Lithography Breakfast Forum, which is held annually each year
during the SEMICON West tradeshow. This year’s Lithography
Breakfast Forum marks the 10th annual anniversary of the event.
The forum is scheduled for Tuesday, July 15, from 7:30 a.m.
to 10:00 a.m. at the San Francisco Marriott, which is conveniently
located next to the Moscone Center at 55 Fourth Street.
On March 17, 2003, FSI reported it would exit the resist processing
market and transition out of its Microlithography business
to focus exclusively on
Surface Conditioning products and services.
“The annual Lithography Breakfast Forum provides an ideal venue for presenting
views pertaining to industry challenges and the related lithography technology
issues,” stated Don Mitchell, FSI International chairman and chief executive
officer. “We are excited that DNS wants to keep this important forum alive
and will host the breakfast in its 10th year.”
“DNS recognizes the Breakfast Forum as the premier lithography event at
SEMICON West and we are proud to continue this tradition. The forum is an excellent
setting for technology leaders to present and discuss lithography challenges
vital to the progression of our industry,” stated George Petricich,
DNS Electronics (USA) vice president of Product Marketing. “The theme
of this year’s session will focus on the capability and extension of
193nm (ArF) photolithography for high volume manufacturing of 45nm devices.”
For further details and to register for the 10th Annual Lithography
Breakfast Forum, see the DNS Electronics (USA) website at
http://www.dnse.com or contact the forum chairman, Charles
Pieczulewski, product manager for DNS tracks, at 408-523-9140.
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan), is a $1.3
billion company quoted on the Tokyo stock exchange. Established
in 1943,
it is one of the leading suppliers of semiconductor fabrication
equipment including: coat/develop tracks, batch & single
wafer cleaning and surface preparation systems, lamp/flash anneal,
and metrology tools. It is also a manufacturer and supplier
of flat panel display production equipment, prepress and printing
equipment. Dainippon Screen corporate website http://www.screen.co.jp/
FSI International Inc., a global supplier of surface conditioning
equipment, delivers economic and technical advantages for current
and emerging microelectronics manufacturing challenges. Using
the company's broad portfolio of products, which include immersion,
spray, vapor and CryoKinetic systems for wafer cleaning, customers
are able to efficiently achieve their goals. FSI’s customers
include microelectronics manufacturers located throughout North
America, Europe, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
FSI is a 2002 recipient of the VLSI Research 10 BEST Award.
In seven of the last ten years, FSI has been recognized for
its superior customer satisfaction in the category of Small
Suppliers of Wafer Processing Equipment.
FSI maintains a Web site at http://www.fsi-intl.com
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