news digest ♦ RF Electronics


These orders compliment an installed base of Plasma- Therm VERSALINE and Versalock systems at this site for multiple plasma-processing steps that includes both deposition and etch.


David Lishan, Director-Technical Marketing explains, “Based on a history of repeat orders, Plasma-Therm has been a key supplier to wireless compound semiconductor manufactures for many years.


AFM image (1 x 1 µm2) of a polished c-plane wafer. Ra surface roughness < 0.3 nm


Follow-on orders are especially encouraging as they confirm we are continuously providing solutions that meet the expectations of our customers. On time solutions, whether for capacity or technology needs, are a result of close collaboration with our customers.”


Skyworks Q2 FY13 revenues up 16.6 percent Y-o-Y


The firm’s revenues went up from $364.7 million in Q2 FY2013 up to $425.2 million in Q2 FY2012 and incomes also went up year over year


low absorption coefficient values up to the band edge (peak at 2.8 eV - reason for yellowish coloration of bulk AlN grown by PVT)


Wireless chip producer orders more Plasma-Therm tools


The VERSALINE processing tools will support backside GaAs RF power amplifier and switch chip production


A leading US wireless compound semiconductor device manufacturer has placed capacity driven, follow-on orders with Plasma-Therm LLC for VERSALINE wafer processing, etch modules.


The process systems will support RF power amplifier and switch chip production with advanced backside GaAs via formation. These chipsets are used primarily in handsets and other RF applications.


The process modules include Plasma-Therm’s EndPointWorks technology and unique active


feedback chamber temperature management to ensure maximum etch yield, reproducibility and uptime productivity.


122 www.compoundsemiconductor.net June 2013


“As our better than seasonal results and growth outlook demonstrate, Skyworks is gaining margin-rich content and share across mobile applications while capitalising on adjacent home automation, networking, medical, smart grid and machine-to-machine vertical markets,”


Skyworks Solutions, Inc., an innovator of analogue semiconductors, has reported second fiscal quarter 2013 results for the period ending March 29th, 2013.


Revenue for the quarter was $425.2 million, up 17 percent when compared to $364.7 million in the second fiscal quarter of 2012 and exceeding the company’s guidance of $420 million.


On a GAAP basis, operating income for the second fiscal quarter of 2013 was $68.7 million and diluted earnings per share was $0.32.


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