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to meet increased demand from the consumer and wireless markets, which will lead revenue growth in the foundry business to outpace the semiconductor industry in 2010 added Mr. Jelinek.


ISuppli also said it sees a number of acquisitions among foundries occurring this year, some of which have already been announced, as so-called Tier 2 foundries may need to extend capacity. Those types of deals “are sure to result in a dramatic reshaping of the foundry industry in 2010 and beyond,” iSuppli said.


Nanometrics Reports FYQ1 2010 Revenues increase by 270%


Revenue up to $37.2 million and gross margin up to 55.3% from 38.3%


Nanometrics ,a leading provider of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the fabrication of semiconductors, high-brightness LEDs, data storage devices and solar photovoltaics, have announced financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended April 3, 2010.


(In millions, except per share data)


Revenue Gross margin


Total Operating Expenses


Net Income (loss)


Earnings per diluted square


FYQ1 2010FYQ1 2009 $37.2


$10.1


55.30% $14.6 $5.9


$0.26


28.30% $11.9


($10.6) ($0.58)


Commenting on the FYQ1 results, President and CEO Dr. Timothy J. Stultz said, “Our business continues to benefit from technology purchases of several of our metrology platforms, in our customers’ ongoing push to shrink geometries and move to advanced process nodes. In the first quarter, we witnessed the emergence of capacity buys, which over the next several quarters should benefit us following the key tool-of-record product selections we have won over the last


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few quarters. We have also seen further growth in sales of our HB-LED metrology systems.” A live and recorded webcast of the conference call held discussing the FYQ1 results will be made available on the investor page of the Nanometrics website at www.nanometrics.com.


IPG Revenue up 13% for FY Q1 2010


Gross margin up 5% over same time last year and increased revenue attributed to sales pulsed lasers for materials processing applications, and low-powered lasers for medical applications


IPG Photonics Corporation manufactures high- power fiber lasers and amplifiers used in compound semiconductor processing and telecommunications and medical applications. It has announced its financial results for Q1 of fiscal year 2010 (ended March 31 2010) and results are below.


(In millions, except per share data) FYQ1 2010 FYQ1 2009 % Change


Revenue $51.2


Gross Margin 40.10%


$45.4


Operating income $5.3


Operating margin 10.40%


34.90% $2.0


4.50%


Net income to IPG $3.4


$1.3


Photonics Corporation Earnings per diluted share $0.07


$0.03 167% 133%


Dr. Valentin Gapontsev, IPG Photonics’ CEO commented on the first quarter, “We increased gross margin by more than 5 percentage points year over year to 40% due to improved contribution margin, manufacturing absorption and product mix. We are pleased with the improvement in IPG’s operating leverage and


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