Amtech Announces $7.5 Million Solar Order

TEMPE, Ariz.--(Business Wire)--
Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASYS), a global supplier of
production and automation systems and related supplies for the
manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today
announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., has
received a $7.5 million follow-on solar order for its diffusion
processing systems from an existing customer based in Asia.

J.S. Whang, President and Chief Executive Officer of Amtech,
commented, "We are very pleased to receive this sizeable follow-on
solar order in the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific region, which further
demonstrates the increasing acceptance we are seeing for our solar
products from our worldwide base of solar customers. We continue to be
optimistic about the strength of our marketing pipeline and
opportunities to grow our solar business into fiscal 2009."

About Amtech Systems, Inc.

Amtech Systems, Inc. manufactures capital equipment, including
silicon wafer handling automation, thermal processing equipment and
related consumables used in fabricating solar cells and semiconductor
devices. Semiconductors, or semiconductor chips, are fabricated on
silicon wafer substrates, sliced from ingots, and are part of the
circuitry, or electronic components, of many products including solar
cells, computers, telecommunications devices, automotive products,
consumer goods, and industrial automation and control systems. The
Company's wafer handling, thermal processing and consumable products
currently address the diffusion, oxidation and deposition steps used
in the fabrication of solar cells, semiconductors, MEMS and the
polishing of newly sliced silicon wafers.

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Amtech Systems, Inc.
Bradley C. Anderson, 480-967-5146
Chief Financial Officer
or
MKR Group, Inc.
Todd Kehrli or Jim Byers, 323-468-2300
Investor Relations
asys@mkr-group.com

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