Profile: Axcelis Technologies Inc (ACLS.OQ)

ACLS.OQ on NASDAQ Stock Exchange Global Select Market

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Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (Axcelis), incorporated on December 21, 1995, designs, manufactures and services ion implantation, dry strip and other processing equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor chips. The Company sells to semiconductor chip manufacturers worldwide. The ion implantation business comprised approximately 76.7% of its revenue during the year ended December 31, 2012, with the remaining 23.3% of revenue derived from its dry strip and other processing systems. In addition to equipment, the Company provides aftermarket service and support, including spare parts, equipment upgrades, maintenance services and customer training. In December 2012, the Company sold to Lam Research Corporation (Lam) the intellectual property rights and other assets relating to its dry strip systems product line.

Ion Implantation Systems

Ion implantation is a principal step in the transistor formation cycle of the semiconductor manufacturing process. An ion implanter is a large, technically advanced system that injects dopants such as arsenic, boron or phosphorus into a silicon wafer. These dopants are ionized and therefore have electric charges. With an electric charge they can be manipulated, moved and accelerated with electric and magnetic fields.

Axcelis offers a line of high-energy, high-current and medium-current implanters for all application requirements. The Optima XEx combines Axcelis' production RF Linac high energy, spot beam technology with a high-speed, single wafer end station, enabling unmatched throughput. Axcelis' advanced spot beam ensures that all points across the wafer see the same beam at the same beam angle. Axcelis’s single wafer product for high current applications is the Optima HDx. In 2012, Axcelis shipped its Purion M medium current ion implant system. Axcelis has recently not had a competitive offering in this market space.

Dry Strip

The Company’s dry strip machines, also called ashers, use microwave and radio frequency energy to turn process gases into plasma, which then acts to clean the surface of the wafer by removing the photoresist and unwanted residue. Axcelis has offered a full line of dry strip tools that cover the entire range of customer applications

Aftermarket Support and Services

The Company offers its customers aftermarket service and support throughout the lifecycle of the equipment it manufactures, as well as equipment the Company previously manufactured. The service and support that the Company provides include spare parts, equipment upgrades, and maintenance services. The Company provides varying levels of sales, service and applications support out of its field offices to customers located in 32 countries. Revenue generated through its service and support business represented about 61.0%, of revenue in 2012. In 2012, Ulvac Techno, a Japanese company, began providing aftermarket services and support services for its products in Japan.

The Company competes with Applied Materials, Inc., SEN, Nissin Electric Co., Ltd. and Advanced Ion Beam Technology, Inc.

Company Address

Axcelis Technologies Inc

108 Cherry Hill Drive
BEVERLY   MA   01915-1053
P: +1978.7874000
F: +1978.7873000

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