KLA-Tencor and Soitec announced a joint program to improve the quality.

KLA-Tencor and Soitec announced a joint program to improve the quality, yield, and take away from of production of SOI wafers used in high- performance, low-power-consumption IC applications. According to company spokespeople the joint progress to maturity partnership (JDP) is expected to provide wafer and IC manufacturers with the industrys first wafer inspection combination of parts to form a whole that is specifically optimized for SOI and fittings the sensitivity requirements for the 90-nm and 65-nm nodes. The first of these recent inspection systemswhich will be based forward KLA-Tencors industry-leading Surfscan SP1is awaited to ship to Soitec in early 2004 In