SilTerra Offers Failure Analysis Services to Local High-Tech Companies and Universities

 

Kulim, Kedah (14^th Sep 2009)

Home-grown semiconductor wafer foundry, SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd (SilTerra), officially offers in-house Failure Analysis (FA) services to local high-tech companies and universities. SilTerra’s failure analysis laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art FA equipment which enables our customers to perform detailed construction and failure analysis on their products as well as university research projects.

 

Besides the conventional FA techniques such as SEM-EDX, RIE, Liquid Crystal, EMMI, VBA, SilTerra advanced FA techniques – like TEM, FIB, and Nano-probing – can perform sophisticated and complex product analysis in the nanometer range.  Moreover, Silterra trained FA personnel apply industry recognized FA methodologies which are applicable to CMOS, LED and Thin Film technologies.

 

“Silterra is committed to support the national mission to boost the high-tech knowledge base among our skilled workforce. With the easy access of advanced FA services for local high-tech companies and universities, not only can we enhance product research and development activities in Malaysia but also provide convenient and lower business support cost structure.” said, Dr. Kamarulzaman bin Mohamed Zin, Chief Executive Officer of SilTerra.

 

“With our initiative to open up FA services, we wish to attract more high-tech companies to relocate or setup their design centre in Malaysia. They can outsource their FA service to Silterra for new product construction analysis. As the result, this would help to spur more design activities in Malaysia.” he said. 

 

SilTerra, a strategic investment by Khazanah Nasional Berhad, is part of Malaysia’s effort to move up the high-tech semiconductor value chain.  SilTerra FA lab is open 24x7 and committed to meet demanding customer expectations.

 

Abbreviation

SEM : Scanning Electron Microscopy

EDX : Energy Dispersive X-ray

RIE : Reactive Ion Etching

EMMI : Emission Microscopy

VBA : Voltage Bias Amp

TEM : Transmission Electron Microscopy

FIB : Focused Ion Beam

CMOS : Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

LED : Light Emitting Diode

  

About SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd:

 

Market driven, SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a semiconductor wafer foundry offering major foundry compatible CMOS logic, high-voltage and mixed-signal/RF technologies down to 90nm feature size. The broad choice of mature technologies and IP’s, flexibility and capabilities enable SilTerra to serve a broad range of customers from fabless to IDM in highly dynamic consumer electronics and communication applications. SilTerra’s wafer fab has a designed capacity of 40,000 eight-inch wafers per month. 

 

Environmentally vigilant, SilTerra delivers award winning, world-class performance to its customers seeking flexible capacity, competitive advantages and around the clock customer support. SilTerra is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certified. Founded in 1995, the company’s headquarters and factory are located in Malaysia’s Kulim High-Tech Park, and SilTerra has sales and marketing offices in San Jose (California) and Hsinchu (Taiwan). 

 

For additional information on SilTerra or its services, please visit www.silterra.com.

 

SilTerra Contact

 

Koh Meng Kong

Tel: +604-491-0425

Email: mengkong_koh@silterra.com

  

Lu Ping Chiang

Tel : +886-3-574-1587 (o)

Email : pingchiang_lu@silterra.com

 

Photo: SilTerra FA Lab – FIB Equipment