Three Companies Join LEEPL Technology Consortium
The LEEPL Technology Consortium (established by Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd., Mr. Hideo Ohtsubo, Chairman and CEO, together with its subsidiary company, LEEPL Corporation and Sony Corporation) today announced the addition of three new member companies. This brings the total membership of the LEEPL Technology Consortium to 19 companies.
- New members
The new member companies are: semiconductor device manufacturers, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and SHARP CORPORATION; and mask data conversion system manufacturer, NIPPON CONTROL SYSTEM CORPORATION
- LEEPL Technology Consortium
- The Consortium was formed on June 15, 2001 with the objective of accelerating development and dissemination of next-generation lithography technology. Initial participants were 13 companies including semiconductor device makers, semiconductor manufacturing equipment makers, mask makers and resist makers.
- Subsequently three additional companies joined the Consortium making a total of 16 active participants.
- The full list of 19 current member companies are Sony Corporation, NEC Corporation, RHOM CO., LTD., Texas Instruments Incorporated, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., SHARP CORPORATION, NTT Advanced Technology Corporation, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., HOYA CORPORATION, TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD., JSR Corporation, FUJIFILM Arch Co., Ltd., TOSHIBA MACHINE CO., LTD., Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., SHIPLEY FAR EAST LTD., NIPPON CONTROL SYSTEM CORPORATION, LEEPL Corporation and Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd.
- The Consortium will continue to solicit participation from interested parties with the shared aim of accelerating the development of the nextgeneration lithography technology, LEEPL.
