Nova announces multiple installations of stand-alone metrology tool

REHOVOT, ISRAEL: Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd has announced multiple installations of its Nova T500 stand-alone optical CD metrology tool which are expected to total seven different customers by the end of the third quarter of 2010.

The company also noted that five of these are new stand-alone metrology customers.

Noam Shintel, Director of Corporate Marketing, commented: "Since the introduction of the Nova T500, we have focused our penetration efforts on leading edge memory manufactures and foundries. The unique capabilities of the Nova T500 provide an excellent combination of ground breaking throughput and cost of ownership with cutting edge measurement capabilities.

"We are thrilled that this product has won a vote of confidence of as many as seven leading edge customers, representing around 70 percent of the top-20 semiconductor manufacturers wafer fab equipment spending. We expect these new installations to lead us to continued growth in our stand-alone market share, as our customers continue to increase their capacity and deploy state-of-the-art metrology in advanced semiconductor manufacturing."

The NOVA T500 is a high throughput high accuracy stand-alone optical CD platform. It addresses the toughest challenges the industry faces: increasing metrology sampling, improving metrology precision and reducing metrology cost of ownership (CoO).