13 Oct 2008
Cardiff, 13th October 2008: Roy Blunt, Special Projects
manager at IQE, is the 2008 recipient of the SEMI Europe
Standards Honour Award for establishing the SEMI Europe
Standards Compound Technical Committee and his contribution
to the development of Compound related standards and
guidelines. The award was presented at the SEMI Executive
Summit at last week's SEMICON Europa in Stuttgart, Germany.
Blunt, working in conjunction with Wolfgang Jantz,
established the SEMI European Standards Compound Committee
in 1998. Prior to that, he was actively involved with the
association since the early 1980s, when he worked on
magnetic bubble memories and attended a SEMI GGG (Gadolinium
Gallium Garnet) committee meeting at one of the big
magnetics conferences in the USA.
As co-chair of the SEMI European Standards Compound
Committee he led several task forces and contributed to the
development of several other standards on both a European
and international level.
“Mr. Blunt was presented the Honour Award for his
long-standing dedication and to the advancement of SEMI
Standards,” said Heinz Kundert, president of SEMI Europe.
“SEMI would like to express its gratitude for his unselfish
contributions, perseverance, commitment and enthusiasm
toward the SEMI International Standards Program, and the
overall success of our industry.”
The SEMI International Standards program has long provided a
mechanism for industry experts to develop key standards for
equipment and materials used in semiconductor factories.
Standards are required to achieve commonality, decrease
manufacturing costs, increase reliability and productivity,
reduce rework, and facilitate access to global markets.
Involvement in the standards development process helps
participants to influence important industry trends and
remain competitive. The SEMI Standards development program
facilitates valuable pre-competitive technology discussions,
and the work conducted in developing these consensus
specifications is vital to the health and development of the
semiconductor manufacturing and related industries.
“The Standards program is a success thanks to commitments by
several thousand of individuals assigned by their companies
that represent all sectors of the industry, across all
regions of the world,” said Kundert. “To every volunteer,
and to their management – SEMI expresses its appreciation
for their efforts, contribution and dedication.”
Contacts:
IQE
Chris Meadows
investors@iqep.com
Tel: +44 29 2083 9400
SEMI Europe
Carlos Lee
clee@semi.org
Tel: +32 2289 6497
NOTE TO EDITORS
ABOUT IQE
IQE plc is this year celebrating its twentieth
anniversary as the leading global supplier of advanced
semiconductor wafers with products that cover a diverse
range of applications. It is able to provide a 'one stop
shop' for the wafer needs of the world's leading compound
semiconductor manufacturers, who in turn use these wafers to
make the chips which form the key components of virtually
every high technology system. IQE has particular focus on
the growing global wireless sector for applications
including; mobile handsets, wireless infrastructure, Wi-Fi,
WiMAX, base stations, GPS and satellite communications; as
well as for the optical communication sector including;
optical storage (CD, DVD), laser optical mice, laser
printers & photocopiers, thermal imagers, leading-edge
medical products, bar-coding, high efficiency LEDs and
advanced solar cells.
The manufacturers of these chips are increasingly seeking to
outsource wafer production to specialist foundries such as
IQE in order to reduce overall wafer costs and accelerate
time to market. IQE is unique in being able to supply wafers
using all of the leading crystal growth technology platforms
including Metal Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) and
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and the Group is able to
leverage its global purchasing volumes to reduce the cost of
raw materials.
IQE also provides bespoke R&D services to deliver customized
materials for specific applications and offers specialist
technical staff to manufacture to specification either at
its own facilities or on the customer's own sites. This is
backed by a strategy of duplicating each key product
processes over multiple sites to assure customers of
security of supply as well as provide compelling customer
benefits in terms of flexibility and predictability of cost,
thereby significantly reducing operating risk.
IQE operates six manufacturing facilities; two in Cardiff
and one in Milton Keynes in the UK; two more in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania and Somerset, New Jersey in the USA; and its
most recent acquisition in Singapore. The Group also has 11
sales offices located in major economic centres worldwide.
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