Onto Innovation Partners with Rigaku to Advance Semiconductor Manufacturing Control Solutions
The company states: "Onto Innovation announced a strategic collaboration with X-ray technology leader Rigaku Holdings Corporation to advance next-generation process control solutions for semiconductor manufacturing. Rigaku, a leading manufacturer of X-ray related technologies, is engaged with customers across a wide range of markets, including a growing presence in process control for semiconductor fabrication. The evolving complexity of advanced logic and memory design, as well as the advanced packaging architectures used for tighter integration is creating an increase in reliance on novel and exotic materials. While this drives greater demand for process control solutions such as optical critical dimension metrology it's also creating emerging opportunities for the capabilities inherent in X-ray technology."