Advanced Mask Technology Center

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Advanced Mask Technology Center GmbH Co. KG
legal form joint venture
founding 2002
Seat Dresden
Number of employees about 170
Branch microelectronics
Website www.amtc-dresden.com

The Advanced Mask Technology Center (AMTC) is a so-called mask house , i.e. a company that deals with the development and production of photolithography masks - one of the most important elements for the photolithographic structuring of wafers and thus for the entire manufacturing process of integrated circuits (ICs) .

The company was founded in 2002 as a joint venture between Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Infineon Technologies and DuPont Photomasks in equal shares. After the takeover of DuPont Photomasks by Toppan Photomasks (TPI) in 2004, the spin-off of the semiconductor memory division from Infineon into the company Qimonda in 2004 and its bankruptcy in 2009 as well as the integration of the spin- off semiconductor factories from AMD into the newly established foundry Globalfoundries , AMTC has been a joint venture between Globalfoundries and Toppan Photomasks Inc. (TPI) since 2009. In 2012, both partners agreed to continue the partnership at least until 2017. One focus of the AMTC will be on increasing the production of masks for 28 nm and 20 nm technology as well as developing and introducing technology for 14 nm technology. The latter includes the development of masks for EUV lithography .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Kuri: Microelectronics location Dresden is being expanded. In: heise online. December 12, 2012, accessed January 14, 2014 .
  2. ↑ AMD, Infineon and DuPont Photomasks lay the foundation stone for a joint mask center in Dresden - Infineon Technologies. June 4, 2002, accessed January 12, 2014 (Infineon press release).
  3. ↑ Peter-Michael Ziegler: Photo mask specialist Toppan takes over US competitor DuPont. In: heise online. October 5, 2004, accessed January 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Toppan Photomasks and GLOBALFOUNDRIES extend joint venture and plan further investments in a joint mask center in Dresden. AMTC, December 12, 2012, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; accessed on August 14, 2019 (press release).

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 38.3 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 33"  E