In May, Netherland’s Nearfield Instruments signed a multi-year research collaboration agreement with Singapore’s Institute of Microelectronics.PHOTO: NEARFIELD INSTRUMENTS/LINKEDIN
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Netherland’s Nearfield Instruments plans to make Singapore an innovation and service hub for its machines that help chipmakers boost production yield and efficiency of their integrated circuit devices.
The company, which counts Temasek as one of its key investors, is in talks with several local precision engineering firms over its plans.
They will manufacture parts and modules of its equipment that provide highly accurate nanometer-level measurements of individual, and even buried, features and defects especially in advanced memory and logic chips for AI that are more complex.
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