Therma-Wave Inc. - TWAV- Profile

Therma-Wave Incorporated. The Group's principal activity is to develop, manufacture markets and provides services process control metrology systems used in the manufacture of semiconductors. Process control metrology is used to monitor process parameters in order to enable semiconductor manufacturers to maintain high overall manufacturing yield, reduce the size of the circuit features imprinted on the semiconductor to improve the performance of the semiconductor device and increase their equipment productivity. The Group sells five product families of process control metrology systems: Therma-Probe (R), Opti-Probe (R), Opti-Probe CDtm, RT/ CD(R) and Integra(R). As of 02-Apr-2006, the Group owned 21 registered trademarks in the United States and 2 in Japan and had filed 4 trademark registration applications in the United States. The Group operates in the Unites States, Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, Europe, China and Singapore. Develops, manufactures, markets and provides svcs to process control metrology systems used in the manufacture of semiconductors