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Vienna / Avezzano, May 2008: Micron, one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, successfully uses Viscovery SOMine for clustering of spatial failure patterns.

The industrial manufacture of integrated circuits is a complex and costly process. Continuous high-quality output and high yields are essential for successful production. Product defects, therefore, need to be detected at an early stage of the production process. Defect patterns on wafers are an important source of information for the identification of production problems.

An important step is to isolate clusters of similar failure patterns and assign individual defects to distinct failure classes. Using Viscovery SOMine, Micron obtained very good results in clustering shading patterns of failing wafers.

Traditionally, defect recognition is performed by yield analysis engineers who inspect the electrical failure map of each wafer. This manual approach is not only time consuming and expensive, but also leads to high levels of misidentification; thus, Micron aims to develop systems for automatic defect recognition.

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About Micron

With net sales of $5.69 billion in 2007 and 22,600 employees worldwide, Micron is one of the world's largest companies focused on memory, storage and imaging semiconductor products. Since 2006, Micron has successfully used the Viscovery software for the analysis of failure patterns in semiconductor production.

About Viscovery Software GmbH

As one of the first data-mining companies in Europe, Viscovery (formerly eudaptics software gmbh) is among the leading vendors of predictive analytics solutions. Since September 2007 Viscovery has been part of the Biomax group.

The Viscovery suite contains unique patented technology for exploratory analysis and statistical modeling of complex data. Comprehensive workflows support the generation of high-performance predictive models, which can be integrated in real time and updated automatically.

For many years, the Viscovery software has been used by more than 300 customers in diversified areas ranging from banking, insurance, telecommunications, industry, media and retail to research organizations and universities.

For more information visit www.viscovery.net.