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SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 (Reuters) - Applied Materials (AMAT.O) on Tuesday released its first major update to some of its core semiconductor manufacturing equipment in more than decade, aiming to boost the number of chips factories can make while using less energy...
The new system, called Vistara, is a central hub inside chip factories that feeds silicon discs called wafers into sealed vacuum chambers, where metals and other materials can be either deposited or stripped away within a few atoms of precision...
Applied Materials announced the new system at a chipmaking conference in San Francisco..
The new system cuts energy use by about 10%, Applied said.. Mike Rice, vice president of the semiconductor products group at Applied, said the Vistara system has already shipped to more than one memory chip maker and that makers of the computing chips that form the brains of most electronic devices have also shown "interest.".
