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Mortin Sentman slicing wafers.
Polishing two-inch wafers.
aPPlICatIon-sPeCIFIC waFers
The introduction of the MultiStrate product line
perhaps marked the beginning of the applicationspecific
approach to increasing customer demands.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Monsanto
was instrumental in SEMI’s efforts toward
standardization of silicon wafer production.
This was important, primarily because the more
standardization Monsanto could incorporate
into its manufacturing process, the easier and
more cost effective it was to accommodate the
customers’ requests for specific features as device
manufacturers required increasing customization.