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1990 Tim Berners-Lee creates the world Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and www language (HTML). 1991 Eight-inch wafers go into production at MEMC’s joint venture in Cheonan, South Korea. 1993 The global semiconductor equipment market exceeds $10 billion in sales for the first time. 1994 MEMC’s joint venture, Taisil Electronic Materials, is located in Hsinchu, Taiwan. 1995 MEMC Southwest, a joint venture with Texas Instruments, is established in Sherman, Texas, to produce six-inch wafers. 1996 Stan Myers, former president and CEO of Siltec and one of MEMC’s “Pioneers,” is appointed president of SEMI. 1997 MEMC St. Peters begins commercial production of 300mm wafers. 1999 MEMC introduces three new products: 52 Optia, Aegis, and MDZ. The Pentium processor is produced. MEMC trades on the New York Stock Exchange as an Initial Public Offering under the stock symbol “WFR.” MEMC secures base patents on Perfect Silicon–brand wafers. MEMC Taisil plant 300mm opening ceremony, Hsinchu, Taiwan. silicon market by the year 2000, and several expansions reflected those projections. The joint venture plant in Cheonan, Korea, completed an expansion that increased its capacity to more than three hundred thousand 200mm wafers per month. JoInt venture—taIwan In 1994, MEMC entered into a joint venture with China Steel Corporation, China Development Industrial Bank, and Chiao Tung Bank. The company formed as a result of this joint venture was named Taisil Electronic Materials Corporation. The manufacturing facility was located in Hsinchu, a medium-sized city located about an hour south of Taiwan’s capital city of Taipei. Referred to as Taiwan’s “Silicon Valley,” the Hsinchu location gave the Taisil plant back-door access to many of MEMC’s Taiwanese customers. Tommy L. Cadwell, MEMC’s president of Asian Operations at the time, said that investment in the plant was expected to exceed $150 million. Taisil was Taiwan’s first large-diameter advanced silicon wafer producer. Its capacity upon its opening was eighty-five thousand wafers per month, but expansions quickly brought its capacity to its peak volume of three hundred thousand 200mm wafers per month.
even by 1995 STAnDArDS According to an article in the October 2, 1995, St. Louis Post Dispatch, At some stages (of silicon manufacturing), the air in the process line is five million times cleaner than the atmosphere in St. Louis. The circuitry on Intel Corporation’s Pentium chip is equal in complexity to a street map of the entire United States and fits on a surface about the size of a fingernail. That same year, 1994, MEMC also purchased a silicon wafer plant in Santa Clara, California. The facility, previously a subsidiary of Kawasaki Steel Corporation, produced 100mm and 150mm silicon wafers and employed about two hundred people. The plant, known as Kawatech, was purchased to increase arsenic crystal capacity. the IBM ConneCtIon IBM and MEMC share an interdependent history that dates back to the earliest days of the St. Peters plant. During the late 1980s, the two companies worked together to launch 200mm wafers. This success was beneficial to both companies as it furthered the relationship, and on many occasions IBM would work with MEMC on special development projects, and MEMC could reap the benefits of the relationship both technologically and financially. Groundbreaking ceremony at Posco Hüls, MEMC’s joint venture in Cheonan, South Korea. The plant in Cheonan, South Korea—MKC. Taisil Electronic Materials plant in Hsinchu, Taiwan. A Global Company 53
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