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is an international technology company based in San Jose, California, that supplies equipment to global semiconductor fabrication plants, and also makes tools for nanotechnology applications by optical networking, data storage and automotive and display industries. Since May 2017 it has been owned by
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In 2003 sales rebounded to over US$ 100 million, and the company posted a profit, benefitted by inventory and product sales which had been previously written down, thus gaining over US$ 1.6 million of the profit for 2003. Intel Corp. accounted for 26% of
Ultratech's sales. Sales to nanotechnology
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For the year 2000 sales came in under US$ 150 million, including a nearly US$ 16 million non-operating gain that year from the sale of some land. The more than US$ 4 million impairment related to
Ultratech's XLS reduction product platform which had been acquired in 1998. The restructuring included
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Stepper, Inc. acquired the assets of Integrated Solutions, Inc. ("ISI"), a privately held manufacturer of i-line and deep ultraviolet (UV) reduction lithography systems based in Tewksbury (Massachusetts) and Austin (Texas), and thus the XLS reduction lithography platform of that
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Suffering from the three-year technology bear market and the 2001 recession, for the year 2002 Ultratech sales revenue dropped nearly by half, to under US$ 69 million, with more than half that amount showing as yet another major operating loss. Three more charges hit the company that year, from
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Since at least 2004 Ultratech operates in two leased facilities, through 2011, totalling under 200,000 square feet (19,000 m) in San Jose. Operations and
Corporate Headquarters are at 3050 Zanker Road, with another facility at 2880 Junction Ave. Since March 1993, its Chairman and
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Zafiropoulo became the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the newly independent Ultratech Stepper. Throughout the 1990s, the company retained that name, reflecting its original core business.
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manufacturers reached a quarter of total company sales in 2003. With the financial recovery, Ultratech's always-volatile stock price soared from under US$ 10 per share in the first quarter, to the mid 30s by year end.
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inventory write-downs, discontinued products and more restructuring, totalling nearly US$ 11 million of the loss. The restructuring included an additional reduction in workforce by 15% in
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In 2004, Ultratech formally entered the rapid thermal processing market when it shipped its Laser
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