Taiwan-Based Foundry Selects Falcon 800 Optical Inspection System

Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: CAMT) ("Camtek" or the "Company"), announced today that a leading Semiconductor Foundry in Taiwan has selected the Falcon, Camtek's Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) system, for metrology and inspection solution for the 3D integration circuits ("3D IC") process.

Advanced packaging of 3D IC with Through Silicon Via (TSV) interconnects, Micro Bump and additional processes is the next generation of high performance logic and memory integrated devices. This process requires new metrology and inspection capabilities.

Camtek's Falcon 800 family offers a wide range of metrology and inspection solutions for the 3D IC process including integration on a single platform in order to support the development cycle, production ramp up qualification and short time to market. The Falcon 830plus system was evaluated by the leading chipmaking Foundry and selected over its competitors after demonstrating the best-of-breed performance in this challenging arena.

Mr. Roy Porat, Camtek's General Manager commented: "This is our first penetration sale to this very important customer in Taiwan. In addition to the potential of this customer becoming a significant customer in our future this sale further improves our position with other customers in the Taiwan Semiconductor Market."