
The SEMICON Industry includes a broad array of companies that manufacture and service the equipment that is used to design, manufacture & package microelectronics. It is a vast industry that for example holds the worlds largest industry & trade show SEMICON WEST held in San Francisco & San Jose annually.
The major SEMICON industry segments are:
ANSYS, Inc provides software analysis solutions to many companies in each of these SEMICON industry segments.
For example, in the Vacuum & Processing equipment segment, ANSYS Multiphysics is used in the design of devices such as plasma vapor deposition (PVD) chambers and Ion Implanters.
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ANSYS Multiphysics analysis of RF excitation of PVD chamber