Scanimetrics Doing Business with Taiwan

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ScanimetricsDoing Business with Taiwan

• Steve Slupsky
• President CEO

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• Corporate Overview
• Company
• Technology
• Markets
• Taiwan
• Experience to date
• Future challenges

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• Scanimetrics sells products to the semiconductor
  industry that dramatically reduce chip
  manufacturing cost.
• (Scanimetrics) technology is seminal in nature
  and the impact will be profound.
• (Denny Sabo, former CEO, Arithmos)

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The Company

• University spin-off
• Operations started 2003
• Company well financed
• Institutionally financed
• Commitment for follow on financing
• Growing rapidly
• 21 employees
• 2 successful customer trials more in the pipe
• International customers manufacturers

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The Technology

• Micro scale wireless communications
• Origin butterfly tagging at the UofA
• Corporate focus semiconductor testing

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Markets

• Semiconductor manufacturing gt200 billion
• Semiconductor testing gt8 billion

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Our Advantage

• Non-contact
• chips can be smaller
• more chips can be tested at once, therefore
• faster
• lower cost

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Relationship Genesis

• IWSOC Conference July 2004
• Taiwanese industry participation
• Travelled to Taiwan Nov 2004
• UMC
• TSMC
• Ardentech
• Faraday

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UMC Relationship

• Formalized in 2005
• Semiconductor foundry
• Provides silicon prototypes
• Gold IP Catalogue

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Concerns

• Intellectual property protection
• NDA in place
• Disclosure management
• Logistics time difference
• Adjust our work hours
• Communications slow

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General Impressions

• Taiwan is reputable
• IP a serious issue
• Taiwanese are knowledgeable
• Semiconductor industry
• North America
• Western style of business

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Future Relationship

• A necessity to Scanimetrics success