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Process for fabricating two different types of wafers in a semiconductor wafer production line

US6190424A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 11, 1995
Grant dateFeb 20, 2001
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Expiry dateJan 11, 2015

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02P90/02
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A semiconductor integrated circuit device fabrication method has a main processing line and a sub-processing line. The main processing line includes a plurality of main batch processing sections, each of which processes a plurality of main objects at a time, and a plurality of main sequential processing sections, each of which processes a minimum number of main objects at a time. The main processing line feeds the main objects to the main batch processing sections and the main sequential processing sections for predetermined processing. The sub-processing line includes a plurality of sub-processing sections, each of which performs processing identical with that of a corresponding main batch processing section on a minimum number of sub-objects and certain of the main sequential processing sections. The sub-processing line feeds the sub-objects to the sub-processing sections and the main sequential processing sections for predetermined processing.

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