It all started over 30 years ago, when Varian Associates, Inc. entered the ion implantation market in 1975 through the acquisition of Extrion Corporation in Gloucester, Massachusetts and its medium current ion implanter products. This signaled the beginning of an intense program of research, product development and technological innovation that has resulted in a superior product line family of ion implanters. Our single wafer VIISta platform includes all three types of tools available in our industry today – high current, medium current and high energy ion implanters.

In April 1999, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSEA) spun-off of Varian Associates, one of the founding companies of California’s Silicon Valley. Today, we continue to design, manufacture, market and service semiconductor processing capital equipment all over the world used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. In fact, we have sold more ion implanters than all of our competitors combined!