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Excico France SASU designs, manufactures and markets high energy Exciplex lasers tools dedicated to thin film processing. It also provides equipment focusing on the semiconductor device market and related industries. The firm's products include LTA 150x TW and TWX, C, PhotoVoltaics, III-V, Logic devices and 3D Chip stacking technologies. The company is headquartered in Gennevilliers, France.

Cymer, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of light sources for the manufacturers of photolithography tools in the semiconductor equipment industry. It provides chip making process, light source, onpluse and data products and services. The company was founded by Robert P. Akins and Richard L. Sandstrom in 1986 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

SOPRA SA designs, develops, and manufactures scientific research and development instruments and industrial tools for thin film measurements with optical solutions. Its products include table top and framed spectroscopic ellipsometer, combined metrology systems, and porosimeter ellipsometer. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Courbevoie, France.

Excico Group NV designs, manufactures and markets excimer laser tools. Its products are used for fabrication of electronic components such as image sensors, metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect and insulated-gate bipolar transistors. The firm's laser melt annealing tool is available for semiconductor dopant activation, film recrystallisation, annealing and sintering. The company was founded by Marc Mestres, Dominique Bérard, Cyril Dutems, Olivier Sannier, Julien Venturin and Bruno Godard on April 10, 2007 and is headquartered in Hasselt, Belgium.