The Philippines has launched its first laboratory that has the capability to conduct failure analysis on semiconductors — a development expected to save money for the country's semiconductors industry. No less than President Benigno Aquino III graced the launching of the Advanced Device and Materials Testing Laboratory (ADMATEL) at the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) compound in Taguig City on Friday.
Through the laboratory, the semiconductors industry can save money as it need not send its products to other countries for failure analysis, Aquino said in his speech. “Now that this lab is fully operational, companies here will not have to send their products for failure analysis to the United States or Singapore. They can do it here in their own backyard, with the tests conducted by our very own scientists,” he said.
The president added that the setting up of the laboratory is the government's answer to the industry's request. “I know that many of you in the semiconductors industry have spent decades asking for a facility such as this one to be built. And knowing what you contribute to our economy—knowing how much more you can contribute—we made absolutely certain that this got done,” Aquino said.
Aquino added that the laboratory’s inauguration will help the semiconductor industry move up and reach its three-year targets. “Without doubt, this facility will pull our semiconductors industry up the value chain, and move them closer to their target of becoming a 50-billion dollar industry by 2016,” he said
Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com (May 21, 2013)
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