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Skorpios Technologies, a system-on-chip company in Albuquerque, acquired Novati Technologies LLC, a semiconductor integration firm and fabrication facility in Austin, Texas. The transaction closed Oct. 2, 2017 for an undisclosed amount. The combined company will operate under the Skorpios Technologies name, according to a company release.

Novati Technologies will present a poster at the 2017 IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The poster summarizes a wafer-level reliability study, conducted with ON Semiconductor, that evaluates oxide-to-oxide and copper-to-copper hybrid bonds and characterizes related test structures.

Novati Technologies in Austin focuses on heterogeneous integration and 3D chip development. The firm operates at the Sematech research fab site, provides development and low-volume manufacturing for customers, and restricts access to customer intellectual property.

SPTS Technologies, part of Orbotech, will supply its Rapier-300S plasma dicing system to Novati Technologies for a new plasma dicing line at Novati’s fabrication facility in Austin, Texas. Novati selected SPTS’s Rapier-300S over other options to offer plasma dicing capabilities and services to customers.