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About Crossing Automation

About the Company

Crossing Automation, Inc. is a leading supplier of efficient, cost-effective front-end and back-end automation solutions and engineering services to high volume semiconductor equipment manufacturers. The company's unique approach to automation solutions enables its customers to shorten time to market, lower development costs and reduce total costs. Through its front-end and back-end automation solutions, Crossing achieves critical manufacturing flexibility for OEMs and IC manufacturers alike.


Crossing's End-to-End Automation Platforms

Crossing Automation's ExpressConnect modular building block family of automation components delivers integrated atmospheric and vacuum substrate handling sub-systems with small footprints, low costs and high productivity for semiconductor manufacturing. Crossing also delivers a broad range of leading-edge, cost-effective 300 mm, 200 mm, and 150 mm component technologies to both OEMs and semiconductor manufacturers including isolation, robotics, and tracking. Crossing implements a system architecture that uses highly reliable linear transfer devices and simplified control algorithms to improve efficiencies and control reliability and is key to enabling a comprehensive, flexible, end-to-end automation solution.

Company History

Crossing Automation, Inc., is a privately held company founded in 2003 and funded by Tallwood Ventures and Intel Capital, raising $15 million in its Series A round in 2005-2007 and $6.5 million in a B round in 2009. Crossing Automation designed and built an innovative and proprietary approach to automated vacuum wafer handling systems known as ExpressConnect, which it brought to market in early 2009. In August 2009, Crossing Automation acquired the atmospheric IP and related assets of the former Asyst Technologies, Inc., making it a complete supplier of atmospheric and vacuum wafer-level automation to the semiconductor and related manufacturing industries.