Armbrust replaces retiring McIntosh as chair at Irresistible
Armbrust has over 35 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, much of it with IBM where he pioneered the introduction of 300mm-diameter wafers to the industry. Subsequently he was CEO of Sematech, the consortium of semiconductor companies that developed the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography ecosystem. More recently Armbrust has been the co-founder and initial CEO of Silicon Catalyst, an incubator for semiconductor startups.
Irresistible Materials was spun out of the University of Birmingham in 2010 to develop and commercialize lithographic materials for manufacturing of semiconductor chips. The company is working towards trials of its EUV photoresist and spin-on-carbon materials through 2019 and 2020, with a goal of commercial launch in 2021.
The patented materials are a new form of chemistry known as a multi-trigger resist (see Irresistible Materials ramps production of EUV photoresist) that should help with resolution of features below 18nm. The outgoing chair Stuart McIntosh – well known from his time at Philips Semiconductor and ASML – has now retired after a career spanning 47 years.
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