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Aviza Technology Updates Guidance for First Quarter Fiscal 2009
Wednesday January 7, 4:05 pm ET
Retains Needham & Company to Explore Financial and Strategic Options



SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aviza Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVZA - News), a supplier of advanced semiconductor equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets, today announced that it expects to exceed its previously announced adjusted net income guidance for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended on December 26, 2008, and that it has retained Needham & Company, LLC to assist the Company in reviewing its financial and strategic options.

Aviza expects that net sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 will be at the low end of the original guidance range of $25 million to $32 million. However, Aviza expects that adjusted net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 will be in the range of $1 million to $4 million, a substantial improvement over the original guidance range of $50,000 to an adjusted net loss of $4 million. The improvements were a result of the faster impact of cost reduction measures and favorable currency exchange translation.



Original Guidance


Updated Guidance
Net Sales: $25 million - $32 million Low end of range
Adjusted Net Income: $50,000 – ($4 million) $1 million – $4 million

Additionally, the company has decided to engage Needham & Company to explore partnering, financing and business development options.

“We believe the results of our December quarter will reflect our ongoing efforts to improve our financial performance in the face of an extremely challenging macroeconomic environment. We are pleased that we’ve been able continue to decrease operating costs while maintaining our focus on our served markets with our single-wafer products.” said Jerry Cutini, President and Chief Executive Officer of Aviza Technology. \"Additionally, we’ve decided to engage Needham & Company to assist us in evaluating our financial and strategic options. We are looking forward to working closely with them as we move through a very difficult and unpredictable economy. Aviza and Needham & Company have a long history of working together and more importantly, they have a significant depth of experience in the semiconductor capital equipment industry.”

Safe Harbor

This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our management\'s current expectations and beliefs and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. You should not rely upon these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events because we cannot assure you that the events or circumstances reflected in these statements will be achieved or will occur. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, our guidance about our expected operating performance for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, the statements made by Jerry Cutini and all statements containing the words \"believes,\" \"expects,\" \"may,\" \"will,\" \"should,\" \"seeks,\" \"intends,\" \"plans,\" \"estimates\" or \"anticipates\" or the negative of these words and phrases or other variations of these words and phrases or comparable terminology. Many factors could cause our actual results to differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements. Some of these factors and other important factors are detailed in our various Securities and Exchange Commission filings, particularly in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, copies of which are available from us without charge. Please review these filings and do not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements.

About Aviza Technology, Inc.

Aviza Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and supports advanced semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets. The company’s systems are used in a variety of segments of the semiconductor market, such as advanced silicon for memory devices, advanced 3-D packaging and power integrated circuits for communications. Aviza’s common stock is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Global Market (NASDAQ GM:AVZA). Aviza is headquartered in Scotts Valley, Calif., with manufacturing, R&D, sales and customer support facilities located in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. Additional information about the company can be found at http://www.aviza.com.


Contact:

Aviza Technology, Inc.
Lisa Mansfield, [phone] (Corporate Communications)
Corporate Marketing
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Patrick O’Connor, [phone] (Investor Relations)
Chief Financial Officer
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Source: Aviza Technology, Inc.

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Aviza Technology, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, sale, and support of semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the semiconductor industry and related markets worldwide. It offers both front-end-of-line and back-end-of-line systems and process technologies using critical thin film formation technologies, such as atomic layer deposition (ALD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma etch (Etch), and thermal processing systems. The companys ALD systems include Celsior fxP, a single-wafer, multi-chamber cluster solution configurable to both 200 millimeter (mm) and 300 mm wafer sizes. It also provides Sigma fxP, a system used to sputter uniform layers of pure metals or metal alloys, and metal compounds, such as oxides or nitrides; Delta fxP system for applications in shallow trench isolation, pre-metal dielectric, inter-metal dielectric, and final passivation layer; Delta i2L cluster system for processing wafers up to 200 mm in size; 1500 atmospheric pressure CVD (APCVD) systems for processing 200mm wafers addressing design-rule fabrication capability of 0.15 micron; 1000 APCVD system offering either hybrid or TEOS-reactant processes; and 999R APCVD and TEOS999 APCVD systems for production lines employing between 100mm and 150mm wafers. Avizas Etch systems include Omega fxP that offers up to six process modules plus in-line stations to allow for the alignment and the cooling down of the wafer; and Omega i2L that features plasma source technologies in a single-chamber format. Its thermal processing systems include RVP-300plus for processing 300mm wafers; RVP-550, a flexible batch heating system to process loads up to 100 wafers; and RVP-200 and AVP-200 for processing 8-inch and 6-inch wafers. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California.


http://www.avizatechnology.com/