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Corporate Profile

DALSA Corporation is an international high performance semiconductor and electronics company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets digital imaging products and solutions, in addition to providing specialized wafer foundry services. DALSA's core competencies are in specialized integrated circuit and electronics technology, image processing hardware and software, and highly engineered semiconductor wafer processing. Products include image sensor components; electronic digital cameras; vision processing hardware components; image processing software algorithms; and semiconductor wafer foundry services for use in MEMS, high-voltage semiconductors, image sensors, and mixed-signal CMOS chips. Our products are vital components in equipment for manufacturing machines for semiconductor foundries, automated machines for manufacturing electronic components and boards, digital x-ray equipment, DNA based laboratory test equipment, industrial automated manufacturing systems, professional photography and many other industrial applications.

DALSA was founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1980 by imaging pioneer Dr. Savvas Chamberlain, a former Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Originally the company concentrated in developing and generating technology in the area of Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors. The company was capitalised in November 1984 and went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: DSA) in May 1996. The company has grown into an industry leader in digital imaging and semiconductor technology, employing approximately 1000 people world-wide with sales revenue of more than $168 Million. Sales offices across North America as well as in Germany and Japan support an international distribution network serving more than 40 countries.

DALSA Digital Imaging

High performance components, innovative imaging acquisition and processing solutions in hardware and software

Comprising DALSA's former Vision for Machines and DALSA Coreco divisions, DALSA Digital Imaging offers the widest range of machine vision components in the world. From industry-leading image sensors through powerful and sophisticated cameras, frame grabbers, vision processors and software to easy-to-use vision appliances and custom vision modules, our innovative technology helps give you competitive advantage in your imaging application, whatever it may be.

DALSA owns dozens of patents for the design of CCD and CMOS image sensor chips and digital cameras. Our specialised wafer foundry in Bromont owns dozens more patents for fabricating the semiconductors that drive them. We are unquestionably the world leader in high-performance CCDs and CMOS image sensors.

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• Image sensors
• Machine vision cameras
• Framegrabbers,
   vision processors,
   software

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With its 2005 acquisition of Coreco Imaging, DALSA began offering innovative vision processing hardware and software and smart cameras, elegantly complementing its traditional sensors and cameras. DALSA Digital Imaging's machine vision components and systems are used in online visual inspection solutions, including part-in-place verification, defect detection, OCR, optical metrology and robot guidance, allowing customers to improve quality control, productivity, and competitiveness. Backed by more than 25 years of application-specific experience and countless thousands of installations worldwide, DALSA delivers world-class machine vision solutions.

DALSA Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication

Industry-leading specialty foundry services
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DALSA's semiconductor wafer fabrication division, DALSA Semiconductor, is a center of excellence in Total Solution Silicon. This specialized manufacturing facility has a world class reputation as a manufacturer of semiconductor solutions to the electronics industry, particularly in the development and transfer of customized processes. The facility, acquired from Zarlink Semiconductor (formerly Mitel Corp.) in 2002, offers highly rated services in mixed signal CMOS and key specialty processes: High-Voltage CMOS (72-600V), MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical-systems), and tunable CCD and CCD-CMOS processes for scientific and industrial applications.

DALSA Semiconductor is an "open foundry," one of the few facilities in the world that can offer specialized high-performance CCD, high-voltage CMOS, and MEMS processes to fabless companies (all customers' designs and intellectual property are held in the strictest confidence).

Core Values

Vision

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Mission

To grow profitably the revenue of our company to $500 Million dollars by end of 2010.

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