Built and opened in 1995, SUMCO's Albuquerque facility specializes in 200mm epitaxial wafers used to make some of the most advanced products in the world. The end-use of Albuquerque's wafers is mainly for state-of-the-art CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) applications such as 32- and 64-bit microprocessors, microcontrollers, DRAM and FLASH memory, and ASIC integrated circuits.