DALSA Corporation (TSX:DSA), a diversified electronics company with operations in integrated circuits, the life sciences. Machine vision and digital imaging, has entered into an agreement with Xerox Corporation to develop Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) that have dramatically improved cost/performance ratios. Xerox Corporation, which through its Xerox Intellectual Property Operations  has optical MEMS and the microfluidic MEMSJet, plans to utilize DALSA’s MEMS and High Voltage manufacturing expertise in conjunction with its own technology for the development of the new low-cost, high performance MEMS microsystems.

According to Steven B. Bolte, Vice-President and manager of the Xerox Wilson Center for Research and Technology in Rochester, New York, ""We chose DALSA because we needed a supplier who had the capability to integrate MEMS, and High Voltage CMOS, and that could do wafer level packaging. We have been working with DALSA for nine months on prototype short loop experiments which will enable more rapid product Time-to-Market as technology matures."

Ralf Brooks, President of the DALSA Semiconductor division, commented on the announcement, "We are pleased to be working with Xerox, a company with a strong track record for innovation. This collaboration will utilize our toolbox of integratable, advanced MEMS process modules and our capability to integrate CMOS and/or High Voltage circuitry produced from in-house manufactured wafers or from third party deep sub-micron sources."