Anchor is a pioneer and a worldwide leader in semiconductor pattern-centric hotspot management and analysis software, supplying both foundries and IDMs with a suite of software solutions to improve manufacturing efficiency and chip yield. Anchor helps leading edge foundries to resolve the rapidly increasing challenges of analyzing and managing significant volumes of Defect and CD metrology data from the fab, determining process critical design patterns, and optimizing fab processes. Anchor solutions integrate data from multiple sources in fab with pattern-centric learning for Design, OPC, Lithography, Defect, Metrology and other Process teams.