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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;">CURRENT
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TO SECTION&nbsp;13 OR 15(d)&nbsp;OF THE<br>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Axcelis
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</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(Exact Name of
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#160;<b>Item
7.01.&nbsp;&nbsp; Regulation FD Disclosure.</b></font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">On May&nbsp;1,
2008, Axcelis Technologies,&nbsp;Inc., posted on its website a memorandum from
Mary Puma, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, regarding the application of a
governance policy adopted by the Board of Directors following the director
election results at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on May&nbsp;1,
2008.&nbsp; A copy of the memorandum is furnished as Exhibit&nbsp;99.1 to this Form&nbsp;8-K.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Exhibit&nbsp;99.1
shall not be deemed &#147;filed&#148; for purposes of Section&nbsp;18 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;), or otherwise subject to
the liabilities under that Section&nbsp;and shall not be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item
9.01&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial Statements and Exhibits.</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(d)&nbsp;Exhibits</font></p>

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  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer to Axcelis Technologies,&nbsp;Inc. dated
  May&nbsp;1, 2008</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">SIGNATURES</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this
report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</font></p>

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  Technologies,&nbsp;Inc.</font></p>
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<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit 99.1</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">May&nbsp;1,
2008</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Axcelis shareholder,</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Today at Axcelis&#146; Annual Meeting of
Stockholders, Stephen R. Hardis, R. John Fletcher and H. Brian Thompson were
re-elected to the Board of Directors.&nbsp; Stockholders also ratified the
appointment of Ernst&nbsp;&amp; Young LLP as the Independent Registered Public
Accounting firm for the Company.&#160; In
addition, a proposal seeking to change the Certificate of Incorporation to
provide for the elimination of the classified board structure failed to receive
the approval of the requisite 75% of the outstanding shares.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Directors Hardis, Fletcher, and Thompson
received less than a majority of the stockholder vote in support of their
election.&nbsp; We believe that these results were impacted by the
recommendation by Institutional Shareholder Services that stockholders withhold
their votes for the election of the director nominees due to the failure of the
Board to recommend in favor of the proposed change to the Certificate of
Incorporation.&#160; Under one of Axcelis&#146;
corporate governance policies, each of these directors will offer to resign
from the Board.&nbsp; The Nominating and Governance Committee will consider
each of these resignations and make a recommendation to the full Board on the
acceptance or rejection of the resignations. The Board will then act on the
recommendation as they determine appropriate and in the best interests of
shareholders.&#160; Axcelis will report on the
Board&#146;s decision once it is made.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Sincerely,</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Mary G.
Puma</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Chairman
of the Board,</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Chief
Executive Officer and President</font></p>

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