05/18/2005 Not even the industry's 800-lb. gorilla can withstand the irresistible force of sluggish market demand. Applied Materials Inc. reported orders for its chipmaking equipment in its fiscal 2Q05 (ended May 1) fell 30% year-on-year to $1.55 billion, while sales fell 8% to $1.86 billion. Sequentially, orders were down 7%, while sales were up 5% from fiscal 1Q05.
05/17/2005 Can SEMATECH Inc. help find new ways to squeeze more life out of conventional planar bulk transistors while delaying the need for nonclassical CMOS devices, such as FinFETs or other multigate FETs? That's the newest objective being added to SEMATECH's list of top 10 technical challenges for 2006, which will be used to formulate and focus about 75 R&D programs next year.
05/17/2005 By J. Robert Lineback, Senior Technical Editor
Semiconductor forecasting has never been easy, but in the flash memory arena, market projections have become doubly difficult. Demand for nonvolatile NAND-based flash continues to exceed projections due to strong growth in digital photography and the emergence of high-volume consumer electronics applications...
05/17/2005 May 16, 2005 - CVD Equipment Corp. has signed a contract with First Nano Inc., of Carpinteria, CA, to purchase certain assets of its nanotechnology process development and equipment business. First Nano develops solutions for single and multiwall nanotube and nanowire synthesis and manufactures CVD process equipment suitable for the synthesis of a variety of carbon nanotubes, 1-D nanostructures, and nanomaterials.
05/17/2005 May 17, 2005 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that ProMOS Technologies has selected the Agilent 4072B parametric test solution for its 300mm wafer Fab III at the Central Taiwan Science Park, Taiwan.
05/17/2005 In the MEMS industry five years ago, venture capital financing was relatively easy to secure and many MEMS-based businesses raised millions of dollars at sky-high company valuations. Today, most of those companies are out of business or at the very least did not deliver on the promises made to their financiers. We could have followed the same path but didn't.
05/16/2005 May 16, 2005 - On May 11, Intel Corp. announced that Intel Technological Development (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. was formally established, with a total investment of over CNY 300 million (US$39 million), according to the Financial Times.
05/16/2005 FRANKLIN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2005--Speedline Technologies will shine in the SEMICON West 2005 spotlight on the latest platform enhancements and developments of its soon to be released XyflexPro+ Dispensing System.
05/16/2005 IRVINE, Calif. & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2005--CoreValve announced today that it has completed the certification of the Company's two 'clean rooms' at its R&D and manufacturing facility based in Irvine, Calif.
05/16/2005 (May 16, 2005) Geneva, Switzerland — STMicroelectronics (ST) is planning on additional efforts to restructure in hopes of recovering profitability in the disappointing Q1 2005 aftermath. The moves reposition the company's cost structure in the competitive industry environment — characterized by the slowing growth rate of demand, which particularly impacts European-based companies.
