05/10/2005 (May 10, 2005) South Portland, Maine — Fairchild Semiconductor announces that it is expanding its Furstenfeldbruck, Germany-based Global Power Resource power design and application lab to provide complete system power solutions for motion and motor control, where the company will invest in new equipment, as well as motion and motor control engineers.
05/10/2005 CHELMSFORD, Mass. - May 10, 2005 - Brooks Software, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. and a leading provider of real-time applications for complex manufacturing operations, today announced the
availability of iReticles 3.0, the latest version of Brooks' system for managing the large number of reticles that exist in a typical semiconductor fab.
05/10/2005 May 10, 2005 - Raymor Industries Inc. has announced that commercial production of single-walled carbon nanotubes (C-SWNT) has begun at its industrial facility in Montreal.
05/10/2005 May 10, 2005 - Applied Materials has announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has qualified the Applied Centura Gate Stack system with decoupled plasma nitridation (DPN) technology for all its 65nm-generation transistor fabrication processes.
05/10/2005 Interestingly enough, we did not have the feeling of embarking on an adventure when Lutz Weber and I founded thinXXS four years ago. Perhaps that's because you sort of stumble into it. You are so preoccupied with organizing yourself and the business that it is only with hindsight you tend to think of it this way. It is also from today's perspective that I see how I have changed. Not so much as a person, but concerning my perception of the world around me.
05/10/2005 Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology think tank based in Palo Alto, Calif., announced today that it named Jillian Elliott vice president of development
05/09/2005 SARATOGA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/09/2005 -- Total wafer shipments in Q1-2005 (1,465 M sq. in.) have declined 10% from a peak in Q3-2004, but are expected to reach a bottom in the second quarter of 2005, according to Advanced Forecasting, a leading forecasting house. Sales in Q1-2005 declined 1.4% from the previous quarter and were 4.2% lower then Q1-2004.
05/09/2005 WILMINGTON, Mass. & DUNEDIN, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2005--Polychromix, Inc., a leading developer of advanced wavelength management solutions, and Ocean Optics announced a worldwide distribution agreement to market cost-effective spectroscopy solutions for general purpose applications.
05/09/2005 (May 09, 2005) Hsinchu, Taiwan — ChipMOS Technologies Ltd. (ChipMOS) has reported unaudited consolidated financial results for Q1, which concluded March 31st. Revenue was NT$3,340 million (US$106 million), increasing 8% from NT$3,090 million (US$98 million) for the same period one year ago, and a decrease of 9% from NT$3,679 million (US$117 million) for Q4 2004.
05/09/2005 May 9, 2005 - Photronics has announced its strategy to drive advanced photomask R&D through a network of global corporate R&D centers. Photronics said its photomask R&D center in Austin, TX, and the recently launched Photronics-PKL R&D center in Cheon-an, Choong-nam, Korea, are working to develop next generation fabrication processes to manufacture high performance IC products down through the 45nm node.
05/09/2005 May 9, 2005 - Simtek Corp. and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. have announced a comprehensive agreement to jointly develop a 0.13-micron silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) nonvolatile memory process. Under the agreement, Cypress will invest $4 million in 6,740,816 shares of Simtek common stock.
05/09/2005 CHELMSFORD, MA, May 5, 2005 -- Brooks Automation, Inc. announced it has been selected by Veeco Ion Beam Equipment, a business unit of Veeco Instruments Inc., to supply front-end automation systems for Veeco's ion beam product line manufactured at its Plainview, NY
factory.
05/09/2005 John M. Taylor, III, U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs, today announced his decision to leave FDA after a distinguished 14 year career at the agency. Margaret O'K. Glavin, FDA's current Assistant Commissioner in the Office of Counterterrorism Policy and Planning, has been named the new Associate Commissioner.
