05/03/2005 (May 03, 2005) San Jose, Calif.—Worldwide sales of semiconductors grew by 13.2% in the first quarter of 2005 compared to the same period of 2004, reports the SIA. Global sales of semiconductors during the first 3 months of 2005 amounted to $55.3 billion, compared to $48.9 billion in the first quarter of 2004. Sales were up 0.4% sequentially from revenues of $55.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004. March sales, at $18.4 billion, were up 2.2% from the February level of $18.0 billion.
05/03/2005 ANAHEIM, CA and CARLSBAD, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/02/2005 -- 3E Company, the leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, announced at the America's SAP Users Group (ASUG) Annual Conference and Vendor Fair, the release of the Ariel Data Integration Productivity Pack (DIPP).
05/03/2005 May 3, 2005 - SEMI will introduce its "High Tech U" in Singapore next year. The program is a partnership among SEMI, local academic institutions, government, and semiconductor industry companies to introduce high school students to the science of making semiconductors and to career opportunities available within the high-tech industries. It will be the first High Tech U program to be held outside the US.
05/02/2005 (May 02, 2005) Chungli, Taiwan—More details are available today from ASE Inc. about yesterday's fire at its Chungli, Taiwan facilities. The first 4 floors of the 11-floor building that housed part of ASE's operations for the production of interconnect materials were badly damaged. Most of the equipment and inventory on other floors, the majority of which is for semiconductor packaging and test, while not damaged by the fire, were damaged by smoke from the fire.
05/02/2005 NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- With a strike deadline of May 5 at Angelica Textile Services plants nationwide, Bruce Raynor, General President, UNITE HERE, and Andrew Stern, President, SEIU, will host a phone press conference at 11 a.m. EDT Monday to discuss what could become the largest healthcare laundry strike in U.S. history.
05/02/2005 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2005--Artes Medical Inc., a privately held specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company, announced it has begun qualification runs of its flagship product, ArteFill, at its newly completed commercial cGMP manufacturing facility in San Diego.
05/02/2005 CORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2005--Corning Incorporated announced that it will begin supplying a new, advanced diesel particulate filter to light-duty vehicle manufacturers later this year.
05/02/2005 AUSTIN, TX and SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/28/2005 -- SEMATECH and Novellus Systems, Inc. will co-host a critical industry meeting, focusing on ways to extend the use of copper in advanced semiconductors, on June 9 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel in Burlingame, CA.
05/02/2005 HANOVER PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2005--They buy organic. They recycle. They're into yoga, Pilates and environmental causes. And they like commercial-grade equipment in their kitchens. We call them Urbanolas. These millions of affluent urban consumers with a focus on food and health are the new target market for Everpure, which is aiming its market-leading commercial water filtration products at this significant consumer market.
05/02/2005 (May 2, 2005) Taipei, Taiwan — ASE Test Limited announces a first-quarter diluted loss of $0.14 per share, which ended March 31, 2005, under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (U.S. GAAP), compared with diluted earnings of $0.08 per share one year ago, and a diluted loss of $0.41 per share in the fourth quarter of 2004.
05/02/2005 May 2, 2005 - Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. yesterday reported a fire at its semiconductor packaging and testing facilities in Chungli, Taiwan, which caused damage and injuries, but no deaths. The fire broke out at one of ASE's production buildings at approximately 2 pm following what it suspects was a boiler explosion on the ground floor of the 11-story building. The fire was contained by firefighters within two hours.
05/02/2005 May 2, 2005 - NASA is teaming up with Rice University to develop power cables out of carbon nanotubes to lighten the load in spacecraft. Under an $11 million research grant, Rice will try to come up with a way to produce specialized types of nanotubes that will measure about a meter and conduct electricity 10 times more efficiently than metal. Prototypes of the nanotubes are due in 2009.
05/01/2005 Explicitly described, direct comparisons of cultivation-based and genetic-based identification methods have obvious deficiencies within each. Nonetheless, it can be assured that microbial detection will be revealed by one, if not the other. The question remains as to which tools are more sensitive, economically feasible, easily validated, and time-saving.
05/01/2005 By now, regular readers of this magazine have, I’m sure, noticed the special column from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) now appearing in each issue of the publication.
