04/20/2005 April 20, 2005 - Global orders for Japanese semiconductor manufacturing equipment fell 14.1% in March from a year earlier to Y115.38 billion, according to preliminary data released Tuesday by SEAJ, said the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
04/20/2005 April 20, 2005 - North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.02 billion in orders in March 2005 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.81, according to SEMI's March 2005 Book-to-Bill Report.
04/20/2005 Oregon's nanotechnology initiative appears to be holding steady even if one of its leading industrial supporters has faced a bumpy start this year. Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI), one of the state's signature research centers, is on the docket for more state and federal funding, and continues to win the support of its business and political leaders.
04/19/2005 CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2005--Robert Brehm, CEO of U.S. Microbics, Inc., announced today that Worldwide Water Systems, Inc. (WWSI), its joint venture with C. Trade Group, is preparing to take delivery of its initial order of four water machines from WaterChef, Inc.
04/19/2005 By J. Robert Lineback, Senior Technical Editor
During the past nine years, South Korea's $20 billion-plus chip industry has been hammered and reshaped by a variety of financial and semiconductor market forces. What has emerged is a more diversified semiconductor supplier base in Korea, consisting of four major chipmakers pursuing very different business models, but memory products still dominate the country's output.
04/19/2005 The traditional three leaders - TSMC, UMC, and Chartered - continued to dominate the pure-play IC foundry market in 2004, according to a new ranking by IC Insights. But a wider look at the top foundries shows that hungry Chinese foundries are staking their claim in the industry, led by up-and-coming SMIC, which more than doubled its sales in 2004 to nearly $1.0 billion.
04/19/2005 April 19, 2005 - Raytheon Co.'s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) has been awarded a three-year, $26.9 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract with a potential award value of $59.4 million if all program options are exercised. The program will optimize and refine the use of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors for use in military and civilian systems. Raytheon is the prime contractor, having teamed with Cree Inc. on this leading edge technology.
04/19/2005 April 19, 2005 - Sematech has announced its top technical challenges for 2006, continuing to underscore advanced gate stack, 193nm immersion and EUV lithography, mask infrastructure, and low-k dielectrics with process compatibility. Consortium leaders also placed planar bulk transistor scaling on the list for the first time.
04/19/2005 April 19, 2005 - Toshiba Corp. in late May will release an LCD television equipped with a hard-disk drive, the firm said Monday, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The high-definition LCD TV, which is compatible with terrestrial digital broadcasting, features a 160GB hard-drive recorder that enables users to record programs without a DVD recorder.
04/19/2005 (April 19, 2005) San Diego, Calif. — KIC has recently promoted Marybeth (MB) Allen to the position of General Manager - Europe, in which she will develop the KIC thermal-process products market throughout Europe. Lead-free conversion is driving European manufacturers to improve their thermal processes; therefore, the European market is seeking new tools, such as KIC's profilers and process optimization and control tools.
04/19/2005 NEW WINDSOR, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/18/2005 -- The GretagMacbeth Munsell Color Assurance Laboratory announced that it has developed a new color standard for use on the International Space Station. Astronauts will use the new color standard to detect the presence of Hydrazine upon returning from a space walk.
04/19/2005 GENEVA, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STMicroelectronics revealed successful fabrication of the MIPHY (Multi-Interface PHY) Physical Layer interface IP (Intellectual Property) using 90nm technology.
04/18/2005 TSMC preps 193nm immersion 'risk' production; others still see no technical showstoppers
By J. Robert Lineback
The first wave of production-worthy 193nm immersion scanners now appears to be a shoo-in for at least part of the 65nm process generation and probably the entire 45nm node at decade's end, but industry managers and researchers speaking at the annual SPIE International Symposium on Microlithography attempted to rein in some of the unbridled enthusiasm with...
