04/13/2005 April 13, 2005 - Golden Gate Capital has acquired TDK Semiconductor Corp. for an undisclosed sum from TDK U.S.A. Corp., a subsidiary of Japan-based TDK Corp. and regional headquarters for TDK's operations in the Americas, said the Asia Pulse Pte Ltd.
04/13/2005 (April 13, 2005) Morris Township, N.J. — As part of its product portfolio for semiconductor manufacturing, Honeywell announces the availability of its "wafer-thinning materials," which will be produced at Honeywell's new Electronic Materials manufacturing site in Chandler, Ariz., as well as at their Seelze, Germany facility.
04/12/2005 Nashua, N.H. — Advanced Packaging Magazine is looking for your latest and greatest products to feature in our July 2005 SEMICON West 2005 Product Preview. If your company plans on exhibiting at SEMICON West 2005, to be held July 11-15, 2005, in San Francisco, Calif., please submit your product press release, preferably with an accompanying electronic image*, to Lee Mather, Advanced Packaging assistant editor, by May 10, 2005.
04/12/2005 PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2005--Launch of SAS Drug Development 3.0 provides unmatched insight into clinical trials through powerful data integration and analysis.
04/12/2005 BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2005--MedMined, Inc., a medical information technology company, today announced the introduction of the Nosocomial Infection Marker (NIM), a new feature of its Data Mining Surveillance technology that for the first time allows an accurate, electronic measurement of the incidence of hospital-acquired infections.
04/12/2005 ROLLING MEADOWS, IL (April 12, 2005) Registration is now open for the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) online education course, Biocontamination. Online registration can be found at http://www.iest.org/education/education.htm.
04/12/2005 April 12, 2005 - Sharp Corp. said Monday it has inked a contract to buy the liquid crystal display business and related patents of Fujitsu Ltd., formalizing a basic agreement announced in February, according to various news reports.
04/12/2005 April 12, 2005 - Mattson Technology Inc. has announced the shipment of an enhanced version of its Aspen III Highlands system to Sematech, Austin, TX. The 300mm system is being installed at ATDF, Sematech's R&D wafer fab, which also supports external customers.
04/12/2005 Ecology Coatings of Akron, Ohio, announced a licensing deal Monday with DuPont Performance Coatings allowing DuPont to manufacture and sell Ecology Coating's products for use in North American automotive applications.
04/11/2005 (April 12, 2005) Davis, Calif. — "Nanobridges" appear like a row of columns that are small enough for atomic-scale hide-and-seek, but these colonnades represent a new way of bringing nanotechnology, the ability to create and work with structures and materials on an atomic scale, into mass production. But while researchers, however, have created tiny silicon wires and connected them together one at a time, these methods cannot easily be scaled up.
04/11/2005 ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2005--Ecolab Inc. has introduced a new waterless surgical hand antiseptic that, based on independent testing and available public literature, is not only the strongest formulation on the market, but also the mildest for the hands and skin.
04/11/2005 (April 11, 2005) Crolles, France — Crolles2 Alliance partners STMicroelectronics, Philips, and Freescale Semiconductor have reached an introductory agreement to create and validate system-on-chip (SoC) intellectual property (IP) blocks. The agreement, however, remains subject to the contract conclusion between all three partners.
04/08/2005 (April 8, 2005) Atlanta, Ga. — Rao R. Tummala, Pettit Chair Professor in Microsystems Packaging at the Georgia Institute of Technology's (Georgia Tech) Packaging Research Center, and Advanced Packaging Editorial Advisory Board member, has recently authored the industry's first introductory textbook in microsystems packaging, appropriately titled, Fundamentals of Microsystems Packaging.
04/08/2005 CARLSBAD, CA & PALO ALTO, CA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2005--Invitrogen Corp. and Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced a two-year agreement to co-market the PathAlert Detection System, a cost-effective screening and confirmatory detection system for infectious agents.
04/08/2005 Start-up water filtration business Filter Clear announced plans to open a new manufacturing operation near Glasgow and bring to market a revolutionary water filtering system.
