04/05/2005 FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2005--Applied Biosystems Group, an Applera Corporation business, together with its joint venture partner MDS Sciex, a division of MDS Inc., today announced the launch of two new mass spectrometers, the 3200 Q TRAP and the API 3200 LC/MS/MS Systems with Turbo V Source for added sensitivity, throughput, and cost-effectiveness in mass spectrometry-based workflows.
04/05/2005 SALT LAKE CITY, UT -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/01/2005 -- LipidViro Tech, Inc. recently presented research demonstrating inactivation of prions in biological fluids to the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee.
04/04/2005 (April 4, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — Normally a weak month for microchip sales, worldwide sales of $18.1 billion in February were 2% below the revised January sales of $18.4 billion, but were 15.8% higher than February 2004 sales of $15.6 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
04/04/2005 April 4, 2005 - Nikon Instruments Inc. has announced the integration of two high precision industrial metrology business units, Semiconductor Inspection, and Nexiv Vision Measuring Systems, under the SITECH Division located in Tempe, AZ. Two new departments have been established within the division: Vision Systems and Semiconductor Inspection.
04/01/2005 New technology developed by QinetiQ, Malvern, UK, is to be used by Tronic's Microsystems SA, Crolles, France, for the volume production of innovative micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) devices. The technology teams will collaborate to achieve process design and compatibility, including full process statistics.
04/01/2005 By Debra Vogler, Senior Technical Editor
A panel on strain engineering at the recent IEDM conference featured experts in favor of different approaches. The two take-aways representing the consensus, according to panel moderator Professor Scott Thompson of the U. of Florida, were that strain engineering is real, and that IC manufacturers should use all improvements possible using strain as long as they are additive.
04/01/2005 AUSTIN, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/31/2005 -- Industry giant Samsung Electronics will join the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) as the newest member of the manufacturing-oriented semiconductor consortium, effective April 1.
04/01/2005 (April 1, 2005) Minneapolis — August Technology Corp. announces that Lynn Davis has been named as its new president and COO, as well as also having been elected to the Board of Directors.
04/01/2005 April 1, 2005 - International DisplayWorks Inc., a designer and manufacturer of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), modules and assemblies, has announced an agreement to purchase all the outstanding stock of Three-Five System's LCD manufacturing facility and business in Beijing, China. Closing of the transaction, which is subject to normal conditions, is expected to occur within two weeks.
04/01/2005 April 1, 2005 - Samsung Electronics will join the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) as the newest member of the consortium, effective today, ISMI officials announced. A subsidiary of SEMATECH, ISMI was formed last year to help chip manufacturers improve factory productivity and reduce cost/wafer, and ultimately cost/die.
04/01/2005 DEERFIELD, IL-The merger of two pillars of Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturing has resulted in a new corporation that ranks in the top 20 globally and a U.S. operations that will be headquartered here amidst the growing pharmaceutical industry in Illinois.
04/01/2005 EAST HILLS, N.Y.-On the heels of a recent market study indicating that Asia is driving-and will continue to drive over the next several years-the cleanrooms hardware and garment market, filtration/purification developer Pall Corp. (www.pall.com) has opened a new manufacturing facility in Beijing, China, and has named Jon Weiner the first president of Pall Microelectronics Asia.
04/01/2005 EAST HILLS, N.Y.-A point-of-use water purification technology, designed specifically for research and diagnostic laboratories, is promising to deliver high-purity water through a series of separation and purification steps. Pall Corp.’s (www.pall.com) Cascada lab water system combines four polishing systems with customized configurations designed to meet a wide range of sensitive applications required for high-quality, ultrapure water in the lab.
04/01/2005 ROCKVILLE, MD.-Recent warnings and guidance by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA; www. fda.gov) are sending a strong message to medical device manufacturers about the importance of submitting FDA 510(k) premarket notification when introducing new products.
04/01/2005 PALO ALTO, Calif.-Rapid advancements in the IC industry, says a report by industry research firm Frost & Sullivan (www.frost.com), are prompting increased demand for new or improved front-end semiconductor manufacturing technologies, such as wafer cleaning and thin-layer deposition.
