03/14/2005 Today 10 states earned bragging rights for being among the hottest regions for one of the hottest new technologies. Making Small Times' list of the top 10 states for micro and nanotechnology brings prestige to the winners and perhaps consternation to their contenders. But the real rewards, state economic developers know, will come later.
03/11/2005 (March 11, 2005) Willow Grove, Pa. — Kulicke & Soffa Industries (K&S) announces the sale of its wedge bonder technology to Irvine, Calif.-based Orthodyne Electronics. The sale includes both the design of wedge bonding machines and the licensing of intellectual property.
03/11/2005 March 11, 2005 -- Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $37.08 billion in 2004, representing a year-over-year increase of 67.1%, said SEMI in its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (SEMS) Report.
03/11/2005 FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2005--Asyst Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASYT), today announced that its Asyst EIB(TM) and NexEDA(TM) software products have been selected by two large semiconductor equipment manufacturers for implementation on their tools.
03/11/2005 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2005--Bio-Matrix Scientific Group Inc. (Pink Sheets:BMXG) today announced that it has a new website, designed to provide communications with business partners, institutions and investors about the Company.
03/11/2005 HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2005--Biolog, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a phase I SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health NIAID Biodefense Program.
03/11/2005 EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2005--Chiron Corporation (Nasdaq:CHIR) today announced that it has received notice from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) that the agency has lifted the license suspension for Chiron's Liverpool manufacturing facility, which produces FLUVIRIN(R) influenza virus vaccine.
03/11/2005 WEST CHESTER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2005--Animas Corporation (NASDAQ:PUMP), a leading manufacturer of insulin pumps, reported today that, on February 28, 2005, it received a Warning Letter from the Philadelphia District Office of the Food and Drug Administration.
03/11/2005 SPOKANE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2005--GenPrime, Inc., the leading American developer of rapid, broad-spectrum screening systems for use in bio-warfare defense, today announced the continued rollout of its Prime Alert(R) biodetection field test kit by the Georgia Mutual Aid Group (GMAG), a statewide consortium of more than 700 fire departments.
03/11/2005 FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2005--IMS Health (NYSE: RX), the world's leading provider of information and consulting solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, today announced that audited and estimated unaudited global pharmaceutical sales grew 7 percent constant dollar in 2004 to US $550 billion.
03/11/2005 LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2005--Smallcap Insights, www.SmallcapInsights.com, the online source for exclusive commentary, research, interviews and other key investor information, has announced the availability of an audio interview given by Michael Weiner, CEO of Biophan Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:BIPH), a developer of next-generation biomedical technology.
03/11/2005 (March 11, 2005) Dublin, Ireland — Research and Markets announces the release of their new report, "Packaging and Assembly Services for MST/MEMS — Worldwide", to their current offering. The infrastructure for MST/MEMS development and production is growing fast—many foundries and design houses have been established over the past few
years which cover most, if not all of the required technologies for commercializing nano- and micro-technology.
03/11/2005 March 11, 2005 - The worldwide market for semiconductor manufacturing equipment expanded by nearly two-thirds in 2004, its second-highest performance ever behind the historic year 2000, according to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
03/10/2005 (March 10, 2005) Santa Clara, Calif. — National Semiconductor announces that it is seeking a buyer for its assembly and test plant in Toa Payoh, Singapore. The move is a part of the ongoing restructuring of the company to focus its activities on higher-value-add analog ICs, and to reduce its exposure to commodity linear and digital markets. In January, the company announced layoffs of 550 people as an effort to restructure.
03/10/2005 March 10, 2005 - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), PowerChip Semiconductor Corp. (PSC), and Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp. (VISC) are planning to spend over NT$300 billion (US$9.6 billion) on expansions at the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSBIP) in northern Taiwan, said Financial Times Information Ltd. The three Taiwanese chipmakers will build a total of five 300mm wafer fabs.
