03/09/2005 (March 9, 2005) Singapore — STATS ChipPAC announces that it has qualified a new strip-testing process, enabling customers with high-performance mixed-signal and RF devices to migrate from a single-unit test process to a strip test process that improves throughput and reduces the cost of test.
03/09/2005 Polychromix Inc., a Wilmington, Mass., developer of MEMS-based optical communications products, announced yesterday it was demonstrating its P-DCO family of dynamic gain equalizers and wavelength blockers and its P-DCC product line of multi-port wavelength selective switches.
03/08/2005 (March 8, 2005) Singapore — Advanced Interconnect Technologies (AIT) announces the qualification of their new high-reliability (Hi-Rel), narrow-body SOIC packages, allowing them to provide customers with zero delamination after MSL 1, and 260°C pre-conditioning testing to improve overall reliability of the end product. This helps customers get unlimited floor life and cost savings on packaging and shipping of units, while ensuring robustness during critical reliability stress tests.
03/08/2005 Boston, MA - (March 8, 2005) - Newly appointed President of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MBC), Thomas M. Finneran, will greet contamination control technology scientists and technologists from around the globe at the CleanRooms Contamination Control Technology (CCT) Conference & Exhibition being held March 22 and 23 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston.
03/08/2005 March 8, 2005 - Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs today announced the launch of a new research project that aims to use nanotextured surfaces to solve the extreme thermal management challenges of advanced electronic and photonic systems.
03/08/2005 Glimmerglass Networks Inc., an Anaheim, Calif., developer of microphotonics-based fiber optic switch products, announced the availability of what the company maintains is the world's largest fiber switching solution.
03/08/2005 Nano-Tex, the provider of nano-enabled fabric enhancements that has been eagerly watched as a potential hot nano IPO, is expected to announce closing a $35 million Series A round of private financing this morning.
03/07/2005 March 7, 2005 - Sony Corp. said Friday it expects to cut production costs for liquid crystal display televisions by 20% to 30% in the latter half of next fiscal year through design reforms, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. That, along with other steps, would allow Sony to weather likely steady declines in LCD TV prices, the Japanese consumer electronics maker said.
03/07/2005 (March 7, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — Worldwide microchip sales of $18.3 billion in January were 0.5% below December 2004 sales of $18.4 billion, but 17.5% higher than January 2004 sales of $15.6 billion, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reports. SIA points out that January is usually a weak month for microchip sales, following the typically strong holiday season.
03/07/2005 March 7, 2005 - Mitsubishi Materials Corp. plans to more than double its production capacity for CMP (chemical-mechanical polishing) conditioners, a type of polishing tool used in the semiconductor industry, according to Asia Pulse Pte Ltd.
03/07/2005 Micro and nanotech have many supporters, yet few put their money where their mouth is quite like venture capitalists. Four veteran VCs recently took a break from doling out dollars, and put their due diligence to work on a few questions posed by Small Times' Jeff Karoub.
03/04/2005 (March 4, 2005) Napa, Calif. — Royce Instruments has enhanced its global product sales and support organization with new distributors in Taiwan, France, and Germany. Each will handle sales and service in their respective regions of the Royce line of bond test, semiautomatic and automatic die handling, and photonics die handling and test systems.
03/04/2005 In the beginning, government scientists and technologists sought more funding for nanotechnology. In the end, a president name-checked nano in a key speech and within months it was a national initiative. But what or who built the bridge between the lab and Oval Office? Many people and events helped launch the National Nanotechnology Initiative. But a linchpin was Thomas Kalil, President ClintonÂ’s deputy assistant for technology and economic policy.
03/03/2005 March 3, 2005 - Gordon E. Moore, the chemical engineer who in 1968 co-founded Intel, spearheading decades of technological research and developments that made the company a leader in semiconductor manufacturing and technology, has been named the Marconi Society's 2005 Lifetime Achievement recipient. The award will be presented on November 4, at the annual Marconi Society awards dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
