03/03/2005 (March 3, 2005) Hong Kong and Pleasanton, Calif. — ASAT Holdings Limited announces their financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2005, which ended January 31.
03/02/2005 (March 2, 2005) Hong Kong and Pleasanton, Calif. — ASAT Holdings Limited announces that SigmaTel Inc. has completed qualification and is ramping production on lead-free and green fine-pitch BGAs (fpBGAs) in ASAT's new manufacturing facility in Dongguan, China.
03/02/2005 March 2, 2005 - Ziptronix has appointed 17-year semiconductor industry veteran Phil Nyborg as its new president and CEO. The company said that Nyborg will guide it as it more fully commercializes its proprietary bonding and interconnect processes for 3DICs.
03/02/2005 Lightconnect, a Newark, Calif., developer of MEMS-based components and modules for optical networks, announced today that it recently shipped its 40,000th variable optical attenuator (VOA) to a large optical system manufacturer.
03/02/2005 A good week for Steven Oldenburg goes something like this: First he learned that his infant startup beat out about 2,000 competitors to win a NASA award to develop a nanofluidic coolant system. Then he received an order to supply a researcher with nanoparticles for toxicology studies.
“We got our first sale and our first SBIR,” he said, referring to the Small Business Innovation Research award from NASA and the request from a team of toxicology experts to make nanoparticles.
03/01/2005 (March 1, 2005) Midland, Mich. — Dow Corning introduces EA-6700 microelectronic adhesive, a new lid-seal material based on a chemistry that is suited for the latest generations of flip chip semiconductor packages. Adhesives for lid assembly, also referred to as cap assembly, are integral to the production of flip chip devices. To ensure device reliability, lid-seal adhesives face the challenge of withstanding high humidity, temperature cycling, and extreme operating conditions.
03/01/2005 March 1, 2005 - Intel Corp. has said it is buying Yokne'am-based digital screen display company Oplus Technologies. The value of the deal was not disclosed, but sources said it was $100 million, according to the Palestine Post Ltd.
03/01/2005 (March 1, 2005) Chaska, Minn. — Entegris announces that they have signed a license patent agreement with one of its three Japanese competitors in the wafer-carrier market. The agreement includes royalty payments to Entegris for past and future shipments of 300-mm wafer carriers by the Japanese company. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, nor was the Japanese company identified.
03/01/2005 SAN JOSE, Calif.-A software platform for pharmaceutical manufacturers promises to support FDA 21st Century cGMPs by letting companies span one or multiple manufacturing sites, tightly integrate quality management procedures with manufacturing operations and IT, and reduce the cost of FDA compliance.
03/01/2005 Polychromix Inc., a developer of advanced wavelength management solutions for optical systems, yesterday announced the launch of its Near Infrared Digital Transform Spectrometer (DTS) product family. Based on a MEMS spatial light modulator, the devices are designed to be compact, low cost chemical analysis systems.
03/01/2005 The Food and Drug Administration (www.fda.gov) has announced a new draft, Guidance for Industry: ANDAs-Impurities in Drug Substances, that provides revised recommendations on what chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) information to include regarding the reporting, identification, and qualification of impurities in drug substances produce by chemical synthesis.
03/01/2005 ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.-Cleanroom users and administrators attending ESTECH 2005-the 51st annual meeting and exposition of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology
03/01/2005 Semi tester makes move to Class 10,000 environment
The move from Sunnyvale to San Jose has also meant a new name for InTEST's TestDesign division: InTEST Silicon Valley Corp. Corporate headquarters are in Cherry Hill, N.J.
03/01/2005 ROCKVILLE, Md.-Lester M. Crawford, DVM, acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (www.fda.gov) since March 2004, has been nominated by President Bush to serve as the agency's next commissioner.
03/01/2005 SALEM, N.H.-Boston Analytical, Inc., an independent, cGMP-compliant, contract-testing lab in Salem, N.H. (www.bostonanalytical.com), has built a new 2,500-square-foot facility designated specifically for microbiological testing.
03/01/2005 FREMONT, Calif.-Two recently introduced, hands-free process optimization tools for semiconductor fabrication measure real-time, in situ temperature in solder reflow applications.
