03/08/2004 MARCH 8--TOKYO--A plasma display panel (PDP) joint venture between Fujitsu Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd said on Monday it planned to nearly triple sales to$1.78 billion by the business year to March 2007.
03/08/2004 MARCH 8--CLEVELAND, Ohio--Muscle fatigue and joint aches and pains are common among people who work in the food processing, food preparation, food service, and related industries.
03/08/2004 Armed with new investment, Nanochip Inc. expects to make a memorable impact on the removable storage market. The Oakland, Calif., firm today received $20 million from a syndicate of institutional and industry investors, including Microsoft Corp. That is about $5 million more than the company sought during its second funding round.
03/05/2004 (March 05, 2004) San Jose, Calif.—A joint venture between California-based Integrated Packaging Assembly Corp. (IPAC) and Twin Advance of Penang, Malaysia is launching a new company called IPAC Twin Advance that will offer advanced module and system-in-package (SiP) development and manufacturing services.
03/05/2004 March 5, 2004 - Samsung Electronics has joined IBM, Chartered, and Infineon in efforts focus on 65nm CMOS logic processes, eventually including 45nm process development.
03/05/2004 MEMSIC Inc., a North Andover, Mass., developer of CMOS-based MEMS accelerometers, opened a 45,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, according to a news release.
03/05/2004 What new tools to improve human performance will emerge from the convergence of nanotech, biotech, infotech and cognitive science? Speculating about potential NBIC applications is easy. Developing novel tools that solve real world problems remains hard. My goal is to explore the political and economic issues that might arise as these converging technologies make possible neurotechnology – tools that influence the brain.
03/05/2004 Sumitomo Corp. and NEC Corp. jointly announced that Sumitomo has licensed Japanese carbon nanotube patents from NEC, according to a news release.
03/04/2004 MARCH 4--PORTLAND, Ore.--Cleanpak International Inc., a cleanroom and air handling equipment supplier, has expanded to China by acquiring Nanjing Purification Factory (NPF), a cleanroom manufacturing and construction company owned by Nanjing Electrical Machinery and Industrial Group (NEMIG).
03/04/2004 thinXXS GmbH, a Mainz, Germany-based developer of microfluidic and micro-optic components and systems in plastics, announced its Snake-Mixer, designed to mix tiny quantities of liquids easily and inexpensively. The company will introduce the device at the Hannover Fair in April.
03/04/2004 Ion Optics Inc., a Waltham, Mass., developer of optical MEMS gas detection sensors, announced that it is working with MEMS manufacturer Innnovative Micro Technology (IMT) of Santa Barbara, Calif., to move its SensorChip products into production.
03/04/2004 Want to know the true identity of that mystery meat in today's funky-smelling lunch special, or whether your vegetarian meal is actually animal-product free? According to French biological diagnostics company bioMerieux, the FoodExpert-ID biochip is the first high-throughput gene chip for testing food and animal feed. It's based on DNA microarray technology from partner Affymetrix Inc.
03/03/2004 MARCH 3--WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A $100 million lawsuit blaming a woman's birth defects on her mother's working conditions at an IBM factory was settled Tuesday as jury selection was about to begin. The terms were not disclosed.
03/03/2004 MARCH 3--PITTSBURGH--Carnegie Mellon University's Nanofabrication Facility is becoming home-sweet-home for a handful of technology startups using tiny computer chips that can improve the sound in cell phones or gauge damage done to a disk drive when dropped by a user.
03/03/2004 March 3, 2004 - Former Toshiba Corp. engineer Fujio Masuoka has filed a suit in the Tokyo District Court seeking 1 billion yen ($9.2 million) from his former employer for his contributions toward the creation of flash memory.
03/03/2004 Is society ready for NBIC? As nano, bio, info and cognitive technology converge, proponents of NBIC (the somewhat clunky acronym for this multitech intersection), are calling for the legal, ethical and regulatory implications to be considered from the beginning. The architect of the National Nanotechnology Initiative says "society needs to be prepared for the major changes to come."
03/02/2004 March 2, 2004 - Demand for Japanese-made semiconductor equipment continues to be led by backend operations, but signs of a shift may be starting to appear, according to the latest figures from the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ).
