03/02/2004 March 2, 2004 - UMCi, the Singapore-based 300mm fab of United Microelectronics (UMC), has started volume production with "good wafer yields" of copper interconnect-based chips for FPGA and wireless communications.
03/02/2004 MARCH 2--NEW YORK--The antibacterial soaps, laundry detergents and other household cleaning products that have become increasingly popular in recent years apparently offer little protection against the most common germs, the first major test in people's homes has found.
03/02/2004 MARCH 2--MILPITAS, Calif.--In an effort to meet the growing global demand for contamination control monitoring in manufacturing environments, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions has expanded operations into Amsterdam, Holland.
03/02/2004 The day after HP's "n is for nanotechnology" commercial ran during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in September 2003, Fred Filler's phone started ringing. The marketing manager with book publisher Wiley & Sons had long been telling colleagues that nanotechnology was a subject they'd be hearing more about. Today, Wiley is one of several publishers with a growing focus on small tech titles.
03/01/2004 March 1, 2004 - Renesas Technology Corp. has filed a complaint in Tokyo District Court against Nanya Technology Corp.'s Japan subsidiary, alleging "willful" misuse of two memory-related patents.
03/01/2004 MARCH 1--EAST HILLS, N.Y.--By using an advanced purification technology from Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) the Thai Red Cross Society has significantly increased production and purity of Equine Antirabies Immunoglobulins (ERIG) used to cure rabies in humans.
03/01/2004 (March 01, 2004) San Jose, Calif.—Worldwide sales of semiconductors rose 26.6 percent year-over-year to $15.5 billion in January 2004, from the $12.28 billion recorded in January 2003. Sales also recorded a typical month-over-month decrease in January 2004 of 3 percent from December 2003, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported today.
03/01/2004 Microfabrica Inc., a manufacturer of micro devices and microsystems, closed on $15 million in Series B financing, according to a news release.
03/01/2004 William Lee long suspected that nanostructured, intelligent membranes could solve many problems in one broad brush. His startup company aims to prove that theory right. eMembrane Inc. has developed a technology to graft nanoscale filaments onto a polymer surface. Those filaments can then be customized to bind to specific targets as they wash across the surface – much like a hairbrush captures hair in its bristles.
03/01/2004 Verimetra Inc., a Pittsburgh-based maker of MEMS devices for the medical industry, received a $100,000 grant to develop tools and technologies that would help surgeons perform fetal heart surgeries.
03/01/2004 William R. Acorn, a Tucson, Ariz.-based HVAC expert, testified in the ongoing cleanroom cancer trial that IBM Corp.'s disk drive plant in San Jose was adequately ventilated, contradicting prior testimony from a plaintiff witness who said the entire facility was negatively pressurized, causing controlled environments to be starved of fresh air.
03/01/2004 In a move designed to allow greater focus on its core businesses of pharmaceuticals and chemicals, Merck KgaAa has sold its cleanroom and contamination-control product distribution business, VWR International, for $1.68 billion to a private equity firm.
03/01/2004 Editor's note: This article is the first in a two-part series on how customized computer-based courses, called QuickLearns, have revolutionized the way knowledge is transferred at manufacturing plants.
03/01/2004 As micro- and molecular-contamination continue to be growing concerns in the semiconductor and microelectronics industries, technologies that combat such threats to processes are gaining greater market acceptance, yielding solid growth—and, most recently a collaboration to the tune of an acquisition.
03/01/2004 Steve Wood, chief of emergency preparedness for San Diego County in southern California, is doing what he can to be ready for a bioterrorist attack—or, a plane load of unlucky passengers.
03/01/2004 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking an increase of $65 million for fiscal year 2005 to boost its food security activities—part of a new interdepartmental program for the defense of the nation's food supply.
03/01/2004 FedEx Corp., a global provider of transportation, e-commerce and supply chain management services, is now offering parenteral drug manufacturers a way to ship temperature-sensitive products.
