02/25/2004 CO-LOCATED CLEANROOMS EAST 2004/PDA SCITECH SUMMITT SET FOR MARCH 8-12, 2004, IN ORLANDO, FLA.
FEB. 12--Nashua, N.H.--CleanRooms Group of PennWell Corp., publishers of CleanRooms magazine, and PDA, an international association for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical science and technology, have finalized the agenda for conference sessions to be offered at the 2004 CleanRooms East / PDA SciTech Summit at the Orlando County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, March 8-12, 2004.
02/25/2004 February 25, 2004 - Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, has agreed to make an equity investment in Media Lario International SA, an Italian developer of optical components for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.
02/25/2004 February 25, 2004 - Semiconductor equipment orders and sales continued to show strength in January 2004, with both topping $1 billion for the first time in nearly three years, according to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
02/25/2004 Recent collaboration between the University of Houston and local technology miner Cyrospace Inc. is yet another example of how nanotechnology is moving from the lab into the marketplace. But as the university sees it, the research behind a product or process – particularly in nanotechnology – doesn't stop with commercialization. It's important for researchers to follow the process through to licensing deals, product development and eventual deployment into the real world.
02/24/2004 (February 24, 2004) Pleasanton, Calif.—ASAT Holdings Ltd. has released its financial results for Q3 2004, and business is improving. Net revenue in Q3 was $59.6 million, an increase of 50 percent compared to $39.7 million last year.
02/24/2004 February 24, 2004 - Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, said its revenue growth in 2004 will be about 15%, in the middle of earlier forecasts and the same as the projected growth for the entire chip industry.
02/24/2004 February 25, 2004 - Worldwide manufacturers of semiconductor equipment followed up their banner year in 2003 right where they left off, showing "surprisingly strong" sales in the typically slow January period, according to VLSI Research.
02/24/2004 Feb. 24, 2004 – BioForce Nanosciences Inc. (Profile, Web) said Tuesday it plans to launch two new products this year and reported record sales in January for its current line of nanoscale tools.
02/24/2004 Investors interested in tracking nanotechnology finally got what they wanted: a stock index. It comes from investment bank Punk, Ziegel & Co. The index includes 15 publicly traded companies active in nanotechnology, but large-cap firms such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard were not included.
02/23/2004 February 23, 2004 - Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA, has made a pair of acquisitions to bolster its IP portfolio with embedded memory and CMOS transceiver technologies.
02/23/2004 February 23, 2004 - Now in the final stages of factory site selection, Hynix Semiconductor's China affiliate reportedly could begin commercial production of memory chips by 2H05.
02/23/2004 February 23, 2004 - The upcoming IPO of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) could raise up to $1.58 billion, about 5% higher than initial projections, with a projected P/E ratio surpassing both TSMC and UMC.
02/23/2004 British data storage company NanoMagnetics had planned to take on the hard-disk-drive market. But a slump in the sector forced it to change strategy and instead focus on producing a flexible storage medium. DataInk, NanoMagneticsÂ’ new digital memory format, is set to go into commercial production and the company expects to have a product on retailers' shelves by early 2005.
02/23/2004 Micralyne Inc., an Edmonton, Alberta, based MEMS manufacturer, has signed a contract worth more than $2 million to make components for chemical analysis instrumentation, according to a news release.
02/23/2004 Olympus Partnership Development Group (Profile, Web) has added an optical foundry to its MEMS design and manufacturing facility, according to a news release.
02/23/2004 Lightconnect Inc., a Newark, Calif., MEMS component supplier, has launched a variable optical attenuator for free-space optical (FSO) communications, according to a news release
