02/17/2004 At the age of 36, Jackie Ying already had an enviable nine-year career in the chemical engineering department at MIT. But a year ago, rather than remain in a comfortable professorship, she decided to take on a whole new project. Ying went to the opposite side of the world to help nanotechnology develop in Asia.
02/17/2004 (February 16, 2004) San Jose, Calif.—During SEMI's 'Test and Packaging: 2004 and Beyond' lunch forum, held February 12, several interesting trends were noted: unit shipments of IC packages and materials have reached historically high levels; wire bond pitches are nearing their theoretical limit; and alternative business models may be required to cope with the high cost of IC test.
02/16/2004 Whether the subject is a business model or a strand of DNA, U.S. Genomics knows quite a bit about squeezing through tight spaces. The company was founded in 1998 with grand visions of using nanoscale devices to analyze a person’s genome in minutes rather than months. Four years later, researchers were well on their way to that goal – just as demand for such “personalized medicine” devices dried up.
02/16/2004 Do-Coop Technologies, an Israel-based nanobiotechnology company, has launched a water-based reagent for microarrays, protein analysis and other molecular biology research, according to a news release.
02/13/2004 FEB. 12--SANTA CLARA, CALIF.--It was deja vu all over again in the last day of testimony in the IBM cleanroom cancer trial with battles over inconclusive science regarding chemicals and cancer.
02/13/2004 FEB. 13--ALBANY, NY--M+W Zander U.S. Operations Inc., which makes computer chip plants, is relocating one of its regional offices from Nashua, N.H., into the Watervliet Arsenal and creating a training center to teach workers how to build high-tech buildings.
02/13/2004 (February 13, 2004) Albuquerque, NM—Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have developed a new way of mimicking photosynthetic proteins to manipulate platinum at the nanoscale. The method has the potential of changing the metal's properties and benefiting emerging technologies.
02/13/2004 February 13, 2004 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said it is planning for 15% revenue growth in its semiconductor business over the next three years, by focusing efforts on system LSIs and image sensors for consumer devices.
02/13/2004 (February 13, 2004) Chandler, Ariz.—Amkor Technology Inc. has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire a 354,000-sq.-ft. assembly and test facility in Taiwan's Hsinchu Industrial Park from FICTA Technology Inc. This acquisition more than doubles Amkor's potential manufacturing footprint in Taiwan.
02/13/2004 Integrated Sensing Systems Inc. (ISSYS) (Profile, News, Web) received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from NASA to continue its work on MEMS sensors for medical and space applications.
02/12/2004 February 12, 2004 - China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. has filed with US securities regulators for a $714 million initial public offering in Hong Kong and New York.
02/12/2004 (February 12, 2004) Willow Grove, Penn.—Kulicke & Soffa and ASE have formed a strategic relationship between Kulicke & Soffa's Test Products Group and ASE Test Limited. As part of the agreement, K&S will provide onsite services at ASE Test's facilities in Taiwan.
02/12/2004 Zyomyx Inc. (News, Web), a Hayward, Calif.-based developer of biochips for protein analysis, announced it has raised $10 million in funding.
02/12/2004 On a drizzly Saturday afternoon, a couple hundred people have come to the Boone Children’s Gallery at the L.A. County Museum of Art to experience the world of nanotechnology. In a time in which cultural interpretations of nanotechnology are hyping its darkest, most far-fetched visions, the “nano” exhibit is something of a shock.
02/12/2004 Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, will use a $1.5 million grant to design and develop cancer treatments using quantum dots and other nanoscale technologies, according to a news release.
02/11/2004 FEB. 11--FARGO, N.D.--In the basement of a science building on the North Dakota State University campus here, Dean Grier, assistant director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, leads the way into a cleanroom.
02/11/2004 February 11, 2004 - Winbond Electronics Corp. said it is planning to start the $1.3 billion first stage of construction on its 300mm facilitiy in the Central Taiwan Science Park by 3Q04.
02/11/2004 (February 11, 2004) San Jose, Calif.—The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) announced that the amount of funding raised by fabless companies increased sequentially 23 percent quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) in Q4 2003.
02/11/2004 February 11, 2004 - Eight chipmakers were on hand recently in San Francisco, presenting their end products manufactured at the 90nm node using Applied Materials' Black Diamond lowk dielectric film on the company's Producer SE platform.
