02/11/2004 February 11, 2004 - A device created at MIT makes the most precise measurement device of all: the Nanoruler, with "ticks" a few hundred-billionths of a meter apart.
02/11/2004 February 11, 2004 - Kulicke & Soffa, Willow Grove, PA, and the ASE Group have formed a strategic relationship, whereby K&S' Test Products Group will provide onsite services at ASE Test Ltd's facilities in Taiwan.
02/11/2004 It's a battery! It's a power pump! It's Super Capacitor! Supercapacitors work like short-acting, but high-power, batteries. While the first supercapacitor was sold in 1978, improved performance and lower prices in recent years are expanding the market for them. That has caught the attention of companies working on nanomaterials.
02/10/2004 FEB. 10--SANTA CLARA, Calif.--An immunologist testified in the IBM cleanroom cancer trial that symptoms exhibited by one of the plaintiffs while he worked at the computer company's San Jose plant were not signs of chemical poisoning.
02/10/2004 (February 10, 2004) Willow Grove, Penn.—Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. has sold all the assets associated with its advanced packaging technology segment, which consisted solely of the flip chip business.
02/10/2004 (February 10, 2004) Singapore and Fremont, Calif.—STATS and ChipPAC have signed a definitive agreement to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction that will result in an independent semiconductor assembly and test solutions company that is one of the larger test houses in the world.
02/10/2004 Rival developers of drug-releasing stents have been battling for supremacy on the patent front. Now, there are issues of safety on the patient front as the two-way tussle moves to the marketplace. Boston Scientific Corp. is preparing early this year to follow Johnson & JohnsonÂ’s Cordis Corp. into the U.S. market with its own tiny, pop-up scaffolding implanted in arteries to keep them open and free of clogs.
02/10/2004 Nanosys Inc. (Profile, News, Web), a Palo Alto, Calif., developer of nanotechnology-enabled systems using inorganic semiconductors, named Michael Barnes vice president of technology development systems and Matthew Bigge director of corporate development, according to a news release.
02/10/2004 Molecular Imprints Inc., an Austin, Texas, developer of nanolithography tools, sold its Imprio 100 tool to South KoreaÂ’s National Nanofab Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, as well as to a northern California-based electronics company, according to a news release.
02/09/2004 FEB. 9--ANKRON, Ohio--FedEx Custom Critical, Inc., a provider of expedited time-critical shipments, now offers a validated solution for temperature-sensitive shipments through its latest service, TEMP-ASSURE Validated.
02/09/2004 February 9, 2004 - Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc., Willow Grove, PA, said it has sold its flip-chip business to FlipChip International LLC for $3.4 million in cash and liabilities.
02/09/2004 February 9, 2004 - Charles Kau, executive VP at Nanya Technology Corp., has been named president of Inotera Memories Inc. effective March 1.
02/09/2004 February 9, 2004 - Isonics Corp., Golden, CO, a developer of isotopically-engineered semiconductor materials, has closed a $2.2 million private placement to fund its radioisotope product line.
02/09/2004 Joseph Piche is a garrulous man for someone who canÂ’t talk about his work. Ask how business is going at Eikos Inc., and the answer might involve a conversation that meanders from the conductivity of carbon nanotubes to sci-fi films. Yet Piche will hint that his business of developing transparent, conductive coatings is going quite well.
02/09/2004 The Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) trade group has published 25 new technical standards for the semiconductor and flat-panel display industries, according to a news release.
02/06/2004 February 6, 2004 - A recent report from the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) concludes that by 2010, the semiconductor industry will grow to $360 billion, with more than one-third of industry revenue coming from outsourced operations.
02/06/2004 FEB. 5--BURLINGTON, Mass--EM4 Inc., a provider of contract design and manufacturing services for photonics and integrated optics, claims it has launched a breakthrough manufacturing process.
02/06/2004 Feb. 6, 2004--DRESDEN, Germany--Infineon Technologies will expand the Memory Development Center at its location here with the aim of further strengthening its DRAM and flash products.
02/06/2004 February 6, 2004 - Corning Inc., Rochester, NY, reportedly plans to invest $600 million to expand manufacturing of LCD glass at its facilities in Taiwan and Japan over the next two years.
