02/03/2004 FEB. 3--ALBANY, N.Y.--Infineon Technologies AG, Genus Inc., and the University of Albany Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics have signed a letter of intent to enter into a $12 million, three-year partnership to develop next-generation memory devices using atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology.
02/03/2004 FEB. 3--WASHINGTON--Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Tuesday that a white powder found in his office tested positive for the deadly poison ricin, forcing closure of Senate office buildings and close scrutiny of congressional mail. It was the second such scare from a lethal toxin to hit the nation's Capitol.
02/03/2004 February 3, 2004 - A new report from market research firm Strategic Marketing Associates anoints Japan as the new king of semiconductor-equipment capital spending.
02/03/2004 February 3, 2004 - Following impressive earnings announcements by Intel, IBM, and Micron, other global chipmakers and foundries are reporting strong quarterly financial results -- and in a show of support for the industry's recovery, most are planning to significantly boost capital spending this year.
02/03/2004 February 3, 2004 - Worldwide semiconductor sales in 2003 topped $166 billion, besting earlier projections to achieve 18.3% growth, thanks to a big ramp-up in the second half of the year, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
02/03/2004 February 3, 2004 - Toshiba Semiconductor Company has licensed phase-shift mask technology from Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA, to help it ramp to volume production of 65nm process chips.
02/03/2004 (February 3, 2004) Kawasaki, Japan and Taipei, Taiwan—NEC Electronics Corp. and ASE Inc. have announced a strategic partnership, including ASE's acquisition of NEC Electronics' IC packaging and testing operation in Takahata, Yamagata, combined with a 4-year service agreement for ASE to provide IC back-end manufacturing services to NEC Electronics.
02/03/2004 FEB. 2--SHREWSBURY, Mass.--Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), an supplier of magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) related products will provide Laf
02/03/2004 (February 3, 2004) Why do companies continue to work on development of SoC solutions rather than focusing on a SiP solution? This will be the focus of an upcoming 1-day technical symposium presented by the MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council (MEPTEC) organization on February 19. Some of the speakers of the upcoming conference have offered their insights into the pros and cons of the two technologies.
02/03/2004 February 3, 2004 - Hynix Semiconductor Inc. said it is planning to roll out 512Mbit NAND flash memory chips using 120nm technology in February, its first foray into flash memory.
02/03/2004 (February 3, 2004) Munich, Germany—Unitive has selected SUSS lithography equipment to develop
next-generation packaging processes. The equipment installation and process development will take place at Unitive's facility in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
02/03/2004 President Bush has proposed nearly $1 billion in funding for the federal governmentÂ’s nanotechnology initiative under his 2005 budget unveiled Monday. If Congress approves the request, the $982 million in proposed funding for federal nanotechnology initiatives would mark a 2 percent increase over 2004 funding. The presidentÂ’s request, however, falls short of the amounts authorized under the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act.
02/03/2004 (February 2, 2004) Cambridge, Mass.—An MIT device that makes the world's most precise rulers—with "ticks" only a few hundred billionths of a meter apart—may impact fields from the manufacture of computer chips to space physics.
02/03/2004 (February 2, 2004) Fremont, Calif.—ChipPac Inc. has completed customer qualification of single- and stacked-die CSPs and BGAs for 90-nm silicon technology with copper and two types of low-k dielectrics — including an inorganic and an organic dielectric from two foundries.
02/02/2004 (February 2, 2004) San Jose, Calif.—Worldwide sales of semiconductors rose to $166.4 billion in 2003, up 18.3 percent from the $140.8 billion in global revenue recorded in 2002, reports the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
02/02/2004 February 2, 2004 - Sony Group is investing $325 million in IBM's 300mm fab in East Fishkill, NY, to spur production of 65nm chips to be used for Sony's new "Cell" chips.
02/02/2004 February 2, 2004 - The Tokyo District Court has ruled that Nichia Corp. must pay a record 20 billion yen to a former employee for royalties from using a patented blue LED technology.
02/02/2004 Biophan Technologies Inc., a Rochester, N.Y., developer of MRI-related technologies, completed a $2.9 million round of financing, according to a news release.
02/02/2004 NanoSight Ltd. (News, Web), a London developer of nanometer scale imaging technologies, received $182,000 from Britain's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, according to Tim Harper (News, Web), head of nanotech consultancy Cientifica Ltd. (News, Web) and a NanoSight director.
