01/26/2004 January 26, 2004 - Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, will invest $20 million over three years in Cymer Inc., San Diego, CA, to help develop extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.
01/26/2004 (January 26, 2004) San Jose, Calif.—Tessera Technologies Inc. and Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. have signed a new licensing agreement. Oki and their subcontract assemblers plan to use Tessera's semiconductor packaging technology in devices such as microcontrollers and ASICs.
01/26/2004 Opinion: Now that the nanotechnology bill has passed, it is important to avoid developing a stagnant “technocracy.” We need to embrace dynamism – a world that allows for constant creation, discovery and competition. To make this happen, we continuously must work with government leaders on creating an entrepreneurial environment.
01/26/2004 NVE Corp., an Eden Prairie, Minn., developer of spintronics technology, has been awarded about $450,000 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, according to a news release.
01/23/2004 JAN. 23--MINNEAPOLIS--August Technology Corp., a supplier of inspection and metrology solutions for the microelectronic industries, announced the expansion of their Taiwan operations in Hsinchu to better serve the growing number of customers in this region.
01/23/2004 January 23, 2004 - Toshiba Corp. said it has developed a multi-chip package that can stack nine layers, with 70-micron chip thickness and an overall thickness of 1.4mm -- the same as the company's 6-layer, 85-micron chip stack.
01/23/2004 (January 23, 2004) Chandler, Ariz.— Amkor Technology Inc., citing an accelerating demand for advanced packaging solutions for cell phones and other handheld applications, is aggressively expanding capacity for stacked chip-scale packages (S-CSPs). Amkor's factories in Korea and Japan already produce stacked packages. The company will install S-CSP capacity in its factories in Taiwan and China early in 2004.
01/23/2004 Opinion: The nanotech act of 2003 is one for the history books. Future marketing students might marvel at how a group of salesmen achieved total political victory – complete with requisite silencing of dissenters.
01/22/2004 JAN. 22--SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The plaintiffs in the cleanroom cancer suit against IBM Corp. have rested their case, and at press time, Big Blue was ready to present a defense that will challenge testimony from former company nurse, Audrey Misako Crouch, who said it was an unwritten policy among the computer giant's medical staff to never utter chemicals as the cause for worker ailments.
01/22/2004 A number of new research parks have opened in the Asia-Pacific region in the past few months, illustrating an increased level of commitment by local governments toward investment in nanotechnology and related fields. Among the new centers is Singapore's Biopolis research park, aimed at establishing bio and nanotech businesses.
01/22/2004 MEMSCAP SA (News, Web), a France and Silicon Valley-based MEMS designer and manufacturer, released a second version of its MemsMaster design tool, according to a news release.
01/21/2004 (January 21, 2004) Willow Grove, Penn.—Kulicke & Soffa's financial results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2004, ended December 31, 2003, show that revenue was $160.4 million for the chip assembly and test interconnect services provider—compared to revenue in the quarter ended December 2002 of $111.4 million.
01/21/2004 (January 21, 2004) St. Peters, Miss.—MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. has entered into an agreement with IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) to join its Industrial Affiliation Program (IIAP) that targets the implementation of high-mobility layers and advanced source/drain engineering solutions in scaled planar devices, as well as to license IMEC's strained silicon technology.
01/21/2004 January 21, 2004 - Jazz Semiconductor, a Newport Beach, CA-based wafer foundry, has filed with the SEC for an initial public offering of common stock.
01/21/2004 January 21, 2004 - The Semiconductor Industry Association (ITRS) has released the 2003 edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), which provides detailed technical guidance and milestones for semiconductor manufacturing for the next 15 years.
01/21/2004 January 21, 2004 - Litigation brought by International Rectifier Corp. against Hitachi Ltd. and Renesas Technology Corp., Hitachi's JV with Mitsubishi Electric, has been settled, with all parties reaching patent cross-licensing agreement.
01/21/2004 January 21, 2004 - MEMC Electronic Materials, St. Peters, MO, has agreed to license strained silicon technology from European consortium IMEC, and bonded-SOI wafer transfer technology from Silicon Genesis Corp.
01/21/2004 January 21, 2004 - ASML and European research center IMEC have extended their collaboration on immersion lithography with the planned launch of an industrial affiliation program for 193nm liquid immersion lithography.
01/21/2004 January 21, 2004 - Nanometrics, Milpitas, CA, has signed a deal to supply metrology units to be integrated into Tokyo-based Hitachi High-Technologies' (HHT) semiconductor inspection products.
