01/12/2004 Calient Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif., provider of MEMS-based photonic switching systems and software, announced the closure of $20 million in fourth round funding.
01/09/2004 JAN. 9--UOZU, Japan--Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand, is investing $1.2 billion to build a new semiconductor facility aimed at making chips for DVDs, digital TVs, mobile communications equipment, SD memory cards and network-related equipment.
01/09/2004 (January 9, 2004) San Jose, Calif.—Integrated Packaging Assembly Corporation (IPAC), an IC packaging foundry, has announced its intention to become a major supplier of wafer-level packaging (WLP). Their packaging services include thin film processing, wafer bumping, chip singulation and testing.
01/09/2004 A new model for collaboration is one that involves industry more directly in education. State governments are competing to attract high-tech activities and this means building upon research universities. And industry is becoming more heavily involved at educational institutions. These are signs that the U.S. educational system is evolving to meet these new challenges.
01/08/2004 (January 8, 2004) Pleasanton, Calif.—ASAT Holdings Ltd. intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, approximately $125 million aggregate principal amount of its Senior Notes due 2011, through an offering within the U.S. to qualified institutional buyers.
01/08/2004 JAN 1---TAIPEI--An ongoing analog chip shortage and strong demand before the Chinese New Year holidays have led to more fake analog chips showing up in China, according to sources with Taiwan-based analog IC design companies.
01/08/2004 JAN. 8--SHANGHAI--Driven by the recovery of the global semiconductor market and soaring demand from domestic electronics manufacturers, China's semiconductor foundry industry grew rapidly in 2003, setting the stage for the country to play a bigger role in the global chip-making business in 2004 and beyond
01/08/2004 JAN 7--ENDICOTT, N.Y.--IBM says that it can clean up most of the groundwater pollution its accused of causing in the Village, but the timetable might be a lot longer than many residents would like.
01/08/2004 JAN. 2--TAIWAN--Government officials are looking for a boost to the nation's economic strength from increased private investment as it projects private investment will jump by around 20 percent this year.
01/08/2004 DEC. 30--DALMELLINGTON, Ayrshire, Scotland--A 20-year-old man has died and five of his friends fell ill after popping contaminated ecstasy, the Scotsman newspaper reported.
01/08/2004 January 8, 2004 - Texas Instruments has signed deals with South Korean firm DongbuAnam and Amkor Technology Inc. to increase production of its digital light processing (DLP) chips.
01/08/2004 Power & Energy Inc. is using a U.S. defense research contract to develop nanostructured membranes for fuel cell applications, according to a news release.
01/08/2004 While many economic regions around the world are trying to foster startup company growth à la Silicon Valley, Europractice, a European research program, has inadvertently spawned more than a dozen small tech startups. The idea was to serve the industry, but a number of researchers just couldn't resist the temptation to go into business for themselves.
01/07/2004 (January 7, 2004) West Lafayette, Ind.—Purdue University researchers have developed a new method to quickly and inexpensively create microfluidic chips, analytic devices with potential applications in food safety, biosecurity, clinical diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and other industries.
01/07/2004 January 7, 2004 - Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany, has entered the flash market with the introduction of a NAND-compatible 512Mbit flash chip based in its TwinFlash technology.
01/07/2004 January 7, 2004 - Will history, along with an unexpected slowdown in silicon wafer demand, repeat itself in the second half of 2004? It could, based on a new analysis by Advanced Forecasting Corp.
01/07/2004 Movaz Networks Inc.'s MEMS-based optical switch technology has been selected for a U.S. government optical network project, according to a news release.
01/07/2004 Nanosphere Inc., a privately held life sciences company with headquarters in Northbrook, Ill., is adding protein detection capabilities to its line of nanotech-based molecular detection tools. Developed by Chad Mirkin, the new technique uses gold nanoparticles and short strands of “barcode” DNA to detect the presence of disease-specific molecules in the human body.
