09/26/2003 As the Greenpeace report, has caused some comment, I thought it would be helpful to lay out our position more fully. We see a mixture of promise and concerns. Technology can do great things but cannot deliver on its own. We have the knowledge and technology to feed everyone, but it doesn't happen.
09/26/2003 Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a Reno, Nev.-based developer and supplier of nanocrystalline materials, named Douglas Ellsworth president of subsidiary Altair Nanomaterials Inc., according to a news release.
09/26/2003 U.S. regulators and the maker of the Segway Human Transporter launched a recall Friday after receiving reports of riders falling off the MEMS-enabled machine when batteries run low. Segway said the recall will allow it to upgrade software that tells the rider if it's approaching critically low power. The improvements are not directly related to the scooter's MEMS gyros and tilt sensors.
09/25/2003 September 24, 2003 - China's Grace Semiconductor has begun production of 4000 8-in. wafers/month at its fab in Shanghai, with plans to ramp up to 10,000 wafers/month by the end of the year.
09/25/2003 September 24, 2003 - LSI Logic Corp., Milpitas, CA, has sold its 6-in. wafer manufacturing facility in Tsukuba, Japan, to Kyoto-based Rohm Co. for approximately $23.5 million.
09/25/2003 September 23, 2003 - Applied Materials is reportedly considering shutting down its wafer cleaning business, which would result in the closure of its Israeli subsidiary Oramir Semiconductor Equipment, according to the Israel Business Arena.
09/25/2003 September 23, 2003 - STMicroelectronics says it has made "significant advances" in developing light-emitting silicon technology with properties rivalling those of compound semiconductor materials.
09/25/2003 September 23, 2003 - Researchers at Europe's Inter-university MicroElectronics Center (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium, have developed a prototype tool to model and analyze noise generated on low- and high-ohmic substrates used in ultra-deep, sub-micron CMOS technologies.
09/25/2003 September 22, 2003 - A group of current management leaders has acquired the assets of Wright Williams & Kelly, a subsidiary of semiconductor engineering services provider CH2M Hill Industrial Design & Construction.
09/25/2003 September 22, 2003 - Motorola chairman and CEO Chris Galvin, the grandson of company founder Paul Galvin, says he will retire as soon as a successor can be found.
09/25/2003 September 22, 2003 - Researchers at Royal Philips Electronics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the Inter-university Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium, say they have completed fabrication of 65nm CMOS devices.
09/25/2003 September 23, 2003 - Richard Aurelio, chairman and CEO of Varian Semiconductor Equipment Inc., Gloucester, MA, plans to sell over 500,000 shares of the company's stock to diversify his portfolio.
09/25/2003 Despite the industry's general belief in an imminent market upswing, data from industry analysts continue to suggest that the goodwill has yet to translate into dollars for equipment makers.
09/25/2003 September 22, 2003 - RFco Inc., a Los Gatos, CA, fabless semiconductor company, has closed a $16.5 million Series A round of funding, led by a trio of venture capital firms.
09/25/2003 SEPT. 25--EAST HANOVER, N.J.--Sensor Products Inc. has unveiled its Tactilus Surface Air Flow Sensor, which contains a one-dimensional array of 16 pressure sensing elements, making it ideal for such tasks as evaluating flow control around cleanroom door seals.
09/25/2003 Chromux Technologies Inc., an Oxnard, Calif.-based optical MEMS supplier, will manufacture MEMS devices for NP Photonics Inc. and serve as an Asian distributor for the Tucson, Ariz.-based firm, according to a news release.
09/25/2003 Jean Chretien Favreau refers to himself as an “architect/inventor.” He seemed to have been wearing both hats when he first got the idea for Nanopage, a flexible digital screen. “I would do a lot of computer-assisted design and I was always frustrated by the small-sized screen,” he said. “So I imagined a screen you could roll up like a blueprint.” That little idea has come a long way.
