09/22/2003 September 19, 2003 - After trying to sell directly for two year without success, Intel has auctioned off its plant in Puerto Rico for an undisclosed amount.
09/22/2003 SEPT. 22--RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif.--CardioTech International, Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Gish Biomedical, Inc., has expanded its cleanroom space in order to manufacture heparin-coated products.
09/22/2003 September 17, 2003 - Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany, plans to spend $1.2 billion over the next four years on its China operations to double its domestic market share.
09/22/2003 September 17, 2003 - RFWaves, Or Yehuda, Israel, and Taiwan foundry Tai-saw Technology Co. Ltd. (TST), have agreed to mass produce radio frequency chipsets.
09/22/2003 September 16, 2003 - TSMEC will reportedly invest an extra $222 million to increase production fivefold at its 8-in. wafer plant in Shanghai.
09/22/2003 September 16, 2003 - Texas Instruments' RFID systems division says it is developing UHF RFID tags for use in supply chain and logistics applications.
09/22/2003 September 16, 2003 - South Korean chip foundry Dongbu Anam Semiconductor has increased production capacity by 50% at its Sangwoo facility in North Chungcheong province.
09/22/2003 September 16, 2003 - China's Sinomos Semiconductor Ningbo Inc. is moving equipment into its facilities in the southern Yangtze delta region, with plans to expand operations there, according to local reports.
09/22/2003 September 16, 2003 - Silicon Microstructures Inc. (SMI), Milpitas, CA, says it has completed expansion at its MEMS wafer fab in Milpitas two months ahead of schedule.
09/22/2003 SEPT. 19--CHICAGO, Ill.--Motorola Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Christopher Galvin would retire after clashing with the board over strategy, ending three generations of family control at the world's No. 2 mobile phone maker.
09/22/2003 Sept. 22, 2003 – Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. plans to launch pilot production of MEMS-based mechanical relays and 3-axis accelerometers by year's end, according to the Japan Corporate News Network.
09/22/2003 Sure, every company is supposed to focus on its business opportunity with laser-like intensity. At NanoVia Inc., they take that saying literally. Using a patented technology that employs the same type of optics used to make holograms, NanoVia fires powerful lasers at microstructures to sculpt them into carefully aligned shapes -- and produce a raft of business opportunities.
09/19/2003 Getting a handle on the reliability of devices using new low-k materials and copper interconnects is key to successful integration efforts. Recently, Applied Materials announced it has developed benchmarks for testing the electrical reliability of copper and low-k materials using Agilent Technologies' Parallel Parametric Reliability (PPR) test system.
09/19/2003 September 18, 2003 - Japan continues to push for an industry rebound by posting strong semiconductor equipment sales in July, according to the latest figures from the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ).
09/19/2003 September 18, 2003 - Those anxiously awaiting a market turnaround may be disappointed by the latest semiconductor equipment figures from VLSI -- and downright upset by VLSI's chilly analysis of the numbers.
09/19/2003 September 18, 2003 - Seiko Instruments Inc. is reportedly breaking new ground by fabricating needles for use as probe tips in scanning probe microscopy.
09/19/2003 September 18, 2003 - Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has taken the wraps off its "NanoAccess" 90nm SoC process technology, based on its development work with IBM.
09/19/2003 September 18, 2003 - Although IBM Microelectronics had previously demonstrated "manufacturing success" using an enhanced version of Dow Chemical's SiLK inter-level low-k dielectric resin, the company has decided to opt for a CVD low-k approach to satisfy the wishes of customers.
09/19/2003 Guest Column: "It is vital that the electric grid of the country be modernized if we are to have any hope of preventing future disruptions." Rick Smalley of Rice University, Roger Anderson of Columbia University and Ron Oligney of the Texas Energy Center show how nanotechnologies can offer vast new electrical energy storage capacity.
09/19/2003 Sept. 19, 2003 – Veeco Instruments Inc., a Woodbury, N.Y., provider of metrology products and process equipment tools, filed a lawsuit against Asylum Research Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif., according to a Veeco news release.
