09/10/2003 Olympus Partnership Development Group Ltd. announced that its parent company, Tokyo-based Olympus Optical Co. Ltd. of Japan, has formed a new MEMS Technology Division, according to a news release.
09/10/2003 Sept. 10, 2003 – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will not appeal an August court decision that overthrew the rule governing tire pressure monitoring systems, according to an agency spokesman.
09/10/2003 Changsheng Liu, professor of Science and Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), and director of Shanghai Rebone Biomaterials Co., Ltd., spent a little more than 10 years developing the revolutionary new nanocement for regrowing bones and teeth. Now he wants to make waves in the international biotech industry.
09/10/2003 Sept. 10, 2003 - Nanomix Inc. has licensed its nanomaterial technology to DuPont Electronic Technologies for flat-panel displays, according to a news release.
09/09/2003 Zhao Yu Le, managing director of ShanghaiÂ’s Zuo Lun Nanoequipment, likes research and he likes results, which is why he got involved in the less glamorous, but more immediately useful segment of nanotechnology: tools. Tools have the advantage of turning a profit more quickly than a nanoproduct destined for consumers. The downside of the tool market is its relatively small size.
09/08/2003 The oldest microsystems software design firm and a pioneering industry toolmaker is scheduled to close – another casualty of the telecom drought. An analyst says the loss may not indicate any larger woes in the MEMS industry, but the company's products and management will be missed.
09/08/2003 Sept. 8, 2003 – Nantero Inc. announced it received $10.5 million in second-round funding.
The new lead investor is Charles River Ventures. Bruce Sachs and Bill Tai, both partners at the venture firm, have joined Nantero's board of directors. Returning investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Stata Venture Partners and Harris & Harris Group.
09/08/2003 Great ideas abound for new products and devices; but, as they say, the devil is in the details. In small tech devices, those details can get ever more devilish. The engineers at Intrinsix Corp. know this. So they make a living lining up all those details the right way, hoping to exorcise the devil and uncover the hidden profits.
09/05/2003 SEPT. 4--CONCORD, Calif.- Shares of Cerus Corp. began to sank today after the biotechnology company and corporate partner Baxter International Inc. said they stopped a human experiment designed to make blood transfusions safer.
09/05/2003 SEPT. 4--BILLERICA, Mass.--Millipore has announced the availability of its high flux sterilizing-grade polyethersulfone (PES) filter for the filtration of buffers, pH adjusters and other clean aqueous intermediate process solutions.
09/05/2003 Worldwide semiconductor sales totaled $12.90 billion in July, up a bit from the $12.54 billion in revenues reported in June 2003, and a healthy 10.5% jump from $11.68 billion in sales a year ago, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
09/05/2003 Start-up Silecs has joined the ongoing industry battle between CVD and SOD processes used to make low-k dielectrics with its own organosiloxane-based low-k dielectric material that is effectively non-porous.
09/05/2003 Nanometrics, Milpitas, CA, has introduced a pair of integrated metrology tools combining optical critical dimension spectroscopic ellipsometry with deep UV spectroscopic reflectometry.
09/04/2003 The uncertainty involved in nanotech investing is forcing many Bay Area firms to take a spot in Uncle Sam's queue. But why would Silicon Valley's libertarian technocrats anoint the slow-moving federal government as a nanotech savior? Because, in truth, most of the VCs that fund nano companies do so as a highly speculative part of their portfolios.
09/04/2003 Reliability, one of the biggest challenges facing the MEMS industry, is the topic of a two-day conference scheduled for Sept. 18-19 in Pittsburgh.
09/03/2003 SEPT. 3--ROCKVILLE, Md.--More than a year after it announced its risk-based initiative, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) outlined new steps in its strategic plan to modernize the regulation of pharmaceutical manufacturing and product quality with five new guidances, one of which is the final for using electronic records and signatures.
09/03/2003 SEPT. 2--CHICAGO--Herbert Stone, president of the food marketing research and consulting firm, Tragon Corp., has been elected president-elect of the Institute of Food Technologists as determined by a vote of its members.
09/03/2003 Fledgling consulting practices at Deloitte & Touche, the NanoBusiness Development Group, Cientifica, nABACUS, Sygertech and others want to help guide companies to nanoÂ’s promised land, for a fee of course. But with venture funding tight, few small companies are willing to open their wallets to business consultants now.
