08/07/2003 August 5, 2003 - Advanced Power Technology, Bend, OR, has signed a deal to repackage and sell the SiC Zero Recovery Schottky diode die from Cree Inc., Durham, NC. APT will add its MOSFETs and IGBTs to the diodes in various combinations, including boost and buck configurations and power modules. Volume production is slated for 4Q03.
08/07/2003 August 1, 2003 - Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has named several new members to its board of directors. Stephen Schwartz, chairman, president, and CEO of Asyst Technologies; Mary Puma, president and CEO of Axcelis Technologies; Douglas Neugold, president of ATMI; and Akira Yamamura, president of Ferrotec Corp. were elected on July 15.
08/07/2003 August 6, 2003 - DuPont Electronic Technologies has formed a new business unit, DuPont Integrated Circuit (IC) Fabrication Materials. Jerry Coder has been named president; he formerly was president of DuPont EKC Technology, a manufacturer of remover and CMP chemicals used in semiconductor manufacturing. Coder will be based at DuPont EKC Technology headquarters in Danville, CA.
08/07/2003 If the second quarter is any guide, some small tech companies are "growing up." Late stage investments accounted for more small tech venture dollars than in previous quarters and experts say small tech startups – especially in nanotech – are defining themselves more by the markets in which they operate than by the technologies they use.
08/07/2003 Alien Technology Corp., a Morgan Hill, Calif., provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) products, announced closing on $38 million in Series F funding.
08/07/2003 Solicore Inc., a Lakeland, Fla., provider of solid state battery technology, announced a $13 million first closing of its Series B round. The company expects to raise an additional $2 million with strategic investors.
08/07/2003 A federal appeals court in New York has nullified a rule that set the performance requirements and deadlines for automakers to install tire pressure monitoring (TPM) systems in U.S. passenger vehicles.
08/07/2003 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $750,000 contract to NVE Corp. of Eden Prairie, Minn., for continued development of magnetic random access memory (MRAM), according to a news release.
08/06/2003 AUG. 6--MISSOULA, MONTANA -- Contract manufacturer, Nutritional Laboratories International (NLI), expects to make a seamless transition when the FDA's "Proposed Rule for Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Dietary Ingredients or Dietary Supplements" is finally implemented.
08/06/2003 Caliper Technologies Corp. announced that it's laying off 50 employees, or 9 percent of its staff, as part of its acquisition of Zymark Corp., according to a news release.
08/06/2003 Texas Instruments has shipped 2 million of its Digital Light Processing (DLP) subsystems – with 1 million coming in slightly more than 18 months, according to a news release.
08/05/2003 AUG. 5--ORANGE, Calif.--Officials at UltraSonic Cleaning/Film Division have announced the changing of their company's name from UltraSonic Cleaning /Film Division to Cleanroom Film and Bags
08/05/2003 August 5, 2003 - Metron Technology, San Jose, CA, has added Mattson's 610 line of rapid thermal processing (RTP) systems for 6-in. wafer production to its semiconductor equipment portfolio. The company will manufacture and refurbish the systems at facilities in Scotland and Silicon Valley. Metron incorporated the 610 RTP business from Total Fab Solutions, based in Tempe, AZ.
08/05/2003 August 5, 2003 - Camtek, Migdal Haemek, Israel, a developer of optical inspection systems, has unveiled its Falcon system for inspecting wafers in the final manufacturing stages. The tool, which offers surface inspection and 3D metrology for wafers up to 300mm, is aimed at wafer-level in-line inspection processes at end-of-line, bumping, and packaging facilities. Camtek says it will install the first Falcon systems by the end of 2003.
08/05/2003 August 5, 2003 - Amkor Technology, Chandler, AZ, and United Test and Assembly Center Ltd. (UTAC), Singapore, will join forces to offer assembly and test products and services to wafer foundries and IDMs in China. Under the agreement, UTAC will locate its China test center within Amkor's factory in Shanghai.
08/05/2003 AUG. 5--SAN JOSE, Calif.--Metron Technology N.V., an outsource solutions company, has expanded its Legends Equipment portfolio through the acquisition of the exclusive rights of ownership to the 610 rapid thermal processing (RTP) system for six inch wafer production.
08/05/2003 Gerd Binnig still recalls what it felt like in 1981 when he tested his technical innovations and saw atomic structures for the first time.
“It was like a dream to discover all this,” said Binnig, a fellow at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory who shared a Nobel Prize in physics for designing the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and helped create the atomic force microscope (ATM). “It was like being for the first time on the moon.”
08/05/2003 Konarka Technologies Inc. of Lowell, Mass., announced it received a grant from the United States Army to develop its photovoltaic technology for a variety of military applications.
08/04/2003 During SEMICON West in San Jose, Calif., it was announced that unit volumes are up along with utilization and capacity in electronics.
(August 6, 2003)
