08/04/2003 Aug. 4--MASON, Ohio--Robert Kohlhepp, the former CEO of Cintas Corp., sold 100,000 shares of the company July 25, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
08/04/2003 August 5, 2003 - SigmaTel, Austin, TX, says it will offer 7.5 million shares at $9 to $11 per share at its initial public offering later this year. In filings with the SEC, the company said it expects the IPO to generate as much as $110 million, compared with previous estimates of $75 million.
08/04/2003 August 4, 2003 - Nikon Semiconductor Inspection Technologies Group (SITECH) has unveiled a metrology tool designed for the 90nm node and below. The NRM-3100 is designd to measure lithographic exposure with enough bandwidth to accommodate the 70nm node, and boasts throughput of over 150 wafers per hour. Additional options include a focus mark measurement and stepper and angle management systems.
08/04/2003 August 4, 2003 - Primaxx, Allentown, PA, a manufacturer of thin film deposition and dry etch systems, has chosen ST Systems, Redwood City, CA, as the North American representative for its MEMS etching products. ST Systems will provide sales and service for Primaxx's MEMS-CET dry etch system.
08/04/2003 Surface Technology Systems, a respected supplier of deep-etching tools to MEMS researchers, is now ready to serve the market for full-scale MEMS production. It just hopes the market is ready. STS's tools are popular among academic and industrial MEMS research labs because they can make silicon structures that are much taller than they are wide.
08/01/2003 August 1, 2003 - Hynix Semiconductor, Seoul, Korea, says it will immediately ramp up production of its new 500MHz 256Mbit DDR SDRAM chips, built on the company's 0.13-micron processes. The memory devices are targeted at gamers, who tend to require higher frequencies and faster performance than typical users, and will be priced 10% to 20% above DDR400 chips.
08/01/2003 August 1, 2003 - ARM, Cambridge, UK, says that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), Shanghai, China, has joined its foundry program and licensed its ARM7TDMI microprocessor core, adding to ARM's manufacturing support in the region.
08/01/2003 Aclara BioSciences is providing products and services to GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) for drug discovery and development programs, according to a news release.
08/01/2003 Say the word “communications,” and chances are you’ll think of optical networking. This is mostly due to the staggering drop in earnings over the past couple of years, high-profile bankruptcy filings and countless failed startups that took with them loads of VC money and any remaining faith in the market.
08/01/2003 In a rather surprising entrepreneurial shift that has the potential to significantly impact environmental monitoring in a gamut of industries, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, a longtime systems developer, has unveiled a handheld, 0.2-µm particle counter—an ultra-sensitive device that displays both cumulative and differential particle count data through an illuminated touch screen.
08/01/2003 Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has become the "dog-ate-my-lunch" excuse for semiconductor and microelectronics manufacturers suffering from soft market revenues, according to an official at Martin Capital Advisors LLP.
08/01/2003 For years, researchers developing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have demonstrated working contraptions smaller than a grain of sand—work that has garnered more than just an academic interest.
08/01/2003 Copper physical vapor deposition (PVD) seeding and subsequent fill by electroplating has become the process of choice for microchip fabrication.
08/01/2003 Ion exchange (IE) columns and reverse osmosis (RO) stages are probably the most important steps in the treatment chain (filtration, degasification and sterilization are other typical operations) used to produce the ultrapure water (UPW) required by all semiconductor manufacturers.
08/01/2003 A new mobile virtual reality recruiting and training tool that models biotechnology fermentation is making its way around the Iowa countryside this fall in an effort to drive students to the state's new $4 million bioprocess training center.
08/01/2003 It's a question we ask ourselves regularly, and it's an issue that will be tackled in a conference session on designing and constructing controlled environments at CleanRooms West 2003, September 22-23, at the Anaheim Convention Center.
08/01/2003 Gordon Ely has recently been elected technical vice president of contamination control, a post on the executive board of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST; Rolling Meadows, Ill.)
08/01/2003 White Knight Engineered Products, a manufacturer of reuseable and disposable textile products, has sold its non-woven apparel line to DuPont Nonwovens (Wilmington, Del.).
08/01/2003 While travel restrictions have been lifted throughout Asia Pacific and Toronto where severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has come under control, ongoing global concerns as well as limited company travel have prompted the rescheduling of CleanRooms China 2003 from July to Dec. 12-13 at the Shanghai International Convention Center.
