07/10/2003 July 9, 2003 - Adept Technology, Livermore, CA, and MSP Corp., Minneapolis, MN, are combining technologies to create an improved wafer cleaning system. Under the deal, MSP will use Adept Technology's FFE wafer handling platform in its MSP 2300XP2 particle deposition tool. The coupling will give MSP customers "a solution that will improve their wafer cleaning system performance," said MSP president Benjamin Liu.
07/10/2003 July 9, 2003 - Semiconductor IP company Elixent, Bristol, UK, has closed a second round of funding worth $10 million, led by GIMV and NIF Ventures as well as founding investor 3i. The funds will be used to expand the company's engineering group and accelerate the international rollout of its products. The startup raised $14 million in its first round of funding in 2001.
07/10/2003 JULY 9--CINCINNATI--On news of a union-led Congressional letter-signing ceremony, cleanroom garment maker Cintas Corp. reiterated today its steadfast support of its employees' right to government- supervised elections -- despite union efforts to circumvent the election process and gain representation against the employees' will.
07/10/2003 JULY 10--CINCINNATI, OHIO-- The Board of Directors of Cintas Corp. today announced that Scott D. Farmer has been elected chief executive officer and president of the cleanroom garment manufacturing company.
07/10/2003 July 8, 2003 - Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) is lauding the Senate Finance Committee, which is holding Congressional hearings in order to explore the potential impact to domestic manufacturers by repealing the Foreign Sales Corporation/Extraterritorial Income Exclusion (FSC/ETI).
07/10/2003 Nanoshells are one of several nanoscale materials being developed as intravenous and topical drugs. The smorgasbord includes carbon spheres called fullerenes used by the startup C Sixty for arresting neurodegenerative diseases, and nanoparticles under study by the drug companies Advectus Life Sciences Inc. and American Pharmaceutical Partners for treating cancers.
07/10/2003 Pearl Chin, a New York-based nanotechnology consultant, is soliciting investors for a proposed $100 million nanotechnology venture fund. Chin, who is also a managing director of Madrid, Spain-based CMP Cientifica, said the fund will be called Seraphima Ventures.
07/10/2003 July 10, 2003 – Former Motorola executive and researcher Herb Goronkin has joined ZettaCore Inc.'s board of directors, the company announced.
07/10/2003 on Optics Inc., a Waltham, Mass., developer of MEMS-based infrared gas sensors, named Christopher Mather chief executive and a director, according to a news release.
07/09/2003 Rolls-Royce plc has obtained exclusive worldwide rights to use Cool Chips plc's solid-state cooling technology in gas turbine products for aerospace, defense, marine and energy applications, according to a news release.
07/09/2003 On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy appeared before a joint session of Congress and challenged the lawmakers – and the nation – to get behind a dramatic new goal: Sending a man to the moon by the end of the decade. Now comes talk in Washington about yoking nanotechnology to a challenge akin to the “man-on-the-moon” mission – something dramatic and daring that will amaze the public and excite the scientists.
07/09/2003 July 9, 2003 – A MEMS-based tool for internal biomedical imaging took top honors in Micralyne Inc.'s annual Microsystems Design Award, according to a news release.
07/08/2003 July 8, 2003 - IC stepper suppliers fell victim to the same market downswing as the rest of the industry in 2002, according to new research from VLSI.
07/08/2003 JULY 7--PRINCETON, N.J.--Laureate Pharma L.P. has expanded its purification capacity with a new automated chromatography system for processing protein products under current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs).
07/08/2003 JULY 8--FREMONT, Calif.--Asyst Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has won a multi-million dollar order to provide its 300-mm automated material handling system (AMHS) to UMCi, a Singapore-based 300mm joint venture fab between United microelectronics Corp. Infineon Technologies, AG, and the Singapore Economic Development Board's investment arm.
07/08/2003 JULY 8--SAN ANTONIO, Texas--Sony Electronics Inc. has named Philadelphia-based Binswanger/CBB as its exclusive agent for the sale of the company's high-tech manufacturing complex in San Antonio.
07/08/2003 July 8, 2003 - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), Hsinchu, Taiwan, said its 2Q revenues were up 27% to $1.45 billion, ahead of even the company's aggressive estimates in April.
07/08/2003 July 7, 2003 - Dainippon Screen and Nikon have agreed to co-develop next-generation photolithography processes for semiconductor fabrication. The two companies will work to share data between Dainippon's photoresist coater/developers and Nikon's steppers, and develop a control system to automatically adjust them for changes in process conditions, ultimately boosting production yields.
07/08/2003 July 7, 2003 - The Tokyo-based Association of Super-Advanced Electronics Technologies (ASET), a government-funded electronics research cooperative, says it has developed a way to fabricate high-performance masks for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.
