12/18/2002 Dec. 18, 2002 - Boise, ID - Micron Technology Inc. reported a wider fiscal first quarter net loss on Tuesday, saying the average selling prices for its products dropped about 12% from the prior quarter, according to Reuters.
12/18/2002 DEC. 17--ROCKVILLE, MD--Mark McClellan, commisioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), today has appointed Jesse Goodman to replace Kathryn Zoon, as director of FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).
12/18/2002 DEC. 18--ROCKVILLE, MD--Outgoing biologics director Kathryn Zoon will leave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January in the wake of the agency's decision to shift some regulatory oversight from the Center for Biologics Evaulation and Research (CBER) to the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).
12/18/2002 Dec. 18, 2002 - Austin, TX - More than 100 of the world's top lithography experts attending an International SEMATECH (ISMT) workshop to review the state of immersion lithography technology urged the consortium to help coordinate and accelerate a feasibility study on the technology.
12/18/2002 Dec. 18, 2002 - Veldhoven, Netherlands - Chip equipment maker ASML has announced that it will cut 1,450 jobs and sell or close loss-making US businesses, as it strives to reach break-even in the chip industry's worst-ever slump.
12/18/2002 Charlie Janac thinks his company, Nanomix, could be nanotechnology’s first hit company – once people figure out how to pronounce its name. Nanomix, sounds like "genomics." “Our goal is to become so famous it’s not even a question,” said Janac. Nanomix developed a way to build carbon nanotube structures that act as chemical sensors. Janac thinks the company’s expertise will make Nanomix a model for nanotech success.
12/18/2002 Veeco Instruments Inc. and FEI Co. said they won't merge as planned by year's end, citing delays in obtaining regulatory and shareholder approvals.
12/17/2002 Dec. 17, 2002 - San Jose, CA - Numerical Technologies Inc., the provider of subwavelength lithography-enabling technology to the semiconductor industry, today announced that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has signed an agreement to license Numerical's phase-shifting technology for the production of its newest and most advanced SRAM product.
12/17/2002 Dec. 17, 2002 - Veldhoven, Netherlands - Lithography equipment supplier ASML Holding NV will shortly unveil details of a large restructuring program, according to a person close to the company.
12/17/2002 Innovative Micro Technology (IMT) said it received $1.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army to develop a MEMS-based system for purifying human blood stem cells.
12/17/2002 Amphora Discovery Corp., a Research Triangle Park, N.C., biopharmaceutical company, raised $23 million in Series B financing, according to a news release. The funds will be used to commercialize AmphoraÂ’s drug discovery products, which use microfluidic assay technology.
12/17/2002 Just as organic fruit is good for your health, organic metals may be good for the environment. If investors are right, these materials will be good for the bottom line, too. One of the first companies to commercialize the conductive polymers is Ormecon, which trademarked the name "organic metal." The term refers to a conductive polymer – nanostructured material made from organic building blocks.
12/16/2002 Dec. 16, 2002 - Sunnyvale, CA - Advanced Micro Devices has reorganized its flash memory chip operations as it attempts to take better advantage of increased memory needs in advanced electronics products, reports CBS MarketWatch.
12/16/2002 DEC. 16--TOKYO, Japan--Toshiba Corp. today announced that it will construct advanced semiconductor production facilities employing 300-mm wafers.
12/16/2002 Dec. 16, 2002 - San Jose, CA - Novellus Systems Inc. has announced that it has called for the redemption of all of its subsidiary SpeedFam-IPEC Inc.'s six-and-one-quarter percent Convertible Subordinated Notes, due in 2004.
12/16/2002 DuPont Displays and Universal Display Corp. (UDC) said they plan to jointly develop a new generation of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) materials and technology.
12/16/2002 It's long been said that during the California Gold Rush considerable fortunes were amassed by the merchants who sold the miners picks, shovels and Levi Strauss dungarees. GeniconÂ’s picks-and-shovels play is a nanotechnology-based signal generation and detection tool kit for DNA chips.
12/13/2002 December 13, 2002 -- The worldwide semiconductor industry returned to positive growth in 2002, with revenue totaling $155.4 billion in 2002, a 1.4 percent increase from 2001, according to preliminary statistics by Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc. In 2001, worldwide semiconductor revenue declined 32 percent.
12/13/2002 DEC. 13--HENDERSON, NEV.--Emergency Filtration Products Inc. (EFP) has received favorable preliminary results from the testing of its nanotechnology-enhanced 2H Technology filtration system, which will be incorporated into an Environmental Isolation Mask.
