08/27/2008 August 27, 2008: SUSS MicroTec, a supplier of process and test solutions for the semiconductor industry, announced the CB Series semi- and fully automated wafer bonders, for advanced MEMS devices used in automotive and consumer applications.
08/27/2008 August 27, 2008: Green Earth Technologies announced that its nanotechnology-based G-Oil 2 Cycle ECO Engine Oil and ECO Bar & Chain Oil are now sold through The Home Depot, as a result of a distribution agreement with Techtronic Industries (TTI), manufacturer of Ryobi and Homelite outdoor power equipment.
08/27/2008 August 27, 2008: Arrowhead Research Corp., a publicly traded nanotechnology company, sold $4.4M worth of common stock and common stock purchase warrants in a registered direct offering to investors. Net proceeds will help fund operations and contribute to Arrowhead's runway to monetization events of its subsidiaries.
08/27/2008 Advantest Corporation, manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, has completed its buyout of Credence Systems GmbH (CSG), a manufacturer of test systems for automotive semiconductors.
08/26/2008 August 26, 2008: Researchers from Monash U. have designed a nano-sized "trojan horse" particle to ensure healing antioxidants can be better absorbed by the human body.
08/26/2008 August 26, 2008: Finetex Technology Global Ltd., a mass manufacturer of electrospun nanofibers, has provided nanofiber coated filter media for Mahle, the Stuttgart-based engine components and systems specialist, to produce the new Symmetrix air filter system. The Mahle Symmetrix filter system was designed to deliver maximum filter performance with minimal installation space.
08/26/2008 August 26, 2008: IBM says it has integrated and controlled an electrically driven light emitter based on a single carbon nanotube, which it says is a first step in developing nanotube-based integrated electronic and nanophotonic devices.
08/25/2008 August 25, 2008: The new N_charge technology platform, developed by Nanogate AG, enables the low-cost storage of electric charges in different underlying media, such as glass, textiles, and plastics.
08/25/2008 August 25, 2008: An inexpensive web-enabled MEMS-based device for measuring lung function in patients with asthma and other disorders is being developed by researchers at Texas Instruments in Bangalore, India, and co-workers.
08/25/2008 August 25, 2008: Dolomite, a microfluidics company, in collaboration with the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science have announced the development of a new generation of microfluidics-based environmental testing equipment for use in air quality monitoring.
08/25/2008 b>(August 25, 2008) DRESDEN, Germany After a two year stint in Stuttgart, SEMICON Europa will be on the move once again, this time to Dresden, reportedly the largest semiconductor center in Europe; so-called Silicon Saxony. The announcement was made by was Heinz Kundert, President of SEMI Europe at a joint press conference with SILICON SAXONY e.V., the State of Saxony and the City of Dresden.
08/22/2008 August 22, 2008: Stained glass windows that are painted with nanoparticles of gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland U. of Technology experts have discovered. Associate Professor Zhu Huai Yong, from QUT's School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, said that glaziers in medieval forges were the first nanotechnologists who produced colors with gold nanoparticles of different sizes.
08/22/2008 The relative merits of solid-state drives (SSD) vs. hard-disk drives (HDD) have been discussed for some time -- and now Intel is joining the debate, outlining plans for the SATA SSD product family at its annual Developer Forum (8/19-8/21). Troy Winslow, marketing manager of the NAND products groups at Intel, told SST what SSDs offer in terms of enhanced mobility and energy cost savings.
08/22/2008 By Meredith Courtemanche, managing editor, SMT
I was afraid Florida would be too hot to visit in August for SMTA International (SMTAI) 2008. The sun was no concern, as Hurricane Fay winds tossed about the palm trees outside the convention center. Safe inside, we concentrated on the next big thing to hit the electronics interconnect community: thru-silicon via (TSV) and other chip/package/board manufacturing technologies.
08/21/2008 August 21, 2008: A study by researchers at the U. of Arizona reports that the US Navy ranks third, behind IBM and the U. of California system, in the number of nanotechnology patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 1976-2006. Nanotechnology patents were identified by searching for certain keywords in the title or abstracts of published patents.
08/21/2008 August 21, 2008: FujiFilm Recording Media USA announced that media manufactured by Fujifilm for the new Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive is capable of storing up to three terabytes (TB) of data, ideal for magneto-resistive (MR) and giant magneto-resistive (GMR) heads.
