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Administration amends funding request for FDA

07/01/2008  JUNE 9, 2008 -- Today's action supports the fundamental change in strategy currently underway at FDA to adapt to the demands of the rapidly growing and changing global economy.

Microtest Labs doubles microbial ID and analytical services

07/01/2008  JUNE 3, 2008 -- Using the MicroSeq system, Microtest technicians can provide precise and reliable bacteria, mycoplasma, and mold identification in a 24-hour time period.

Anpath adds MRSA and VRE claims for EnviroTru(R) disinfectant

07/01/2008  JUNE 4, 2008 -- EnviroTru(R) is a multi-purpose disinfectant, sanitizer, and deodorizing cleaner, effective against numerous organisms, and also meets EPA requirements for Toxicity Category IV (no harmful dermal, ocular, inhalation, or ingestion effects).

FDA takes action against seafood processing company

07/01/2008  JUNE 6, 2008 -- FDA's enforcement action follows the company's extensive history of violating the FD&C Act and the agency's Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point regulations.

FDA issues warning on raw red tomatoes

07/01/2008  JUNE 7, 2008 -- FDA recommends that consumers not eat raw red Roma, raw red plum, raw red round tomatoes, or products that contain these types of raw red tomatoes unless the tomatoes are from the sources listed below.

Honeywell, Loba Chemie sign agreement to distribute lab chemicals in India

07/01/2008  JUNE 9, 2008 -- Loba Chemie will distribute Honeywell's high-purity solvents to India's growing pharmaceutical sector.

HDR, CUH2A to form comprehensive S+T design firm

07/01/2008  JUNE 2, 2008 -- The combined companies will employ nearly 1,700 architecture, engineering, and planning (AEP) staff members in more than 40 locations worldwide.

Indium Receives Quality Award

07/01/2008  Indium Corp.was recognized by Diodes, Inc. as a recipient of the "Full Mark Supplier" Quality Award for the 3rd Quarter of 2007. Guoping Lu, quality manager for Diodes/Kaihong Electronics Co. Ltd., presented the award to Indium Corp's Andy C. Mackie, Ph.D., product manager for semiconductor assembly materials, and Michael Qiu, area sales manager for semiconductor assembly Materials in China.

Memory roundup: DRAM prices up, NAND down, no "Apple effect"

07/01/2008  July 1, 2008 - A quick scan of news and analyst reports this week indicates DRAM pricing is firming up, but NAND flash is falling fast due to sluggish demand, which for the first time in a while is lacking a familiar driver.

VLSI Research Announces 10 Best Suppliers of 2008

07/01/2008  wafer processing and diagnistics; chip making; and test, handling and assembly equipment — the results are based on 4,565 surveys collected from chip makers that represent more than 95% of worldwide chip production.

Not Your Father's Summer School: Nanoscale Science Summer Institute Launched

07/01/2008  July 1, 2008 -- Twenty-five middle-school students from the Capital Region of New York will spend their summer vacation immersed in nanotechnology as they attend the first-ever Excelsior Scholars Nanoscale Science Summer Institute. They will study such fields as nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, nanobioscience and solar-powered devices

Veeco Launches "Veeco Labs Research Grant Program"

07/01/2008  July 1, 2008 -- Veeco Instruments Inc., a provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, has introduced the "Veeco Labs Research Grant Program," designed to stimulate the generation of new scientific investigation for researchers in the atomic force microscopy community.

Sonion MEMS microphone business to be renamed Pulse

07/01/2008  July 1, 2008 -- Pulse, an electronic component and subassembly design and manufacturer, announced that its Sonion division, which manufactures micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone technology, is now operating under the Pulse name.

Novomer announces clean-burning binder for advanced industrial applications

07/01/2008  July 1, 2008 -- Novomer Inc., a renewable plastics, polymers and chemicals company, has made its first product commercially available. NB-180 is a poly (propylene carbonate) (PPC) sacrificial binder that burns cleaner, more uniformly and at lower temperatures than currently available products.

Henkel Launches Research and Failure Analysis Center with Shanghai University

07/01/2008  To promote electronics material advancement in the burgeoning China region, Henkel and Shanghai University, in conjunction with several leading research universities, entered into an agreement to form a Shanghai Region Joint Electronics Research and Failure Analysis Center. The official signing ceremony marking the commencement of the partnership took place on June 10, 2008 at Henkel Asia-Pacific and China headquarters in Shanghai, China.

Nextreme awarded NC Green Business Fund Grant to enhance efficiency of thermoelectrics

07/01/2008  July 1, 2008 -- Nextreme Thermal Solutions, a manufacturer of microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, has been awarded a grant from the North Carolina Green Business Fund to enhance the efficiency of thin-film thermoelectrics used to convert waste heat into electricity.

Report from the VLSI Symposium: Planar CMOS to 22nm, but no more

07/01/2008  Overall agreement at this year's VLSI Symposium (June 16-19, Waikiki, Hawaii) was that planar CMOS is extendable to 22nm node but unlikely beyond that. By the 16nm node SRAMs will need FinFETs or a trigate-like design, which can be fabricated in bulk wafers rather than SOI wafers, as first reported by Toshiba in 2006 and now many others.

Fabs fight the neverending war on contamination

07/01/2008  In the wafer fab, no matter how hard you fight, there are some battles you’ll never win.

SEMICON West 2008

07/01/2008  Showguide includes conference highlights and exhibitor showcase.

Achieving comprehensive fab monitoring with optical particle counters

07/01/2008  Contamination monitoring bolsters semiconductor manufacturers’ efforts to keep up with shrinking critical dimensions and cost and energy reductions.