03/28/2008 Mar. 28, 2008 - In a sector dominated by expensive customized products, the best opportunities in the MEMS test equipment market are to develop cost-effective standardized technologies, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan.
03/28/2008 Mar. 28, 2008 - Sharp is disclosing more details about its investment in thin-film solar cell capacity at a plant in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, scheduled to come online in 2010 with a projected capacity of 480MW, and ultimately scale up to 1GW/year peak capacity. Sharp also has a projected 160MW capacity in its Katsuragi plant in Nara Prefecture.
03/28/2008 by Bob Haavind, Editorial Director, Solid State Technology
A presentation by RIT engineers at this year's SPIE Advanced Lithography conference suggested the intriguing possibility of utilizing contrast differences for the TE/TM modes of exposure light to enable double patterning with frequency doubling imaging -- a technique that might provide a single-exposure alternative to double exposure/double patterning schemes at sub-45nm nodes.
03/28/2008 Dage Precision Industries, a Nordson company, announced that it's 4000HS High-speed bondtester is the first of its kind to comply with the recently published JEDEC standards for high-speed bondtesting.
03/28/2008 Illinois Tool Works Inc. announced the aquisition of all outstanding shares of VS Acquisition Holding Inc., the parent company of Vitronics Soltec Corporation, manufacturer of equipment, software, and related services used in soldering of semiconductor device packaging, and PCBs. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
03/27/2008 Industrial Nanotech Inc. plans to begin opening regional retail stores/warehouse centers in key established markets worldwide to warehouse inventory for that area and sell its Nansulate energy saving protective coatings to local customers.
03/27/2008 BioForce Nanosciences Holdings Inc., a producer of integrated biological and mechanical systems for life science researchers at the micro and nano scales, is launching a Surface Patterning Service using its Nano eNabler and Nano eNabler CB molecular printers.
03/27/2008 ; Electro Scientific Industries Inc. has announced that it has received a multiple-system order from a leading North American analog IC manufacturer for its model 2100 thin-film-on-silicon (TFOS) laser-trimming system. The 2100 TFOS systems will be used to expand production capacity at this customer's North American facility.
03/27/2008 ; If the MEMS test equipment market is to match the pace of the overall MEMS market, it has to develop cost-effective, standardized solutions. This is especially pertinent in a market where expensive customized products vastly outnumber off-the-shelf products. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan "World MEMS Test Equipment Markets," finds that the market earned revenues of $56.5M in 2007 and estimates this to reach $120.2M in 2014.
03/27/2008 ; Asymtek, a Nordson company, will feature in-booth presentations about conformal coating and scalable dispensing solutions at APEX 2008, held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV from April 1-3. The presentations will offer tips for improving manufacturing processes and total cost of ownership.
03/27/2008 Mar. 27, 2008 - The latest casualty in the memory sector slump appears to be Hynix, which is about to shave more than a quarter off its planned 2008 investments in 2008, with late-year investments now cast in doubt, according to local reports.
03/27/2008 March 27, 2008 -- /PRWEB/ -- Orangeburg, SC -- As one of the world's leading suppliers to a medical device industry whose products are integral components in life-saving technology, Zeus, Inc. understands how important collaboration is to developing the next medical breakthrough.
03/27/2008 March 27, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Honeywell (NYSE:HON) announcesthat it will expand production of AclarR film to meet growing demand for the clear, moisture-barrier material, which is used extensively in pharmaceutical packaging.
03/26/2008 ; STATS ChipPAC Ltd. today announced the appointment of Hal Lasky as executive vice president and chief sales officer for the company effective March 27. Based in the US, Lasky will report directly to Tan Lay Koon, STATS ChipPAC's president and CEO, and will have overall responsibility for the STATS ChipPAC's worldwide sales and product line management organization.
03/26/2008 Following the success of the evaluation trials conducted at the National University Hospital of Singapore, Veredus Laboratories and STMicroelectronics announced the commercial availability of VereFlu, a portable lab-on-chip application for rapid detection of all major influenza types at the point of need.
03/26/2008 Luna Innovations Inc. announced the discovery that a nanomedicine prototype aids in the growth of new hair follicles. Scientists at Luna's nanoWorks Division in Danville, VA, have been developing a portfolio of new candidates based on antioxidant nanomaterials that could lead to a platform technology for treating a wide range of diseases.
03/26/2008 ; SMART Modular Technologies Inc. (SMART) has announced it has added test during burn-in (TDBI) to its enterprise class memory (ECM) testing process. SMART's new TDBI procedure applies functional patterns, temperature, and voltage for screening or eliminating marginal DRAM devices, which can cause time and stress dependent failures. Without this level of burn-in, these flaws could result in early lifetime failures for the memory device.
03/26/2008 Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced the establishment of the Midwest Academy for Nanoelectronics and Architectures (MANA), a new research consortium led by the University of Notre Dame and designed to discover and develop the next nanoscale logic device
03/25/2008 ; Numetrics Management Systems Inc. has announced its NMX-ERP 3.0 suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for IC development organizations that extends the company's top-down project planning and risk measurement capabilities, handling chips designed in nodes down to 45 nm. In addition, Numetrics has made a 3-year, multimillion Euro agreement with NXP Semiconductors to license Numetrics' NMX-ERP software suite and professional services.
03/25/2008 ; SEMI has reported that worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $42.77 B in 2007, representing a year-over-year increase of 6%. The data is available in the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (SEMS) Report, now available from SEMI.
