03/10/2008 Mar. 10, 2008 - IBM and Hitachi say they have signed a two-year deal to research 32nm and beyond semiconductor technologies, particularly methods for analyzing devices and structures to improve characterization and measurement of transistor variation.
03/10/2008 Mar. 10, 2008 - WiSpry, a developer of programmable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products, says it has tacked on another $7M to its Series B round of funding, for a total of $18M raised in the round. The funds will be used to transition from technology development into product qualification, the company noted in a statement.
03/10/2008 ; LSI Corp. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and IP of the hard disk drive semiconductor (HDD) business of Infineon Technologies AG, including product designs, related software, inventory, and test equipment. Financial terms are not being disclosed.
03/10/2008 Agilent Technologies says that the first objective comparison of its kind of tiling microarray array platforms using engineered DNA targets demonstrated the comparative performance and cost effectiveness of its microarrays.
03/10/2008 Luna Technologies' new MEMS-based Phoenix 1000 tunable laser is based on the former Iolon 'Apollo' class of tunable lasers, and offers low noise and precise tuning capability over the C-band.
03/10/2008 March 6, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- BATESVILLE, IN -- Hill-Rom and NanoHorizons, Inc. announce an agreement to incorporate NanoHorizon's antimicrobial technology into Hill-Rom's patient support surfaces.
03/07/2008 ; FUJIFILM Dimatix Inc. today announced its collaboration with Agilent Technologies Inc. to supply the company with innovative inkjet products based on the latest semiconductor manufacturing technologies for use in life sciences applications. Agilent uses the FUJIFILM Dimatix inkjet technology to develop products that allow life scientists to more efficiently target and analyze sequences of genetic material.
03/07/2008 Electron-beam direct write, nanoimprint lithography (NIL), and other potentially disruptive semiconductor nanopatterning technologies made waves during the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference, as Small Times' Tom Cheyney explains.
03/07/2008 ; The SMTA has announced "Best of Conference Awards" to two presenters from this year's Annual Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium and Tabletop Exhibition, held in late January in Hawaii. These awards are chosen by attendee ratings.
03/07/2008 ; Multitest's MT2168 pick & place handler, which was introduced at SEMICON Europa 2007, has been delivered to its first customer. The MT2168 beta-site version was installed at an European R&D and production site of an international IDM.
03/07/2008 Nanotechnology developer NanoGram Corp. branched out into the cleantech space when it closed on a third equity round of $32M to expand its solar technology and nanomaterials businesses.
03/07/2008 Genedata's Expressionist platform has expanded GeneChip-compatible status for exon expression with the Affymetrix GeneChip microarray platform.
03/07/2008 SUSS MicroTec has launched an "advanced nanotechnology" tool set for its mask aligners. The new nanoimprint lithography (NIL) add-on enables MA6 aligners to print resist thicknesses from less than 100 nanometers to a few hundred microns, with a printing resolution of a few nanometers.
03/07/2008 Mar. 6, 2008 - Micron Technology has separated its CMOS image sensor business into an independent division, Aptina Imaging, to better focus on delivering the technology to customers while Micron focuses its efforts on the memory sector.
03/07/2008 Mar. 6, 2008 - Entegris says it has invested $8M for a 14% equity stake in privately held Integrated Materials, a supplier of wafer carriers used in diffusion and RTP thermal processes, and plans to acquire the remaining equity "upon completion of certain closing conditions."
03/06/2008 by M. David Levenson, Editor-in-Chief, Microlithography World
Friday (Feb. 29) sessions at the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference featured detailed presentations by Canon, Nikon, and ASML, all talking about improvements in lens aberration control, defectivity, and throughput. Their water immersion optical lithography equipment seems fully capable of producing 45nm devices, and should be OK with some double patterning at 32nm -- but none of it as shown will jump to the 22nm node.
03/06/2008 March 6, 2008 -- CHASKA, MN -- Entegris, Inc. announced today it signed an agreement to purchase a 14 percent equity stake of privately held Integrated Materials, Inc. (IMI) for $8 million.
03/06/2008 ; Datacon and Ablestik have joined forces to provide joint technological development and shared product evaluations and demonstrations to the marketplace. The aim of this partnership is to strengthen technological leadership, especially in processes such as thin die and/or stacked die handling as well as other advanced epoxy processes, and to advise customers of both companies on the best solutions for their production needs.
03/06/2008 Konarka Technologies Inc., which develops and commercializes nanotech-enabled Power Plastic that converts light to energy, has demonstrated that it can manufacture solar cells through inkjet printing.
03/06/2008 Agilent Technologies is expanding its nanotechnology development capacity by signing an agreement to acquire TILL Photonics GmbH and completing its acquisition of Colloidal Dynamics.
