02/04/2008 Feb. 4, 2008 - Unisem Berhad, a Malaysian semiconductor assembly/test services provider, has agreed to lease part of its facilities in Sunnyvale, CA, to KVD, a test supplier located down the coast in Carlsbad, CA, to use the site for analog test and final test/wafer sorting.
02/04/2008 Smart credit cards with embedded displays, e-packaging with printed RFID chips, and mobile devices with rollable, e-paper screens are among the flexible, printed, and organic electronics (FPOE)-enabled gizmos that have reached or are about to reach commercialization. But significant manufacturing and infrastructure challenges remain for this to become a multibillion-dollar market, as Small Times Senior Contributing Editor Tom Cheyney explains
02/04/2008 ; Unisem Berhad today announced that KVD, a provider of test solutions for the analog-dominant device market, will be leasing part of Unisem's Sunnyvale testing facilities for KVD's analog testing services and solutions for final test and wafer sorting. KVD will have its own engineering staff onsite and will utilize Unisem's onsite training facilities to provide classes for engineers and operators.
02/04/2008 ; Infineon Technologies has announced it is shipping in volume RF switches that are manufactured in a CMOS-based process on silicon wafers and offer the equivalent performance of RF switches manufactured in gallium arsenide (GaAs) process technology. Infineon went on to say that, previously, CMOS-based RF switches had to be manufactured on dedicated and more expensive sapphire wafers to reach the performance of GaAs switches.
02/04/2008 January 31, 2008 -- /ETTENHEIM, Germany/ -- As of January 1, 2008, GF Piping Systems has taken over the 50 percent share of Simona AG in their common joint venture Georg Fischer SIMONA Fluorpolymer Products GmbH in Ettenheim, Germany.
02/04/2008 January 31, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- SHANGHAI, CHINA -- WuXi PharmaTech today announced the completion of its acquisition of AppTec Laboratory Services, Inc., a U.S.-based service provider for the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries.
02/04/2008 February 1, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- WILMINGTON, DE -- DuPont today announced that it has completed its purchase of Chemtura Corporation's fluorine chemicals business.
02/04/2008 February 4, 2008 -- /WARRINGTON, PA/ -- Tiger Optics LLC, a leading manufacturer of laser-based trace gas and ambient monitors, today announced that it has received patents rights from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for five new innovations of the company's patented continuous wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CW CRDS) technology.
02/04/2008 ; KIC, a manufacturer of thermal process development and control products, announces that it is entering its 30th year of business within the electronics industry. Founded in 1977 by Casey Kazmierowicz, KIC entered the electronics industry with the introduction of the first continuous monitoring system for conveyorized furnaces for microcomputers.
02/04/2008 A needle-free vaccine platform that elicits a robust immune response against a wide array of viruses and bacteria has been awarded a U.S. patent. The University of Michigan holds the patent and NanoBio Corp., a spinoff from the university, licenses the patent and its associated technology.
02/04/2008 D-Wave Systems, developer of quantum computers targeted at commercial applications, has announced the closing of a $17 million Series C financing. The round was led by International Investment and Underwriting (IIU) of Dublin, Ireland and was strongly supported by existing investors.
02/03/2008 Feb. 2, 2008 - Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute say a new cheaper, quick-drying polymer could enable better performance and lower costs in both conventional photolithography processes and on-chip nanoimprint lithography. Also seemingly heavily involved in developing the technology: Applied Materials.
02/03/2008 Feb. 2, 2008 - Panasonic/Matsushita Electric Industrial and Samsung Electronics have settled patent infringement lawsuits in the US and Japan, and signed 10-year cross-licensing agreements to use the DRAM and other semiconductor technologies.
02/02/2008 Feb. 2, 2008 - Elpida Memory is significantly slowing its production of 65nm products and shifting its gaze to 50nm work ahead of schedule, anticipating tighter DRAM supplies as some firms get squeezed out of the market, according to an interview with the Nikkei Business Daily.
02/02/2008 Feb. 2, 2008 - Intel and Micron say they have jointly developed (through their "IM Flash" JV) a NAND flash chip that reads/writes data 5x faster than conventional NAND flash chips. Samples are now at OEMs and controller manufacturers, with mass production slated for 2H08.
02/01/2008 Feb. 1, 2008 - Global sales of semiconductors took their typical seasonal dip in December following their prior-months ramp-up for the holiday season, and for the full year chip sales managed to squeak out 2.5% growth, according to the latest data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
02/01/2008 Integrated Sensing Systems Inc. (ISSYS) has been awarded a patent covering the design and manufacture of advanced, catheter-delivered, anchors for miniature, wireless, batteryless, implantable sensors within the heart for chronic, noninvasive monitoring of cardiovascular biological pressures.
02/01/2008 Acceleware Corp. and Synopsys Inc. have released a new product that, according to the companies, enables up to 20-times faster electromagnetic simulation of optoelectronic devices such as micro image sensors based on CMOS.
