01/21/2008 January 17, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- GENEVA -- STMicroelectronics today announced that, as of 12:00 midnight EST, January 16, 2008, STMicroelectronics had received tenders of approximately 34.6 million shares of Genesis Microchip Inc.
01/21/2008 ; Fujitsu Ltd.'s Board of Directors has decided to pursue the reorganization of the company's LSI business divisions into a new subsidiary scheduled to be established in March 2008. The new subsidiary will enable Fujitsu to accelerate the growth of and intensify its focus on its ASSP business in addition to its ASIC business, while moving forward with business development offering greater speed and flexibility that are characteristic of the LSI industry.
01/21/2008 ; Magma Design Automation Inc., Mentor Graphics Corp. and Synopsys Inc. announced today that they are now delivering low power EDA tools based on the Accellera-developed Unified Power Format standard (UPF 1.0). This includes a broad range of implementation and verification products from the three companies.
01/21/2008 ; LSI Corp. has donated a replica of the first transistor to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the invention of the transistor.
01/21/2008 Uni-Pixel says its flat-panel color display technology, called time-multiplexed optical shutter (TMOS), provides thin-film transistor (TFT) system manufacturers with an alternative to the current LCD manufacturing process, while leveraging their current infrastructure. WaferNEWS spoke with the company's CFO, Jim Tassone, about the technology, timeline, and the company's business model.
01/18/2008 Jan. 18, 2008 - Taiwan DRAM manufacturers bleeding red ink are asking for a break from their chip assemblers, who still are enjoying profitability despite the current market softness, notes a report in the Taiwan Economic News.
01/18/2008 Jan. 18, 2007 - December results for semiconductor equipment demand show a nice close to what was otherwise a lousy 2007 -- actual positive growth in tool orders, according to the latest data from SEMI.
01/18/2008 SST partner Nikkei Microdevices reports from the 17th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference in Fukuoka, Japan, where leading Japanese photovoltaic suppliers described technologies for improved efficiencies now starting to move into production. Also, details on TEL's pending entry into the solar equipment market with a thin-film deposition system.
01/18/2008 Market analysts are projecting an imminent surge of 200mm wafer processing tools swamping the market, valued in billions of dollars each year through 2012. It seems clear that an extra 100 fabs will be for sale over the next few years, with MEMS and advanced packaging lines likely snapping up this extra manufacturing capacity -- but watch out if a used 200mm tool flood washes over into mainstream CMOS.
01/18/2008 ; North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.23B in orders in December 2007 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.89, according to the December 2007 Book-to-Bill Report published yesterday by SEMI.
01/18/2008 ; Multitest's Malaysia office has announced that the company's 1000th test handler was installed in Malaysia late last month. Multitest has a total worldwide installed base of over 4000 test handlers, however. Malaysia is the first territory to achieve this number of 1000 installed multitest test handlers.
01/18/2008 ; MEPTEC, the MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council, is pleased to announce the addition of Joseph Fjelstad, President, Verdant Electronics as keynote speaker for its 4th Annual Thermal Management symposium titled "The Heat Is On: Thermal Technology Solutions for Advanced Products." this one-day technical event will be held on February 28 at the Wyndham Hotel, San Jose.
01/18/2008 Agilent Technologies says that its microarrays helped a breakthrough study establish a relationship between autism spectrum disorders and extra or missing genes. Another microarray developer, CombiMatrix Corp., is adding tests to its product as a result of the study.
01/18/2008 Carigent Therapeutics Inc. has been awarded a one-year, $153,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Cancer Institute to advance preclinical development of a long-circulating nanoparticle therapeutic that targets the specific molecular lesions in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients.
01/18/2008 Jan. 17, 2008 - Combining two methods for making solar cell materials appears to yield better results than either one alone, according to researchers from the U. of California/Santa Cruz, China, and Mexico who say their nanocomposite thin film doped with nitrogen and sensitized with quantum dots performs "better than predicted."
01/18/2008 Jan. 17, 2008 - As it weathers softness in the memory markets and domestic allegations of executive mismanagement and slush-fund coverups, Samsung Electronics is increasingly worried about a future showdown with rapidly progressing Japanese rivals, according to a local press report.
01/18/2008 Jan. 17. 2008 - Analysts and investors voted with their feet after the industry's bellwether company talked about its 4Q07 results, and outlook for 1Q08 and FY08. But what's the takeaway message for the rest of the semiconductor industry and its suppliers?
01/18/2008 Jan. 17, 2008 - The weak memory market continued to weigh on Samsung's bottom line in 4Q, with sales declines in its semiconductor business and plunging profits, and oversupplies and price pressures are seen continuing through 1H08.
01/18/2008 Jan. 17, 2008 - ZMD AG has sold its complete SRAM product line to San Carlos, CA-based Alliance Memory, including manufacturing rights, mask sets, IP and all remaining inventory.
01/17/2008 ; Freescale Semiconductor has established an advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) 200-mm (8-inch) production line to address growing sensors market demand. The newly added line at Freescale's Oak Hill Fab in Austin, TX, complements the company's existing 150-mm (6-inch) MEMS capacity in Sendai, Japan.
