12/27/2007 Developed by a team of scientists from the Georgia Tech Research Institute, tiny copper structures with pores at both the nanometer and micron size scales could play a key role in the next generation of detonators used to improve the reliability, reduce the size and lower the cost of certain military munitions.
12/27/2007 ; Carsem, a provider of turnkey packaging and test services to the semiconductor industry, announced the availability of strip testing services for their sawn micro leadframe package (MLP) family.
12/27/2007 ; Beginning January 1, 2008, Elcoteq, an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company with original design manufacturing (ODM) capabilities in the communications technology field, announced it will proceed with the action plan set forth in October, 2007, to streamline and simplify its organization. The company's goal is to improve response time to its customers' developing needs in all business areas.
12/26/2007 Coventor Inc.'s 3D MEMS Designer and Analyzer software has been selected by Hong Kong University and Kyoto University as the platform for a MEMS design contest.
12/26/2007 Nanomedicine pioneer Mauro Ferrari and colleagues at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have developed a new way to get intravenous agents for cancer and other diseases to the parts of the body where they're needed most and to reduce the amount that goes to other areas where unintended injury can occur.
12/24/2007 Almac Diagnostics' Cancer DSA platform has won an award for the Best New Technology at the Tech Idol Showcase event held at the 2007 "Discovery 2 Diagnostics" conference in Pennsylvania, the company announced.
12/21/2007 December 21, 2007 - Sino-American Silicon Products, a Taiwanese maker of medium-and small-diameter silicon wafers (and second only to Green Energy Technology in terms of domestic wafer capacity), has agreed to buy TI spinoff GlobiTech for $45 million, to extend and upgrade its technology capabilities.
12/21/2007 December 21, 2007 - Taiwan's top display panel supplier AU Optronics is reportedly venturing into production of epitaxy for LEDs with a new subsidiary, gaining a foothold in a market seen as key for displays, according to local reports.
12/21/2007 Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, based in Taiwan, said that it plans to extend its foothold into niche markets in 2008 and predicted that LED substrates and MEMS devices for projectors and the automotive sector will drive annual sales growth by more than 20 percent.
12/21/2007 December 21, 2007 - IBM has agreed to license Infineon Technologies' 130nm embedded flash technologies, expanding IBM's custom foundry services capabilities and giving Infineon an extra manufacturing source.
12/21/2007 December 21, 2007 - ASML and Carl Zeiss SMT say they have agreed to cross-license patents with Canon in their respective fields of semiconductor lithography and optical components, meaning they can market products using technology covered by the others' litho equipment-related patents.
12/21/2007 December 21, 2007 - RF Micro Devices has agreed to acquire Filtronic PLC's compound semiconductors subsidiary for about £12.5M (US ~25.1M) in cash, including the unit's 150mm GaAs wafer fab in the UK, one of RFMD's major GaAs pHEMT semi suppliers.
12/21/2007 Affymetrix Inc., developer of microarray technology, has agreed to acquire USB Corp., which develops, manufactures and markets molecular biology and biochemical reagent products. Affymetrix expects the acquisition to accelerate its development and commercialization of new genetic analysis products.
12/21/2007 ; Semiconductor executives anticipate moderate revenue growth, below historical averages, in the coming year, and, profitability is expected to be volatile over the next five years, according to a recent global survey of semiconductor company executives conducted by KPMG LLP, the US audit, tax and advisory firm. Executives als expect competition in emerging markets, manufacturing and product innovation to lead to increased M&A activity.
12/21/2007 December 20, 2007 - Semiconductor equipment spending will slip 9.9% in 2008 in large part due to measures taken to absorb memory oversupplies, though the second half of the year should pick up strength and set the stage for a return to growth in 2009, according to the latest figures from Gartner.
12/20/2007 December 20, 2007 - Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor is finding new applications for its process technologies through a partnership with CMT Medical Technologies to develop and market flat-panel X-ray detectors for medical applications.
12/20/2007 December 20, 2007 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Canon Inc., and Hitachi Ltd. are in talks to form a partnership for organic electroluminescence (OEL) flat panels, likely involving hundreds of billions of yen to establish minority stakes in Hitachi's display subsidiary, according to local media reports.
12/20/2007 XCOM Wireless Inc., a developer of radio frequency products, and Innovative Micro Technology, a MEMS contract manufacturer, say they have reached a "critical milestone" in producing a joint RF MEMS relay product.
12/20/2007 Filigree Nanotech Inc., a startup company focusing on nanomaterials for batteries, has received about $3,000 from the Chambers Family Fund for Entrepreneurship.
Nanomedicine pioneer Mauro Ferrari and colleagues at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have developed a new way to get intravenous agents for cancer and other diseases to the parts of the body where they're needed most and to reduce the amount that goes to other areas where unintended injury can occur.