11/27/2007 ; Rudolph Technologies has granted Entrepix Inc., Tempe, AZ, an exclusive license to manufacture, sell, service, and support the Rudolph AutoEL series of thin-film ellipsometers. Under the terms of the agreement, the transfer of assets and inventory will be completed sometime in the fourth quarter.
11/27/2007 Pure-play flash memory provider Spansion is gearing up to start manufacturing its 45nm MirrorBit ORNAND2 architecture, which uses a SONOS-like memory cell connected in a NAND memory array and is based on proprietary charge-trapping storage technology. Spansion president/CEO Bertrand Cambou talks with WaferNEWS about the cost advantages achieved with this NAND/NOR hybrid, as well as with the company's multisource manufacturing strategy.
11/27/2007 ; Cadence Design Systems Ltd. has opened its second office in Russia, in the city of Zelenograd, a center of the Russian semiconductor industry that has a rapidly growing number of start-ups. Employees there will focus on providing design expertise and training.
11/27/2007 NASA's Glenn Research Center has licensed three patents covering harsh-environment pressure sensors to Endevco Corp. The use of silicon carbide, rather than traditional silicon, eliminates the need for cooling and enables operation in extreme temperatures.
11/27/2007 Research and Markets has announced the addition of a book, Scaling Issues and Design of MEMS to its offering. The volume promises a complete design methodology for MEMS.
11/27/2007 November 26, 2007 - Two Wall Street analysts are reissuing health warnings for both the DRAM and NAND memory sectors, diagnosed as suffering from acute inflammation of supplies, and the patients' conditions are expected to get worse before getting better.
11/27/2007 November 26, 2007 - Worldwide semiconductor capacity and output both rose about 6% in 3Q07 vs. the prior quarter, but factory utilization stayed roughly flat, remaining just under the 90% level for the fifth straight quarter, according to data from Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics (SICAS).
11/26/2007 November 26, 2007 - A pair of reports from Wall Street analysts suggest Taiwan foundry TSMC will begin production for some AMD microprocessors as soon as 1H08.
11/26/2007 ; Verigy today announced that Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. has purchased the Verigy Port Scale RF solution for testing its highly integrated wireless communications devices.
11/26/2007 November 26, 2007 - Researchers at Georgia Tech say they've fabricated high-performance field-effect transistors (FET) using thin films of Carbon 60 (aka "fullerenes") with better electron mobility than amorphous silicon, low threshold voltages, large on-off ratios, and high operational stability. The devices target potential applications for large area, low-cost electronic circuits on flexible organic substrates, including displays, active electronic billboards, and RFID tags.
11/26/2007 In an exclusive interview with WaferNEWS, Vikram Pavate, Kovio VP of business development, talks about his company's work with printed silicon ICs for radio-frequency identity (RF-ID) chips, which combines functional electronic inks with high-resolution graphics printing technologies to make high-performance silicon CMOS TFTs on flexible substrates at a fraction of the cost of conventional lithography-based silicon technology.
11/26/2007 A review of the British government's progress on nanotechnologies and the data needs for addressing risks they may pose was the subject of discussion during an October 19 policy meeting. Small Times' Brian Dance reports.
11/26/2007 The unknown human health and environmental impacts of nanotechnology are a bigger worry for scientists than for the public, according to a new report published November 25 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. "Scientists aren't saying there are problems," says the study's lead author. "They're saying, 'we don't know. The research hasn't been done.'"
11/26/2007 November 20, 2007 -- AGAWAM, MA -- Microtest, a leader in testing services and contract manufacturing for the medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology industries, is once again expanding its high-tech facilities and wide range of services at its Agawam, MA, headquarters.
11/26/2007 November 21, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- SUNNYVALE, CA, and MERELBEKE, BELGIUM -- Picarro and Envitec nv/as today announced they signed an agreement that appoints Envitec as the exclusive distributor of Picarro instruments for Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and Tunisia.
11/26/2007 November 20, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- HONG KONG -- Global Sources and SEMI Taiwan plan to co-locate their Taiwan-based electronics industry shows in 2008, in order to offer their customers, electronics engineers and vendors, a new specialized platform covering the entire electronics development spectrum.
11/26/2007 November 20, 2007 -- STUTTGART, GERMANY, and RIETI, ITALY -- M+W Zander Italia S.r.I. has received its first contract for a photovoltaic (PV) plant in Italy from its Customer SOLSONICA S.p.A.
11/25/2007 November 16, 2007 -- SITTARD/LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS -- DSM Biologics, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products and Dutch biotechnology company Crucell N.V. today announced a PER.C6(R) license agreement with Daiichi Sankyo Ltd.
11/25/2007 November 16, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- GERMANTOWN, WI -- Cambridge Major Laboratories today announced the acquisition of ChemShop B.V., Weert, the Netherlands, a European supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) development services.
11/25/2007 November 19, 2007 -- /FDA Digest/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) today announced the award of three lab grants, designed to boost the food screening capabilities and spot radioactive material in food, resulting from deliberate or accidental contamination.
