10/26/2007 ; STI Electronics Inc. (STI)'s embedded component/die technology (IC/DT) prototype was integrated into a Standard Missile-2 flight test that was successfully conducted at Point Mugu, CA on October 10.
10/26/2007 Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in Siimpel Corp., a developer and manufacturer of silicon MEMS-based solutions for mobile imaging applications.
10/26/2007 GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Co., has announced $6.8 million in funding for two projects with the U.S. Department of Energy to help accelerate the introduction of plug-in hybrid vehicles to market.
10/25/2007 October 9, 2007 -- /IEST News/ -- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL -- Discover strategies for applying the ISO 14644 cleanroom standards to meet today's requirements and tomorrow's goals.
10/25/2007 October 10, 2007 -- /IEST News/ -- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL -- A newly revised Recommended Practice (RP) from IEST provides guidance for maintaining a cleanroom at the level for which it was designed, including a new test procedure to establish frequency, monitor effectiveness, and determine appropriate levels of surface cleanliness.
10/25/2007 October 5, 2007 -- LAWRENCE, MA -- With the purchase of Freudenberg Building Systems, manufacturer of nora(R) Rubber Flooring, signed by two investment firms, the new owners and the existing management team are advancing growth plans for the nora brand.
10/25/2007 October 25, 2007 - In a bid to increase its manufacturing capacity for products used in handsets and analog devices, Skyworks Solutions Inc. says it has started converting its gallium arsenide heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) fab in Newbury Park, CA, from 4-in. to 6-in. wafers, and is expanding its work with Taiwan foundry partners.
10/25/2007 October 25, 2007 - US-based wafer supplier MEMC Electronic Materials says it has signed a 10-year, $7-$8B deal to supply solar grade silicon wafers to Germany's Conergy, billed as the worlds' largest installer of photovoltaic systems.
10/25/2007 October 5, 2007 -- /Environment News Service/ -- ELIZABETH, NJ -- A 67-year-old company that manufacturered hamburgers for its own brand and some of the largest private label brands on the market has been forced to recall so much meat that it is going out of business.
10/25/2007 October 5, 2007 -- /PRWEB/ -- KALAMAZOO, MI -- Hapman has opened its new manufacturing facility in Vadodara, India. More than 250 guests and local dignitaries attended the grand opening celebrations on September 18, 2007.
10/25/2007 October 25, 2007 - After touching a trough in 3Q07, semiconductor equipment sales should head back up with small positive growth over the next several quarters, according to market analysis firm The Information Network.
10/25/2007 October 25, 2007 - Citing unabating high prices for raw materials, Rohm and Haas Co. says it will implement a 5%-15% price increase across most of its chemical products starting Nov. 1.
10/25/2007 October 25, 2007 - Weeks after selling its photoresist developer line to Fujifilm, Air Products has shed another part of its business, this time its high-purity process chemicals (HPPC) unit to Houston-based KMG Chemicals.
10/25/2007 Shuvo Roy and his team at the Cleveland Clinic are using MEMS technology to create an implantable, self-regulating bioartificial kidney that will filter toxins and absorb necessary salts and water like human kidneys.
10/25/2007 October 25, 2007 - Hans Stork, formerly CTO and SVP of silicon technology development at Texas Instruments, has left his position to take on the role of CTO and group VP of Applied Materials' silicon systems group, responsible for the company's development of semiconductor equipment technologies.
10/25/2007 WiSpry Inc. has introduced its product family of MEMS tunable digital capacitors for cellular applications. These products integrate low power CMOS control and voltage generation logic with an array of tunable RF-MEMS digital capacitors. Samples of these capacitors will be available in 2Q08.
10/25/2007 ; With the market for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology expected to grow to US$10.7 billion by 2011, both traditional semiconductor companies with MEMS divisions and MEMS-centric companies will meet to discuss this expanding market at the Annual MEMS Industry Group Event and Congress on November 4-5 in Del Mar, CA.
10/25/2007 ; Multitest Elektronische Systeme GmbH recently sold its first MT9510XP pick-and-place handler to a large Japanese semiconductor company. The name of the company was not disclosed.
10/25/2007 FormFactor designed its new family of advanced wafer probe cards to address rising costs and technology challenges associated with testing wire bond logic and system-on-chip (SoC) devices.
10/24/2007 October 24, 2007 - Transmeta and Intel have buried the axe in their year-old litigation over patents, with Intel agreeing to license all Transmeta patents and patent applications for $150M and five years of $20M annual payments.
