09/13/2007 September 12, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- SOUTHAMPTON, PA -- Environmental Tectonics Corporation's Sterilization Systems Group (SSG) announced today the award of several new contracts spanning all markets and offerings.
09/13/2007 September 12, 2007 -- MONDSEE, AUSTRIA -- Christ Water Technology Group takes over 76 percent of the stock of the Zeta Group, located in Tobelbad, near Graz (Austria) and thus expands its activities in the pharmaceutical and life-science sector even further.
09/13/2007 As cell phone demand surges in emerging markets, IBM says it's seizing the last significant opportunity to reduce cell phones' cost and size by developing a low cost, integrated solution with multiple RF/analog functions on a single chip. IBM technologists explain to SST how this is being accomplished by replacing GaAs with SOI.
09/13/2007 September 7, 2007 -- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL -- Registration is now open for the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) Fall Conference, November 11-14, 2007.
09/13/2007 Pre-manufacturing service provider TXP has developed a package-on-package (PoP) assembly process that it asserts will reduce manufacturing time and associated costs. The company will deploy PoP technologies for several of its global customers.
09/13/2007 CAP-XX Limited, producer of supercapacitors that boost power delivery in mobile devices, has expanded its product line with high-temperature models. The HS and HW supercapacitors benefit from nanotechnology construction.
09/13/2007 Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corp., announced that U.S. Patent No. 7,265,174 has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. With respect to transparent conductive films, Clemson University has exclusively licensed this patent to Unidym.
09/13/2007 Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (ESI) received an initial order from a Korea-based memory manufacturer for its Model 9850 dual-beam infrared (IR) laser link-processing system. The customer will implement yield and throughput improvements to its advanced memory device manufacturing processes with the 9850.
09/12/2007 September 12, 2007 - Nascentric Inc., a provider of Fast-SPICE simulation and analysis tools, says it has closed a $7.2 million Series C round of financing, with new investor Intel Capital and existing investors Austin Ventures, Silverton Partners, Needham Capital and EDA veteran Jim Solomon (founder of SDA, which later became Cadence Design Systems).
09/12/2007 September 12, 2007 - Korean foundry Dongbu HiTek says it has made available a new internally developed design library to support manufacturing of CMOS image sensors using 110nm process technologies.
09/12/2007 September 12, 2007 - IBM says it has developed a new semiconductor technology that enables single-chip radio frequency (RF), integrating RF/analog functions including multimode/multiband RF switches, complex switch biasing networks, and power controllers.
09/12/2007 September 12, 2007 - ASML says a Taiwanese customer achieved a record throughput using the company's TwinScan XT:400F i-Line scanners -- 150 wafers/hr for 24 hrs, producing nearly 3600 wafers in a single day earlier this spring.
09/12/2007 Holographix LLC has opened twho new laboratories and thereby has expanded its micro- and nano-replication production capacity by 50%. The company produces cost-effective tools for use in imprint lithography and other micro- and nano-molding processes.
09/12/2007 SEMICON Taiwan, September 12–14 at the Taipei World Trade Center, Taiwan, begins today with more than 700 Taiwan-based and international companies exhibiting. Following are the show highlights from DEK, Palomar Technologies, and Rudolph Technologies.
09/12/2007 September 12, 2007 - Samsung has developed what it says is the industry's first "60nm-class" 2Gb DDR2 DRAM devices, with multiple strategic aims to help stabilize DRAM prices, and solidify its foothold in a sector that will account for nearly half of all DRAM sales in five years.
09/12/2007 September 12, 2007 - MEMS revenue will double from $5B in 2005 to $10B in 2011, with a "select group of large, well-established MEMS suppliers" benefiting from growth in the automotive sector, and "new, emerging entrants" to the MEMS market capitalizing on opportunities in consumer, communications, and portable end-product sectors, according to Semiconductor Partners.
09/12/2007 September 12, 2007 - Texas Instruments has narrowed its projected 3Q07 sales to a range of $3.56-$3.72 billion, vs. initial projections of $3.49-$3.79B. Semiconductor revenue outlook has been similarly narrowed around the midpoint of guidance to $3.36-$3.50B, vs. $3.29-$3.57B.
09/12/2007 Global PAT revenues are expected to grow at half the rate in 2007 that they did in 2006, and will improve marginally in 2008, according to new data from Gartner Dataquest. A closer look inside the numbers reveals the emergence of outsourced SATS providers, poised to balloon by nearly a third over the next three years and reach equal footing with IDMs.
CAP-XX Limited, producer of supercapacitors that boost power delivery in mobile devices, has expanded its product line with high-temperature models. The HS and HW supercapacitors benefit from nanotechnology construction.
Horiba Jobin Yvon's XGT-7000 energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) microscope promises fast, high-sensitivity qualitative and quantitative elemental analysis and imaging, transmission x-ray imaging, and dual vacuum modes.