08/29/2007 August 29, 2007 - NAND average selling prices (ASP) have recovered to flat to slightly up since a 33% plunge in 1Q07, and demand is picking up, notably for computing applications -- but beware of a lot of capacity that's about to come online, notes analyst firm Semiconductor Partners, in a new research report.
08/29/2007 August 29, 2007 - Toshiba Corp. is speeding up its planned 25% increase in production of CMOS image sensors used by roughly six months, from next March to this October, due to projections of growing demand in the handset market and use of cell phone cameras with increasingly higher resolutions, notes the Nikkei daily.
08/29/2007 August 29, 2007 - Synopsys Inc. and Chinese foundry SMIC say they will develop a low-power design for mobile TV ICs, using 130nm and 90nm fab processes.
08/29/2007 August 29, 2007 - Infinera Corp. and Jazz Semiconductor have agreed to manufacture Infinera's 100Bv/sec ICs for optical networks, using Jazz's 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS process, with four layers of metal.
08/29/2007 August 29, 2007 - Korean foundry Dongbu HiTek says it will start volume production next month of low-power 8MB/3V SRAM devices for EMLSI, a provider of memory for mobile applications, having shifted the work from Dongbu's 0.18-micron CMOS process to its 0.15-micron process.
08/29/2007 August 25, 2007 -- /FDA News/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting consumers that Mars Petcare US, Inc. has recalled two dry dog food products because of the potential contamination with Salmonella Schwarzengrund.
08/29/2007 ZESTRON officially announced the opening of its Worldwide Center of Competence and Excellence for Inline Cleaning. Speedline Technologies, Stoelting and Trek Industries are among the international companies whose state-of-the-art equipment is installed in the new facility.
08/29/2007 August 20, 2007 -- ATLANTA, GA -- Air-cleaning equipment featuring new photocatalytic oxidation technology is used to remove contaminants from indoor and outdoor air. But does this technology also introduce chemicals into the air?
08/29/2007 August 20, 2007 -- /Prime Newswire/ -- CHASKA, MN -- Entegris has announced its acquisition of the assets of the high-purity semiconductor coatings business of Surmet Corporation, located in Burlington, MA.
08/29/2007 August 22, 2007 -- INDUSTRY, CA -- Los Angeles Salad Company, located in City of Industry, CA, is recalling its "Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots" with a Sell By Date Code up to and including August 16, 2007 printed on the back of the packages because the product may be contaminated with the bacteria Shigella.
08/29/2007 In a move to reduce form factor while increasing power of its UHF power amplifiers, MILMEGA Ltd. has chosen Cree silicon carbide (SiC) MESFETS to power its new line. Cree's SiC MESFETs are said to provide greater power density than conventional semiconductor materials, allowing for improved efficiency and more capabilities in a smaller form factor.
08/29/2007 Apogee Technology Inc. has initiated the development of IntellaPAL, a monitoring system designed to improve the security, independence, and quality of life for elderly persons and their families. The company believes that its Intelligent Personal Assist Link (IntellaPAL) will surpass existing emergency response systems, which require the user to initiate alerts and do not monitor health characteristics. The company expects to ship product within a year.
08/29/2007 August 15, 2007 -- KRIFTEL, GERMANY -- The basan group, one of Europe's leading commercial enterprises for cleanroom products and services, has successfully completed the integration of the business activities acquired from Metron Technology Inc. in Europe and Asia.
08/29/2007 August 16, 2007 -- PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Ocean King Enterprises Inc. of Philadelphia, PA, is recalling Ready-to-Eat Seafood Dips, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
08/29/2007 August 16, 2007 -- LEXINGTON, MA, and HIMEJI, JAPAN -- Tillotson Corporation and Showa Glove of Japan have jointly announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement whereby Showa will acquire all of Tillotson's Best Glove operations and subsidiaries.
08/29/2007 Rigaku's new Ultima IV general-purpose X-ray diffraction (XRD) instrument targets materials science, semiconductor, and nanotechnology R&D as well as manufacturing quality assurance. It promises 100X faster measurements and unrivaled application flexibility.
08/28/2007 August 28, 2007 - Edwards (nee BOC Edwards) has sold "the majority" of its "Kachina" semiconductor equipment parts cleaning/refurbishment business to Applied Materials for an undisclosed sum, and its stake in another part of the business in Taiwan, in order to focus on "profitable growth" in its core vacuum and abatement areas.
08/28/2007 August 28, 2007 - Contract pricing for all memory devices have shown signs of recovery in the past month, but stubbornly soft spot prices threaten to erode those gains, and the next few weeks could spell real trouble for the DRAM market, according to data from several analysts.
08/28/2007 High-k and metal-gates (HK+MG) has been touted as the biggest change in semiconductors in 40 years, but as we approach the limits of silicon channels for CMOS circuits, compound semiconductors are being reconsidered as building blocks for mainstream ICs -- and that will be a far greater integration challenge. Enter Intel researchers, who now say they've passed a milestone along the road many travel to heterogeneous integration: integrated superior device performance.
08/28/2007 Veeco Instruments has introduced a line of production-scale PV-Series Thermal Deposition Sources, which promise to help copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film solar manufacturers more quickly transition from pilot to full-scale solar-cell production.
Rigaku's new Ultima IV general-purpose X-ray diffraction (XRD) instrument targets materials science, semiconductor, and nanotechnology R&D as well as manufacturing quality assurance. It promises 100X faster measurements and unrivaled application flexibility.