08/09/2007 SATS provider Carsem will install a Teradyne, Inc., microFLEX test system at its Ipoh, Malaysia, facility. Carsem plans to test battery-management devices used in automotive applications, with the microFLEX equipped with DC90 instrumentation.
08/09/2007 Carl Zeiss SMT says the introduction of its Orion microscope marks the start of a new era in microscopy. Instead of using electrons as is typical in SEMs, the Orion images and measures using a beam of Helium ions, which can be focused into a smaller probe size for substantially better results.
08/09/2007 Bruker AXS Inc., global developer and provider of life science, materials research, and industrial X-ray analysis tools, has teamed with Incoatec GmbH, a developer of X-ray optical components, to introduce a new Super Speed X-ray source-detector combination to enhance Bruker instruments, including the popular D8 Discover with GADDS and the Nanostar.
08/08/2007 August 8, 2007 - Cell phone maker Nokia says it will outsource development of its 3G chips to STMicroelectronics and has extended its partnership with Broadcom to include the supplier's EDGE chips -- deals that could dent business outlooks for Texas Instruments and Qualcomm.
08/08/2007 August 8, 2007 - The global thin-film photovoltaics (PV) market stands at just over $1 billion today, but should surge to $7.2 billion by 2015, driven by the technology's low cost and weight, and ability to manufacture the films on flexible substrates to increase their usability, according to a report from NanoMarkets LLC.
08/08/2007 August 8, 2007 - Nearly a year after putting some of its lithography metrology patents up for auction, Nova Measuring Instruments says it has signed a >$1 million deal with an unnamed "top-10 semiconductor manufacturer" for a license covering use of its technologies for integrated metrology and integrated process control before and during the photolithography manufacturing step.
08/08/2007 August 8, 2007 - Despite worries that plunging memory device ASPs would dent profits and ultimately capacity investment plans, it seems device manufacturers are still pouring investments into 300mm capacity, according to data from SEMI.
08/08/2007 Yole Développement (Lyons, France) and Chipworks, Inc. (Ottawa, Canada), presented their first MEMS market briefing in Asia, with speakers from BOSCH Japan and Silex Microsystems. The event occurred this July at Micromachine 2007 in Tokyo.
08/08/2007 FEI Company's latest and most powerful scanning electron microscope series, Nova NanoSEM 30, promises "unprecedented capabilities" for nanotechnology characterization and prototyping.
08/08/2007 August 8, 2007 - Willem Roelandts, CEO/president/chairman of fabless firm Xilinx, is retiring from his executive positions, though will remain chairman of the company he has led for more than a decade.
08/08/2007 A coalition headed by the International Center for Technology Assessment, which says it is, "devoted to study of and remedies for the ethical problems of patents on life and human body parts," has released a 15-page document, Principles for the Oversight of Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials. Endorsed by more than 40 organizations, including trade unions and environmental groups such as Greenpeace, the document outlines principles for oversight and assessment of nanotechnology.
08/08/2007 Arrowhead Research Corp.'s majority-owned subsidiary, Unidym Inc., has signed an exclusive license agreement with Paragon's majority-owned subsidiary, Nanotech Catheter Solutions, LLC (NCS). NCS will use Unidym's carbon nanotube technology in the development of medical devices for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.
08/08/2007 Owlstone Nanotech has launched a new product line, Lonestar. According to the company, Lonestar provides a powerful and adaptable chemical monitor in a self-contained, compact, portable unit that can be easily integrated into industrial settings. Incorporating Owlstone's proprietary Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometry (FAIMS) technology, the instrument can provide rapid alerts and detailed sample analysis.
08/08/2007 Speakers recommend a careful, "back to basics" tack for nano risk assessment. A report from the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance's environmental health and safety seminar by Small Times' Pam Roth O'Mara.
08/08/2007 Unisem Berhad appointed Bruno Guilmart executive director and group CEO, as part of integrating Advanced Interconnect Technologies Limited (AIT) into the SATS company. Ang Chye Hock, formerly president, will assume the role of executive director and group chief operating officer (COO), Unisem.
08/07/2007 A new round of financing for Group IV Semiconductor Inc., an Ottawa-based startup developing silicon-based solid-state light emitters, comes with a twist: support from Applied Materials' VC arm and a promise to work together to get the company's technology to a cost-effective production model within two years.
08/07/2007 IMEC's VP of Business Development, Ludo Deferm, takes SST On the Scene down the path from 45nm to 22nm, and points out the tough questions that loom, such as single-node lithography options and introduction of new architectures such as finFETs. Meanwhile, Larry Larson, frontend associate director at SEMATECH, explains whether Schottky contacts could be a solution to the need for lower resistivity contacts.
08/07/2007 August 7, 2007 - In what might be called "memory rubbernecking," two industry groups have laid out the gory details of how DRAM chipmakers performed in 2Q07, and to nobody's surprise the numbers are pretty ugly.
08/07/2007 BlueShift Technologies, the startup led by former Brooks Automation execs that decloaked from stealth-mode a year ago with support from Intel's VC arm, is now confidently touting its business model combining modular hardware and software, with a handful of shipments now to show for its efforts.
Carl Zeiss SMT says the introduction of its Orion microscope marks the start of a new era in microscopy. Instead of using electrons as is typical in SEMs, the Orion images and measures using a beam of Helium ions, which can be focused into a smaller probe size for substantially better results.
FEI Company's latest and most powerful scanning electron microscope series, Nova NanoSEM 30, promises "unprecedented capabilities" for nanotechnology characterization and prototyping.