06/07/2007 June 7, 2007 - Integrated Dynamics Engineering Inc. (IDE), headquartered in the US and Germany, says it has sold its line of wafer packers and wafer sorters to Austrian firm Ricmar Technology GmbH for an unidentified amount.
06/07/2007 June 7, 2007 - The market for lithography photomasks continued to slow in 2006, reaching $2.2 billion (5.4% growth), but should pick up again in 2007 thanks to increased demand from the logic segment which uses more and higher-priced masks, according to a report from The Information Market.
06/07/2007 Tronics Microsystems SA and Alcatel Micro Machining Systems have announced a joint development project on DRIE for extreme-performance MEMS. The partners hope to establish a new performance benchmark for the MEMS industry.
06/07/2007 SEMICON West will take place July 16–20 in San Francisco, bringing together equipment suppliers, SATS providers, R&D institutes, and related companies in the semiconductor packaging industry to highlight new processes, systems, and packages.
06/07/2007 Speedline Technologies will host a webinar July 19, 2007, at 11am EST, focused on the parameters and challenges of stencil printing solder paste to form bumps in flip chip applications. The Webinar will provide process optimization advice and defect examples.
06/07/2007 InvenSense, Inc. has released what it calls "the world's smallest and lowest cost dual-axis gyroscope"-- which also enables dead reckoning for GPS portable navigation devices.
06/06/2007 June 6, 2007 - Identifying image sensors as a key focus area for its semiconductor business, Sony Corp. says it will invest approximately 60 billion yen (US $493.3 million) to expand its Kumamoto Technology Center (TEC) in Kyushu over the next three years.
06/06/2007 June 6, 2007 - Spot prices for DRAM memory have risen for a second straight week according to data from DRAMeXchange and Gartner, suggesting that prices may have finally fallen below costs and could be poised for a rebound.
06/06/2007 The nascent nano supply-chain and production infrastructure shows signs of moving beyond R&D, says Small Times' Tom Cheyney, in our third report of findings from NSTI Nanotech 2007. He quotes keynoter John Hofmeister of Shell Oil (right).
06/06/2007 Physik Instrumente, manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for bionanotechnology, photonics, and semiconductor applications, says its new Nexline motion controller provides picometer-level resolution.
06/05/2007 May 23, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- FREMONT, CA -- MicroFluidic Systems, a privately held company, announced today that it will begin its Phase III effort of the Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector (BAND) development contract from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate.
06/05/2007 May 17, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ -- The organizers of the annual Pharma ChemOutsourcing Conference and Exhibition are pleased to announce the 2007 event featuring 80 industry speakers from a diverse group of pharmaceutical and biotech companies for the September 10-11 show in New Jersey.
06/05/2007 May 18, 2007 -- /PRWeb/ -- MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- Despatch Industries announced today the immediate sale of multiple custom nitrogen atmosphere ovens to an international semiconductor manufacturer.
06/05/2007 May 18, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- MILPITAS, CA -- Grandis Inc. announced the first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) fabrication facility in the United States dedicated to STT-RAM memory technology.
06/05/2007 May 21, 2007 -- /MARKET WIRE/ -- LOS ANGELES, CA -- Eco-Safe Systems USA, Inc. is pleased to announce that International Marine Products, Inc. has completed the purchase of additional Eco-Safe units for its Las Vegas and San Francisco plants.
06/05/2007 May 22, 2007 -- /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NEW YORK, NY -- CECO Environmental Corp., a leading provider of air pollution control and industrial ventilation systems, announced today that it has received six new orders totaling approximately $12.7 million.
06/05/2007 May 22, 2007 -- /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PASADENA, CA -- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it is providing engineering and construction services for Genentech Inc.'s new manufacturing facility to be located in Tuas, Singapore.
06/05/2007 May 22, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- IRVINE, CA and NEW YORK, NY -- Relsys International and Intrasphere Technologies have announced a strategic partnership to offer joint solutions to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
06/05/2007 Since carbon nanotubes (CNTs) tend to grow with erratic kinks and bends in the tube structure, a group of engineers from Stanford University has devised circuit-simulation algorithms that eliminate bad connections caused by errant CNTs. The work, which involves fine grids rather that direct interconnects, is being presented at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 4–8 in San Diego.
Tronics Microsystems SA and Alcatel Micro Machining Systems have announced a joint development project on DRIE for extreme-performance MEMS. The partners hope to establish a new performance benchmark for the MEMS industry.
The nascent nano supply-chain and production infrastructure shows signs of moving beyond R&D, says Small Times' Tom Cheyney, in our third report of findings from NSTI Nanotech 2007. He quotes keynoter John Hofmeister of Shell Oil (right).
Physik Instrumente, manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for bionanotechnology, photonics, and semiconductor applications, says its new Nexline motion controller provides picometer-level resolution.