03/12/2007 March 12, 2007 - IMEC, the independent research center based in Belgium, has announced that the Flemish Minister of Science and Innovation, Fientje Moerman, signed a new frame agreement between IMEC and the Government of Flanders for the period 2007-2011.
03/12/2007 March 12, 2007 - Fujitsu Ltd. has released its new LSI image-processing chip MB91680A-T as a new addition to the company's Milbeaut line of advanced image-processing LSI chips for digital cameras.
03/12/2007 Steven B. Strauss, VP of engineering at Antares Advanced Test Technologies, spoke at the opening dinner of the eighth annual Burn-in and Test Socket Workshop (BiTS) March 11–14 in Mesa. The test supply company will also present four papers at the conference.
03/12/2007 The partners say that both Nanosys' chips and Bruker's mass spectrometers are fast and easy to use, and that their combination may "revolutionize small molecule mass spectrometry in many important areas of life science or chemical research and analysis."
03/12/2007 March 12, 2007 - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun shipping samples of an 8GB memory chip to major mobile electronics manufacturers. It is the highest density embedded flash memory developed to date, according to the company.
03/09/2007 The plenary speech at the SPIE's Advanced Lithography conference characterized nanoimprint lithography (NIL) as "unique . . . in that it is cheap enough, fast enough, and flexible enough that it can be used for things other than CMOS." Potential markets for NIL include sub-32-nm CMOS, post-CMOS devices, high-brightness LED, storage media, MEMS, flat panel displays, flexible electronics, and biomedical devices.
03/09/2007 "Companies active in nanotech risk missing out on key opportunities by not looking beyond their own borders," says Michael Holman, Ph.D, Senior Analyst with Lux Research. The company's new report reveals that while the U.S., Japan, Germany, and South Korea still lead in nanotech development, China, India, and Russia are beginning to close the gap.
03/09/2007 Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc., received purchase orders for a combination of 12 Easyline die bonders and 50 Maxum Ultra/Elite wire bonders from a customer in northwestern China equipping its new start-up production facility.
03/09/2007 March 9, 2007 - Silicon Valley Technology Center (SVTC), a development foundry for silicon-based technologies, has announced it is now an independent company, having closed its previously announced purchase by two private equity firms.
03/09/2007 Qimonda AG plans to expand its assembly-and-test facilities for memory ICs in the Suzhou Industrial Park, west of Shanghai. Growth in front-end capacities led to requisite back-end expansion, said Kin Wah Loh, president and CEO.
03/09/2007 Mentor Graphics Corporation, after a collaboration with Xilinx, Inc., released an update to Precision Synthesis (2006a Update 2) to support Virtex-5 SXT FPGAs. Support within Mentor's LeonardoSpectrum tool suite is expected shortly.
03/09/2007 March 9, 2007 - Royal Philips Electronics NV, Europe's largest consumer electronics maker, revealed today that it plans to sell its 16.2% stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) over the next few years.
03/08/2007 IMEC and the Government of Flanders, represented by the Flemish Minister of Science and Innovation, Fientje Moerman, signed a frame agreement for the period 2007–2011. The research institute underwent an evaluation by a group of independent external consultants and peer reviewers to determine grant budgets for upcoming years.
03/08/2007 March 8, 2007 - Litho systems supplier ASML Holding NV (ASML) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Brion Technologies Inc., a provider of semiconductor design and wafer-manufacturing optimization products for advanced lithography.
03/08/2007 Following the win of a court battle with Canon concerning license agreement violation for use of its technology in flat-panel display applications, Nano-Proprietary, Inc. (NPI) announces that Japan-based Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has purchased an exclusive licensing option for use of NPI technology the manufacture of lighting devices.
The partners say that both Nanosys' chips and Bruker's mass spectrometers are fast and easy to use, and that their combination may "revolutionize small molecule mass spectrometry in many important areas of life science or chemical research and analysis."