03/06/2007 March 6, 2007 - Singapore foundry Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing says it's still on track to meet its expected financial benchmarks for 1Q07: revenue of $321-$327 million, down about 3.5%-5.5% from December, according to execs.
03/06/2007 Attendees at Pittcon 2007 were inspired to think about nanotechnology with the plenary lecture featuring Harvard Professor Charles Lieber. Lieber's work blends physics and chemistry with electrical and biological systems, and is focused on "bottom up" manufacturing.
High-temperature electronics are poised to become the strategic technology of this century. Increases in worldwide demand for oil, evolving electronic needs in the automotive industry, and a resurgence of high-reliability in the military and aerospace industry are driving interest. These harsh-environment applications require electronic systems that can survive well beyond the traditional operating temperature range, in high shock and vibration.
03/06/2007 March 06, 2007 -- ROANOKE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luna Innovations Incorporated announced today at the 2007 Food Safety & Security Summit in Washington, DC, two products that are under development to provide an integrated approach to the management of bacterial contamination in food.
03/06/2007 Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance battery pack systems, announced that AES Corporation has made a $3 million strategic investment in Altair.
03/06/2007 February 28, 2007 -- /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- SEMATECH's program in developing solutions for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) infrastructure has brought the technology out of proof-of-feasibility and into the realm of identifying manufacturing challenges, participants at the annual SPIE Advanced Lithography conferences learned here yesterday.
03/06/2007 March 1, 2007 -- /FDA News/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are reminding consumers of the dangers of drinking milk that has not been pasteurized, known as raw milk.
03/06/2007 March 1, 2007 -- /FDA News/ -- Los Angeles, CA -- Simply Fresh Fruit Inc. is recalling Simply Fresh Fruit Fresh Cut Fruit trays dated with sell by date 022607 due to possible salmonella contamination.
03/06/2007 March 1, 2007 -- /FDA News/ -- Cleveland, OH -- Gebauer Company, a 107-year-old medical device manufacturer and marketer, today announced a nationwide, voluntary firm initiated recall of certain lots of its Salivart Oral Moisturizer, product number 0386-0009-75.
03/06/2007 March 2, 2007 -- /FDA News/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating an outbreak of norovirus-associated illness linked to eating raw oysters harvested from San Antonio Bay, TX.
03/06/2007 By David Cheskis, Ph.D., Jazz Semiconductor
Today's analog systems (PCS, Bluetooth, WLAN) have turned to a mixed-signal system-in-package (SiP) that requires specialty foundries providing advanced analog CMOS-based process technologies for better cost, performance, and time to market than a system-on-chip (SoC). The SiP approach also offers an alternative to challenges involved with integrating analog and digital functions into an SoC design.
03/05/2007 March 5, 2007 - Elpida Memory Inc. and Toshiba Corp. make up the remainder of a $105 million private equity investment in Taiwan chip assembler PowerTech Technology Inc., according to the Taiwan Economic News.
03/05/2007 Aeroflex Incorporated entered into an agreement with General Atlantic and Francisco Partners wherein the private equity firms would acquire Aeroflex for approximately $1B. The deal is subject to stockholder approval and closing conditions.
03/05/2007 GE Global Research and OLED-manufacturing equipment supplier TOKKI Corporation (Tokyo) partnered to use plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) film encapsulation technology and manufacturing equipment to build organic electronics, such as OLED flat panel displays, in thinner and more cost-effective packages.
03/05/2007 March 5, 2007 - Worldwide sales of semiconductors remain on pace at 9% year-on-year growth, though they were also down ~1% from December along seasonal norms, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
03/05/2007 Pacific Nanotechnology, Inc. promises a new approach to AFM with its new dual-scanner platform, the Nano-DST. The tool provides both a large-area scanner (which enables study up to 100, 200, or 400 microns in x and y) and a 5 micron tube scanner embedded in a sample puck.
03/02/2007 Accellera members and directors approved the unified power format (UPF) 1.0 as an Accellera open standard, following recent approval by the company's technical subcommittee (TSC). The standard, developed and approved over five months, incorporates technologies from seven companies — EDA vendors, end customers, Accellera member companies, and others. It is specific to low-power ICs.
03/02/2007 March 2, 2007 - Confirming rumors and expectations, Intel Corp. says it has indeed leading a round of investments in Taiwan chip assembly firm Powertech Inc., one of the chipmaker's largest investments in Asia to date.
Attendees at Pittcon 2007 were inspired to think about nanotechnology with the plenary lecture featuring Harvard Professor Charles Lieber. Lieber's work blends physics and chemistry with electrical and biological systems, and is focused on "bottom up" manufacturing.
Pacific Nanotechnology, Inc. promises a new approach to AFM with its new dual-scanner platform, the Nano-DST. The tool provides both a large-area scanner (which enables study up to 100, 200, or 400 microns in x and y) and a 5 micron tube scanner embedded in a sample puck.