01/15/2007 Harris & Harris Group Inc. announced that it has invested $4 million as a lead investor in a Series D Preferred round of financing in Xradia Inc., of Concord, Calif., that includes an investment from an existing investor.
01/12/2007 January 12, 2006 - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has slightly lowered its planned capex for 2007 despite higher sales and profits in 2006, though the company sees better demand in early 2007 and hinted at "significant" growth later in the year from new products.
01/12/2007 January 11, 2007 - Surplus semiconductor inventories rose 4.9% in 4Q06 to $4.3 billion, ensuring that inventories will stay high in the first quarter of 2007, but the problem appears to not threaten industry growth, according to data from iSuppli Corp.
01/12/2007 Nanosys, Inc., entered into a multi-level collaboration with NTT DoCoMo, Inc., and wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary DoCoMo Capital, Inc. The exclusive agreement involves developing nanotechnologies for product opportunities in wireless, mobile telecommunications in Japan.
01/12/2007 Nanophase Technologies, a Romeoville, Ill., maker of nanomaterials and advanced nanoengineered products, announced that Kevin Wenta has joined Nanophase as executive vice president, sales and marketing
01/11/2007 January 10, 2007 -- /IEST/ -- ROLLING MEADOWS, IL -- Online registration is now open for ESTECH 2007, the 53rd annual technical meeting and exposition of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST).
01/11/2007 The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) announced finalists for its 2007 DesignVision Awards, chosen the 96 judges selected by EIC's Technical Program Committee.
01/11/2007 January 9, 2007 -- /ISOLA/ -- CHANDLER, AZ -- ISOLA GROUP, SARL, a designer, developer and manufacturer of high performance base materials for the printed circuit board industry, announced today completion of extensive upgrades to its Ridgeway, South Carolina facility.
01/11/2007 January 8, 2007 -- /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- PASADENA, CA -- Tanner Labs, a division of Tanner Research, today said it will begin offering scanning electron micrograph (SEM) services in its MEMS R&D and Fabrication Facility in Pasadena.
01/11/2007 Nanosys Inc. and DoCoMo Capital Inc., a wholly owned US subsidiary of NTT DoCoMo Inc., announced they have entered into an exclusive collaboration agreement among Nanosys, DoCoMo Capital, and NTT DoCoMo Inc. to develop Nanosys' nanotechnology platform for potential product opportunities in wireless communications for mobile telephone applications in Japan.
01/11/2007 Molecular Imprints Inc., an Austin, Texas, maker of nano-imprint lithography systems, announced the shipment of an Imprio 250 to a leading semiconductor memory manufacturer.
01/11/2007 January 11, 2007 - ProMos Technologies Inc. plans to establish a $10 million fabless operation in the US to design sensor chips using CMOS processes for handheld devices, reportedly with Cypress Semiconductor Corp. as a partner, according to the Taiwan Economic News.
01/11/2007 January 11, 2007 - Rambus Inc. and Spansion Inc. have agreed to a five-year royalty-based patent license deal giving Spansion access to various Rambus patents. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Rambus said revenues generated from the license would be nonmaterial.
01/10/2007 Virtus Advanced Sensors of Pittsburgh announced it has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with several Taiwan-based UMC Group companies including Unimicron, Taiwan's largest printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer and affiliated MEMS foundry ChipSense.
01/10/2007 Tokyo Electron (TEL), the world's second largest supplier of semiconductor production equipment, announced the company has acquired Epion Corporation, supplier of gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) technology for diverse semiconductor applications and emerging nanotechnology markets.
01/10/2007 January 10, 2007 - Micron Technology Inc. says it has reached a settlement agreement with a group of direct purchasers of certain DRAM products, with the total payment not to exceed $80 million. The company says the deal dismisses it from a class-action suit stemming from guilty verdicts against price-fixing charges in the DRAM market.
01/10/2007 January 10, 2007 - Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL) says it has acquired Epion Corp., a supplier of gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) technology, for an undisclosed amount. Applications for GCIB include etching, smoothing, doping, and physical and chemical surface modification.
01/10/2007 Orders for electronic components rose in December 2006, following a slight drop in November, according to the Electronic Components, Assemblies, & Materials Association (ECA) index. The 12-month average continued an upward trend.
