01/09/2007 Virtus Advanced Sensors, which specializes in MEMS-based sensors, entered into a collaboration agreement with several UMC Group companies including PCB manufacturer Unimicron and affiliated MEMS foundry Chipsense, both based in Taiwan.
01/09/2007 January 9, 2007 - AXT Inc. says it closed a sale of an additional 862,500 shares for an overallotment option in its Dec. 19 public offering, with net proceeds of about $3.6 million.
01/09/2007 Indium Corporation appointed Tim Jensen product manager for advanced assembly materials, and promoted Jordan Ross to product specialist for thermal applications. Both Jensen and Ross will continue to operate out of Indium headquarters in Clinton.
01/09/2007 WUS Printed Circuit Co., Ltd., will shutter packaging-substrate supplier WUS Microelectronics Co., Ltd., due to long-term operating losses. The microelectronics unit was formed in 2000 from the company's tape automated bonding (TAB) and flexible printed circuits businesses.
01/09/2007 Six months after drastically rewriting their outlooks for a bleak 2007 for semiconductor equipment and capex, most analysts surveyed by WaferNEWS appear to be moderating their expectations a bit for both a less-harsh 2007 and less-ambitious 2008. With healthy and diverse end-demand helping to stabilize chipmakers's spending habits, the real questions now surround the macroeconomic environment, and whether memory firms show they've learned to reign in their capital spending.
01/09/2007 A Dec. 8 workshop at Stanford U.'s Center for Magnetic Nanotechnology on the patterning and imaging of magnetic nanostructures offered many looks at the future of data storage, including unique fabrication technology used to make heads with state-of-the art sensors, and the challenges of "bit patterned media." Several interesting presentations also delved into medical and biotech applications of magnetic nanoparticles.
01/09/2007 U.S. federal government officials who coordinate nanotechnology research held a public meeting on Jan. 4 to get comments on what types of research are most important to study nanotechnology risks. The meeting convened experts and stakeholders in Arlington, Va., to present what they thought such research should focus on.
01/09/2007 January 9, 2007 - Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. has appointed Eg Kah Yee as CEO and executive director, replacing Bruce Gray, who held the position since July 2005 after serving two years as EVP and COO.
01/09/2007 NovaCentrix, an Austin, Texas, nanotechnology products company with a focus on applications in printable electronics, life sciences, and energetics, announced advancements to allow high volume production of nanopowders.
01/08/2007 January 5, 2007 -- OAKDALE, Minn. -- Dyneon LLC, a 3M company and one of the world's leading fluoropolymer producers, recently announced that it will acquire 3M's Bioanalytical Technologies business including the Empore™ Solid Phase Extraction family of products, effective January 1, 2007.
01/08/2007 January 8, 2007 - UMC says it has begun construction of its 300mm Fab 12B in southern Taiwan's Tainan Science Park, and a R&D center on the site is entering the final stages of construction, on pace to be completed in March.
01/08/2007 Hymite A/S, wafer-level packaging supplier, closed a round of series preferred B financing at 9 million euros. A European consortium proffered the investment.
01/08/2007 January 8, 2006 - Months after being rescued by a new credit line following a "going concern" warning, Therma-Wave Inc. has found a new savior -- KLA-Tencor Corp., which has agreed to acquire the process control metrology system provider for $75 million in cash.
01/08/2007 Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., announced that its Inertial Stellar Compass (ISC) is now fully operational on board the TacSat-2 spacecraft, representing the first use of a MEMS gyro in a complete spacecraft attitude determination system.
01/08/2007 InvenSense, a Santa Clara, Calif., provider of integrated motion sensing solutions for mobile and consumer applications, announced it has secured $11 million in Series B funding.
01/05/2007 ViaLogy, Boeing, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA) collaborated to create active-error-suppression software to improve stability of MEMS in harsh environments.
01/05/2007 January 5, 2007 - DRAM sales are set to reach their second-highest level ever in 2007, second only to the peak year of 1995, but year-on-year growth will be stunted due to price erosion, according to analyst firm iSuppli Corp.
01/05/2007 Advance Nanotech Inc., a New York-based provider of financing and support services to drive the commercialization of nanotechnology related products for homeland security and display technologies, announced that the company's subsidiary, Advance Display Technologies plc, has appointed Gerhard Rebel to the position of chief technology officer and Tom Holzel, a display industry veteran, to its board of directors.
01/05/2007 Accelrys Inc., the San Diego-based software developer, announced the integration of Materials Studio 4.1, a comprehensive suite of PC-based modeling and simulation solutions for studying a wide range of materials properties and processes, with the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), a principal product of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC).
