10/06/2006 October 6, 2006 - Micron's latest financials announced Oct. 5 were disappointing on the surface -- $0.08 EPS on sales of $1.37 billion, vs. $0.14/$1.41 billion expectations from Wall Street. But a bigger concern is a potential "execution risk" with a dual-ramp from its JV with Intel, IM Flash Technologies, according to American Technology Research analyst Doug Freedman, who has downgraded his Micron stock recommendation from "Buy" to "Sell."
10/06/2006 John E. Denzel has resigned as president and chief operating officer of Ultratech Inc. Arthur W. Zafiropoulo, the firm's chairman and chief executive officer, has assumed the responsibilities previously performed by Denzel.
10/06/2006 Lumera Corp., a Bothell, Wash., provider of light applied nanotechnology, announced an expanded collaboration agreement with the Institute for Systems Biology, a non-profit research institute dedicated to the study and application of systems biology.
10/06/2006 Gail Flower, editor-in-chief, Advanced Packaging Magazine, will interpret the progress of SMT as a "dance" spinning "upside down and round" in a keynote address during a November 15th luncheon at the Southwest Electronics Production Exposition (SWEPEX), November 14 – 15, 2006, in Plano, Texas.
10/06/2006 October 6, 2006 - ASM International NV directors say they have decided to keep the company intact with both its frontend and backend business, and will concentrate on restoring its frontend business to profitability, negating a proposal from shareholders earlier this year calling for a split of the company's frontend and backend operations.
10/05/2006 Eleven Indium Corporation employees achieved Dartmouth Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, for demonstrated "proficiency in developing and executing design experiments to support continuous process improvements at a competent level."
10/05/2006 The Institute for System-level Integration (iSLI), in partnership with Cre8Ventures, will provide start-up companies with access to Mentor Graphic's electronic design automation (EDA) software. The program is intended to aid commercialization of ideas for start-ups in an incubator environment.
10/05/2006 October 5, 2006 - PowerChip Semiconductor Corp.'s (PSC) move this week to raise around $363 million through issuance of global deposit receipts provides further clues that the company is ready to move forward with a 300mm DRAM fab project with Elpida Memory, according to a local media report.
10/05/2006 Nano-Proprietary Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Applied Nanotech Inc., has entered into a license agreement with Shimane Masuda Electronics Co. Ltd. The license agreement resulted from successful completion of the joint pilot line project between the two companies.
10/05/2006 Shanghai Jinkui Packaging Material Company Limited of Ningbo, China, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dragon International Group Corp., announced it has completed the development of two new packaging products by using nanotechnologies.
10/05/2006 A team of engineers and technicians at International SEMATECH North have successfully used 193 nm immersion technology to pattern features narrower than 45 nm half-pitch in multiple orientations simultaneously.
10/05/2006 Mexico's national research petroleum institute, the Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo (IMP), opened its new center for advanced microscopy and research on Wednesday. In planning since 2002, the center features electron microscopy tools that enable advanced nanoscale research and development.
10/04/2006 October 4, 2006 - By the end of next year, Chinese flagship foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC) will have three 300mm wafer fabs, giving it a total 300mm wafer foundry capacity of 60,000 wafers/month, more than bigger rivals United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., according to a report in the Taiwan Economic News.
10/04/2006 October 4, 2006 - Air Products says it will build a new nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) plant adjacent to existing facilities in Ulsan, South Korea, to support growing demand from domestic manufacturers of semiconductors and liquid-crystal displays. Phase One of the new site will ramp to around 500 metric tons/year by late 2007, accounting for about 20% of the company's projected NF3 global output of 2500 metric tons/year.
10/04/2006 October 4, 2006 - Sipex has officially closed its wafer fab in Milpitas, CA, with product manufacturing from the site having been transferred to China and Taiwan.
10/04/2006 October 4, 2006 - Achor Semiconductor Inc., a developer of technology providing control of IC layout-to-silicon pattern transfer, has closed a second round of financing totaling $7.2 million, to "significantly grow R&D, applications engineering, sales and the marketing team," the company said in a statement.
10/04/2006 October 4, 2006 - Researchers at SEMATECH North in Albany, NY, claim to have successfully patterned features narrower than 45nm (half-pitch) in multiple orientations using 193nm immersion lithography and azimuthal polarization, which allows for aggressive imaging of arbitrary circuit features beyond simple line-and-space test patterns.
10/04/2006 Zuken and Rio Design Automation, with some collaboration from Magma Design Automation, will work in a cooperative sales and technical development program to generate an optimized design environment from chip to package to PCB.
