08/24/2006 NanoSensors Inc. a Santa Clara, Calif., nanotechnology development company that develops instruments and sensors to detect explosives, chemical and biological agents, announced that it has entered into a technology license agreement with Michigan State University for exclusive patent-pending rights to nanoporous silicon-based electrochemical DNA biosensors.
08/24/2006 NanoInk Inc., a company specializing in nanometer-scale manufacturing and applications development in the life sciences and semiconductor industries, announced that it has been awarded a $735,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health.
08/23/2006 Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc. announced that the company and its collaborators received a $1.4 million Phase II program award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to advance next-generation broadband communication devices based on Advanced Diamond's Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD).
08/23/2006 Nanomaterials maker Oxonica announced it has reached an agreement with Petrol Ofisi A.S., Turkey's leading national oil company, to supply its Envirox fuel borne nanocatalyst for use in diesel fuel across Petrol Ofisi's nationwide distribution network.
08/23/2006 Siargo Ltd. of Santa Clara, Calif., announced the release of its low power MEMS sensors for fuel cell systems, including a gas mass flow sensor for solid oxide fuel cells and a methanol concentration sensor for direct methanol fuel cells.
08/23/2006 Joe Fjelstad, CEO and co-founder of SiliconPipe, announced that the company has signed a use license agreement for its entire technology portfolio. The licensee that, for business reasons, remains unnamed, gains access to SiliconPipe's interconnect, substrate, IC packaging, connector, socket, and other technologies. This is the first full use agreement for the company, said Fjelstad.
08/23/2006 August 23, 2006 - The surge in demand for consumer electronics has led to tracking broader economic trends such as consumer spending as a factor in semiconductor industry growth projections, but adopting one of the major economic benchmarks -- US gross domestic product (GDP) -- as a leading indicator for the IC industry is not the way to go, according to analyst firm Advanced Forecasting.
08/23/2006 AMD opened its multi-million dollar R&D facility at the Zhang Jiang technology complex in Shanghai, China. AMD plans to employ more than a hundred workers at the design facility. Partnerships and customer collaborations through the SRDC facility are part of AMD's corporate strategy to invest in China, said Dirk Meyer, president and COO of AMD.
08/23/2006 Sirenza Microdevices, Inc., signed a definitive agreement to acquire Micro Linear Corp., a wireless IC semiconductor company. Micro Linear, which employs about 40 people, will join Sirenza's SMDI business segment. Sirenza supplies radio frequency (RF) components from facilities in the U.S., Germany, and China.
08/22/2006 Integrated Service Technology (IST), a test and analysis lab in Taiwan, estimates four or five of Taiwan's electronics companies have been disqualified for business with the European Union (E.U.) by the E.U.'s RoHS Directive. The company also stated that the disqualified businesses were fined for failed products shipped to the E.U. Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs stated that it received no information regarding RoHS disqualification cases.
08/22/2006 Wacker Chemie AG expects FY06 sales will grow about 20% to 3.3 billion euros (US $4.23 million), better than the 10% estimate cast just three months ago, and has tacked on an additional 70-90 million euros ($90-$115 million to its earnings estimates, thanks to brisk business in its semiconductor unit.
08/22/2006 During SEMICON West 2006, a group of the industry's top senior technologists came together to discuss the limits and possibilities for semiconductor material development. One of the main themes of the technical seminar and panel discussion, sponsored by DuPont Semiconductor Materials, involved the ramifications of a clear shift toward dealing with individual countable atoms, and what kind of endgame it leads to in terms of materials development.
08/22/2006 Boston, Mass.-based Bain Capital and Apax Partners of London signed definitive commitment documents to join the private equity consortium that will acquire part of Royal Philips Electronics. The consortium agreed to buy 80.1% stake in the company's Semiconductor Division business.
08/22/2006 Prodded by recent advances in photovoltaics, the US government, after decades of indifference, is aggressively promoting further development and use of the technology as a means of addressing our current energy crisis. Speaking at the SEMICON West conference, Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), explained how new federal incentives and budgeted federal funding for R&D means that the time is right for high-tech companies to pursue opportunities in solar power.
08/22/2006 Nano-Tex, the Emeryville, Calif., maker of nanotechnology-based textile enhancements, announced plans to move into the home textiles market beginning with an expansive roll out of wrinkle-free performance sheets made with Nano-Tex's Coolest Comfort fabric to JCPenney stores.
08/21/2006 Infineon Technologies, a German company, received a multi-million piece purchase order from the U.S. government for highly-secure ICs to go into the U.S. electronic passports. The passports include a chip in the cover that stores personal information, as well as a verification photo. The passports are constructed by a U.S. entity called the Government Printing Office.
08/21/2006 August 21, 2006 - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has signed a deal to license Silicon Storage Technology Inc.'s (SST) 90nm SuperFlash embedded flash technology, extending a partnership already focused on 130nm technology.
08/21/2006 (August 21, 2006) SARATOGA, CA The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), commonly thought to be a key indicator for semiconductor industry performance, has been questioned as a useful forecasting tool. Advanced Forecasting, a semiconductor forecasting house, found the GDP relevant during only five out of the sixteen years covered in its analysis.
08/21/2006 Nanosight Ltd., a Salisbury, U.K., maker of instruments for the optical detection and real time analysis of sub-micron particles, announced the launch of its Firefly LM10, a low cost nanoparticle characterization system that enables visualization of individual nanoscale particles in suspension.
