08/08/2006 While the overall IC industry seems poised for around 10% growth in 2006, the pure-play foundry sector will more than double up that growth rate, up a projected 22% to more than $20 billion, according to a new report from IC Insights Inc.
08/08/2006 Marvell, a semiconductor company, began construction on a 100,000 sq. m. facility that will house more than 500 employees. The Tai Seng Link building will include regional headquarters and design, assembly, and test operations, as well as design, sales, and technical support. IC design and test and assembly engineering will be the primary focus at the new facility.
08/08/2006 August 8, 2006 - Brion Technologies and Dainippon Printing have signed a joint development program to combine their technologies into a system that can simulate and verify photomask pattern data prior to the printing of the wafer.
08/08/2006 New Way Air Bearings, Aston, PA, has created a new "vacuum chamber stage" demo system which could have application in lithography, ion implant, mask-writing, and metrology processes requiring high precision in deep vacuum. Essentially, instead of putting a precision stage into a vacuum, the vacuum is put into the precision stage -- so the chamber volume is little more than the size of the wafer, and all mechanical linkages are outside the chamber.
08/08/2006 August 8, 2006 - Continued strong demand for semiconductors, particularly in North America and Asia-Pacific, is keeping not only chipmakers busy, but it's turning into a great year for chemical and materials suppliers as well, according to a report from The Information Network.
08/08/2006 August 8, 2006 -- /IEST/ -- ROLLING MEADOWS, IL -- Registration for the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) annual Fall Conference, November 5-8, 2006 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Hoffman Estates (near Chicago O'Hare International Airport), Illinois is now open.
08/08/2006 /FDA News/ -- Wayne, NJ -- Berlex, Inc., a US affiliate of Schering AG, Germany, is voluntarily recalling all lots of its X-ray contrast agent Ultravist(r) Injection 370 mgI/mL (iopromide injection), as part of a worldwide recall, due to the potential that particulate matter in conjunction with crystallization may be present in the product.
08/08/2006 /FDA News/ -- Salinas, CA -- Classic Salads of Salinas, CA is voluntarily recalling 4lb., 2lb. and 10 oz. Baby Spinach and 4lb., 3lb., 1.5lb., Spring Mix, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
08/08/2006 MEMSIC Inc., a provider of CMOS-based MEMS accelerometers/motion sensors, announced it has opened branch offices in Tokyo, Japan and in Taipei, Taiwan. The company said it will open additional offices in Shanghai and in Shenzhen, mainland China for local customer support in Asia.
08/08/2006 Dow Corning Corp.'s Plasma Solutions Business introduced its PlasmaStream platform, which the company says can be used to coat virtually any surface to improve such characteristics as adhesion, waterproofing, low-friction slickness, or anti- microbial properties.
08/07/2006 DuPont Electronic Technologies established a Semiconductor Materials Technical Center in Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, as part of its long-term growth plan. The Semiconductor Materials Technical Center is DuPont Taiwan Technical Center's (DTTC's) third Taiwan facility. The facility includes single wafer processing capability, analytical and metrology tools, and a semiconductor process technology research staff.
08/07/2006 August 7, 2006 - Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc. and the Tokyo Institute of Technology say they have developed a new material for use with non-volatile ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) targeting 65nm manufacturing processes, enabling up to 5x greater data storage capacity than materials currently used in FeRAM production.
08/07/2006 August 7, 2006 - MoSys Inc., a provider of high-density system-on-chip (SoC) embedded memory technology IP, says it has completed the basic R&D phase for porting its 1T-SRAM embedded memory to 65nm semiconductor manufacturing processes.
08/07/2006 Spansion, Inc., expanded its engineering network with a new location in Suzhou, China. The site, set to be fully operational by mid-2007, will be managed by Pern Shaw.
08/07/2006 August 7, 2006 - Air Products has signed a deal to license, develop, and market products based on technology from the U. of Connecticut that aims to help increase the lifetime of polymer light-emitting diodes (P-OLED) for displays.
08/07/2006 August 7, 2006 - Arrowhead Research Corp. and the U. of Florida say they will collaborate on development of flexible thin-film transistors (TFT) using carbon nanotubes.
08/07/2006 August 7, 2006 - Semiconductor Research Corp., a university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, has appointed Jeffrey Welser as director of its Nanotechnology Research Initiative (NRI), overseeing research in nanoelectronics in collaboration with U.S. federal and state government research agencies.
08/07/2006 August 7, 2006 - Helium Leak Testing Inc., Northridge, CA, a provider of helium leak detection systems, has formed a semiconductor fabrication service group to support installation, repair and servicing of vacuum systems from US and international manufacturers.
08/07/2006 August 6, 2006 -- /PRWEB/ -- Sydney, NSW -- Miracle Coatings, a small Biotech business from Asia Pacific, releases Antimicrobial and Ultraviolet Polymers and Biodecontaminators.
08/07/2006 August 7, 2006 -- /MARKET WIRE/ -- BETHESDA, MD -- The Parenteral Drug Association (www.pda.org) joins with the European Medicines Agency (EMEA, www.emea.eu.int) in London 12-13 October 2006 to address "Understanding The European Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Environment."
