08/07/2006 Actel Corporation announced that a third-party investigation found its flash-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) immune to configuration upsets caused by high-energy neutrons naturally generated in the earth's atmosphere. Neutron-induced configuration upsets pose quality and reliability issues, said Ken O'Neill, director of military and aerospace product marketing, Actel.
08/07/2006 At the ECM 23 (European Crystallographic Meeting), Incoatec GmbH from Hamburg, Germany, a manufacturer of X-ray optics, and Bruker AXS Inc., a provider of advanced X-ray solutions for life and advanced materials sciences, launched their IuS X-ray microsource. The companies are calling it the brightest sealed-tube X-ray generator ever.
08/04/2006 August 4, 2006 - Solid State Technology editorial director Bob Haavind has won a gold national award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), for two of his editorials in SST's September and November 2005 issues, addressing topics in education and government.
08/04/2006 August 4, 2006 - Brion Technologies says it is expanding its management roster following "considerable" growth over the past year, to help support work with partners spanning design to manufacturing and wafer metrology.
08/04/2006 August 4, 2006 -- /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- TOKYO & MILPITAS, Calif. -- Toshiba Corporation (Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan) and SanDisk(R) Corporation (Milpitas, CA, USA) today announced that, further to definitive agreements that the companies entered into in July 2006, construction has started of Fab 4, a 300-millimeter (mm) wafer fab, in Yokkaichi, in Mie Prefecture, Japan.
08/04/2006 Nanogen Inc., a San Diego developer of advanced diagnostic products, and Fisher Scientific International Inc. of Hampton, N.H., announced that the companies have expanded their relationship to include a research and development collaboration in molecular diagnostics. The companies said the collaboration agreement complements Fisher's equity investment in Nanogen announced in March 2006.
08/03/2006 August 3, 2006 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Renesas Technology Corp. say they have entered full integration testing of 45nm system-on-chip (SoC) manufacturing technology. The process will be used by both companies in manufacturing SoCs for mobile products and networked consumer electronics products.
08/03/2006 August 3, 2006 - Worldwide sales of semiconductors slipped 0.9% in 2Q06 from the previous quarter, but were up 9% year-on-year, as the industry tries to balance strong unit demand with downward pressure on average selling prices (ASP).
08/03/2006 August 3, 2006 - SanDisk Corp. has appointed Atsuyoshi Koike as president of SanDisk Ltd. KK, its wholly owned subsidiary in Japan, to focus on technology and fab operations at its flash wafer development and manufacturing facility in Yokkaichi, a JV with Toshiba. He also will oversee development of the JV's upcoming Fab 4 facility, a 300mm/100,000 WPM fab projected to come online in late 2007.
08/03/2006 August 2, 2006 -- /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- AgION TechnologiesFORT WORTH, Texas & WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Samsill Corporation, one of the world's largest independently owned manufacturers of ring binders, sheet protectors and business accessories, today announced the introduction of its new CleanTouch(TM) Ring Binders with AgION(R) silver-based antimicrobial technology.
08/03/2006 August 03, 2006 -- /MARKET WIRE/ -- LOS ANGELES, CA -- Eugene Science, Inc. (OTCBB: EUSI), a developer and marketer of advanced nutraceutical products, today announced that the Korean Industrial Property Office has granted the Company a patent on its AD/ADD production process.
08/02/2006 August 2, 2006 - Calling it a case of "deceptive conduct" that resulted in an anticompetitive "hold-up of the computer memory industry," the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has overturned a previous court ruling, finding that Rambus Inc. unlawfully monopolized markets for four computer memory technologies that were incorporated into industry standards for SDRAM and DDR SDRAM.
08/02/2006 August 1, 2006 -- /MEDICAL INDUSTRY E-MAIL NEWS SERVICE(TM)/ -- COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Today the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions held a Confirmation Hearing to fill the position of FDA Commissioner, currently held by Acting Commissioner Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach MD.
08/02/2006 August 1, 2006 -- /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TAICHUNG, Taiwan -- AU Optronics Corp. late yesterday successfully turned on Taiwan's very first 42" LCD TV panel, produced by the Company's 7.5th generation ("G7.5") TFT and colour filter production facility located in the Taichung Science Park.
08/02/2006 August 2, 2006 - The top suppliers of semiconductors welcomed new neighbors in 1H06 -- pure-play foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and fabless giant Qualcomm, which vaulted to the ranks among leading chip suppliers in 1H06, according to the latest rankings from IC Insights Inc.
08/02/2006 RASIRC, a steam purification company, announced that Rogue Valley Microdevices has purchased four RASIRC Intaeger UHP systems to install in its facility in Medford, Oregon. The systems will be used to generate the ultra high purity water vapor used for wet oxide growth. The Intaeger UHP is the first commercial technology that can purify steam from de-ionized water.
08/01/2006 Asymtek, a Nordson company, announced a series of corporate rearrangements related to Robert Ciardella's departure as president. Ciardella, who co-founded Asymtek in 1983, will continue to serve as an advisor.
08/01/2006 Advanced Applied Adhesives (AAA) has passed an audit for ISO 9001 certification for their quality management system (QMS). The QMS covers AAA's polymeric and silver/glass die attach adhesive product lines. The ISO standard evaluates a company's conformity to a program of quality management for a system. This was AAA's first ISO 9001:2000 audit.
08/01/2006 Henkel announced the promotion of Larry Crane, Ph.D., to vice president, product development and engineering. He outlined his directives in the new position as accomplishing global integration of research and applications labs and identifying trends in the industry.
