07/13/2006 July 13, 2006 - In the latest step to consolidate manufacturing operations and refocus on core technologies, Atmel Corp. said it has agreed to sell its subsidiary and wafer manufacturing facility in Grenoble, France, for approximately $140 million in cash to e2v Technologies plc, a UK-based manufacturer of electronic tube and sensor components and subsystems.
07/13/2006 July 13, 2006 - AMD said it is now shipping 64bit processors manufactured at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.'s Fab 7 using 300mm wafers and 90nm process technologies, under their wide-ranging development and manufacturing partnership.
07/13/2006 LG Electronics DS Division approved the ALPHA Vaculoy SACX lead-free alloy, from Cookson Electronics Assembly Materials, for wave solder. They will use it as their lead-free wave solder in the CD-ROM division. The alloy demonstrates faster wetting speeds and lowered bridging defects, according to the company.
07/13/2006 July 13, 2006 - Archie Hwang, chairman and CEO of Hermes-Epitek, has been elected chairman of SEMI's International Board of Directors, succeeding Metron senior advisor Ed Segal who held the position for the past year. Other new additions to SEMI's board include Wasuke Nakano, VP and GM of Hitachi High-Technologies' semiconductor equipment business group, and Richard Wallace, CEO of KLA-Tencor Corp.
07/13/2006 Micron Technology Inc. joined IMEC's sub-32-nm CMOS research platform as a core partner, becoming the ninth IC company to engage in the project. Intel, Philips, Samsung, TSMC, Texas Instruments, and others participate in IMEC's 300-mm research facilities. Researchers define their work as the sharing of broad-range, basic research to solve core problems for sub-32-nm nodes.
07/13/2006 Evident Technologies Inc., a developer of quantum dot applications and products, released two next generation products for use in life science applications: T2-MP EviTag labels and EviFluor conjugates.
07/13/2006 Nano-Tex Inc., a textile technology company providing nanotechnology-based enhancements to the apparel and commercial interiors markets, announced that James Curley has been appointed president and chief executive officer of the company and named to its board of directors.
07/12/2006 July 12, 2006 - Semiconductor Research Corp., a university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, has opened a Non-Classical CMOS Research Center for five universities to collaborate on development III-V compound semiconductors, seeking production-quality results that could replace classical silicon CMOS as early as 2012.
07/12/2006 July 11, 2006 -- /MasterControl/ -- SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Training control is historically one of the top 10 problem areas that cause Form FDA-483 citations.
07/12/2006 July 12, 2006 -- Birmingham, AL -- Cardinal Health, the leading provider of products and services supporting the healthcare industry, today announced the acquisition of privately held MedMined, Inc., a leader in technology and services that identify and prevent hospital-acquired infections.
07/12/2006 July 12, 2006 - A projected 28% compound annual growth rate for the flip-chip packaging sector will give a big boost to vendors of lithography and etch systems, according to data from The Information Network.
07/12/2006 Socket and connector provider Antares conTech and UMD Advanced Test Technologies have executed a letter of intent to merge. The combined company, named Antares Advanced Test Technologies, will provide engineering services and products for semiconductor test.
07/12/2006 July 12, 2006 - Micron Technology Inc. has joined IMEC's sub32nm CMOS research platform as a core partner, and will participate in IMEC's advanced flash memory program, joining eight other global IC manufacturers and foundries, both groups announced.
