07/07/2006 July 6, 2006 - Cymer Inc. has unveiled an argon fluoride (ArF) laser light source targeting 45nm production immersion photolithography, touting a 1.5x improvement in energy stability performance and >20% reduction in cost-of-ownership vs. previous-generation ArF products.
07/07/2006 July 7, 2006 - Soitec, Bernin, France, has revealed more details about its plans to expand capacity for silicon-on-insulator wafers, involving a new 350 million euro, 300mm facility to open in Singapore in mid-2008 that will boost annual production capacity by nearly 40%.
07/07/2006 Pyxis Technology, a design for manufacture (DFM) routing company, raised $9.2 million in series-B funding for continuing R & D and for developing a sales and marketing infrastructure for customer support. Seeing manufacturing and yield issues as design-dependent, Naeem Zafar, president and CEO, Pyxis, said he chose Formative Ventures as an investment partner because of their prior experience with electronic design automation (EDA) technology.
07/07/2006 Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a supplier of ceramic nanomaterials and high-power battery systems technology, announced it has received a $750,000 initial order for its fast charge, high powered batteries from Phoenix Motorcars, a Calif. company that intends to make full function, freeway ready electric automobiles.
07/07/2006 FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., released the V600FIB, an all-new focused ion beam (FIB) system designed to provide optimum flexibility for high-throughput applications including circuit modification, cross-sectioning, sample prep and failure analysis for semiconductor devices with designs down to 90 nm.
07/07/2006 Asylum Research, a Santa Barbara, Calif., manufacturer of atomic force microscopes (AFMs), announced the formation of Asylum Research UK Ltd., a company that will distribute and support its AFM products in the UK and Ireland. The new company is headquartered in the Oxford Centre for Innovation in Oxford which houses other science and high-technology businesses.
07/06/2006 Staktek Holdings, Inc. formed a licensing agreement with Toshiba Corporation involving Staktek's NAND flash-memory stacking technologies. According to the terms of the agreement, Toshiba will be able to use certain Staktek stacking technologies for flash leaded packages until 2008.
07/06/2006 July 6, 2006 - Three months after tentatively agreeing to an eight-year, $1.6 billion deal to supply wafers to Taiwanese solar cell producer Motech Industries Inc., MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. has found greener pastures in a new 10-yr, $6B deal with Beijing-based Suntech Power Holdings Ltd.
07/06/2006 July 6, 2006 - The U. of Oregon has received a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund graduate studies in materials sciences and nanoscience research.
07/06/2006 July 6, 2006 - Cookson Electronics Semiconductor Products and Microbonds Inc. have formed a codevelopment project to combine Microbonds' X-Wire insulated wire bonding technology with Cookson's Plaskon family of mold compounds.
07/06/2006 July 3, 2006 -- /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) today announced that two of its products have received Semiconductor International magazine's prestigious Editors' Choice Best Product Award.
07/06/2006 June 29, 2006 -- /MEDICAL INDUSTRY E-MAIL NEWS SERVICE(TM)/ -- FALLS CHURCH VA USA -- FDAnews & Immel Resources announced details today of 2 CAPA seminars, Sept 27-29 2006 in Boston MA, and Oct 11-13 2006 in Raleigh NC.
07/06/2006 une 30, 2006 -- INDIANAPOLIS -Specialty Coating Systems (SCS) has confirmed that their equipment lines meet the requirements of the European Union's Restriction on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive.
07/06/2006 June 30, 2006 -- /EV GROUP/ -- St. Florian, Austria -- EV Group is pleased to announce this year's results of the VLSI Research Customer Satisfaction Survey.
07/06/2006 June 30, 2006 -- /FDA News/ -- College Park, Md. -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today will celebrate the centennial of the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 at an event dedicated to the agency's past, present and future service to the nation.
07/06/2006 June 30, 2006 -- Carpinteria, California -- NuSil Technology (www.nusil.com), a cutting-edge manufacturer of silicone-based materials for healthcare, aerospace, electronics and photonics, announces the expansion of its European distribution network with the signing of Velox GmbH.
07/06/2006 June 30, 2006 -- /FDA News/ -- Philadelphia, PA -- Shernoff's Salads, Inc. of Philadelphia, PA is recalling Shernoff's brand Potato Salad because Listeria monocytogenes Poly O, type 1 was discovered in both environmental and product samples.
07/06/2006 July 5, 2006 -- Balazs Analytical Services, a division of Air Liquide Electronics U.S. LP, introduces a full-range Surface Molecular Contamination (SMC) analyses, expanding its expertise and services offered with respect to Airborne Molecular Contamination (AMC) testing.
