07/05/2006 June 26, 2006 -- WEST HAVEN, Conn. -- The Enthone technical paper, "Root Cause Analysis and Elimination of Immersion Silver Plating Defects on PWBs through Process Optimization," received a 2006 JPCA Show Award.
07/05/2006 June 26, 2006 -- /PRWEB/ -- Hackensack, NJ -- Progenitor Cell Therapy, LLC (PCT), a leading full service provider for the contract development of cell therapies, announced today that it has completed construction of additional Class 10,000 clean room space at its manufacturing facility in Mountain View, California.
07/05/2006 June 26, 2006 -- Flanders, NJ -- Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RTEC), a leading provider of process control equipment for thin film measurement and macro defect inspection, including data analysis software solutions, today announced the first shipment of an advanced all-surface macro defect detection system to a leading U.S.-based flash memory manufacturer.
07/05/2006 July 5, 2006 - Worldwide sales of semiconductors inched back up to a positive gain in May 2006, growing 0.7% from April to $19.6 billion, according to the SIA. Year-on-year, sales growth increased to 9.4%, from 8.1% in the previous month, and is expected to remain at 9%-10% ahead of last year's levels throughout the summer months.
07/03/2006 July 3, 2006 - Ultratech Inc., San Jose, CA, a supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems, has entered into a nonbinding letter of intent to purchase the assets of Oraxion Inc., a startup developer of wafer stress metrology tools. Financial terms of the deal, which is subject to "the negotiation of definitive agreements and other standard conditions," were not disclosed.
07/03/2006 Avago Technologies introduced a higher-resolution option, AEDR-8300-1Wx, to its series of reflective optical encoders containing an emitter and detector in one package. The encoder offers 8.35 lines per mm (212 lines per inch [LPI]), higher-maximum-count frequency at 60 kHz, and operation based on a single 3.3 – 5-V supply.
07/03/2006 The Correct-A-Chip ball grid array (BGA) adapter enables an operator to mount a 0.8-mm pitch device to a PCB assembled for 1.0-mm-pitch devices. The bottom of the adapter mounts to a PCB with a BGA pad footprint of 1.0-mm pitch, while the top accepts BGA devices with 0.8-mm pitch.
07/03/2006 Fujitsu's mobile WiMAX integrated one-chip media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) mixed-signal baseband system-on-chip (SoC) suits PC cards and mobile devices. Designed using 90-nm process technology, the SoC includes scalable 1024 fast fourier transform (FFT), interface for MIMO RF modules, low-leakage process technology, and a small-footprint FBGA package.
07/03/2006 Arrowhead Research announced that their subsidiary, NanoPolaris, acquired substantially all of the assets of Unidym a Los Angeles-based developer of carbon nanotube-based electronics. Founder George Gruener, Ph.D., will become chief technical officer of the combined company.
07/03/2006 March Plasma Systems and Microbonds Inc. announced a co-development project to align the technology roadmaps of Microbonds' insulated wire-bonding technology with March Plasma's line of automated and batch-plasma-treatment systems. The technology enables bonding wires connecting the die and substrate to touch without causing an electrical short.
07/03/2006 By Meredith Courtemanche, assistant editor
A recent report analyzing delivery time length and prices of laminate flip chip build-up substrates found that increased demand for the substrate in 2005 created supply deficiencies. TechSearch International, who created the report, expects the problem to continue through 2006, and possibly into 2007 and 2008 as well.
07/03/2006 equipped with cameras, color displays, and MP3 players — had something to do with all that extra stuff, and not just the cell service in the Northeast.
07/01/2006 Microsoft Corp. has announced the winners of the Microsoft(R) Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Awards 2006, honoring the breakthrough contributions that companies are making in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries through the best use of Microsoft-based solutions.
07/01/2006 When it comes, what will have been the total cost of the cure for cancer? What is the cost to discover and bring to market a single blockbuster drug? Way too much to calculate would be the answer to the first.
07/01/2006 IEST recommended practice IEST-RP-CC012.1, Considerations in Cleanroom Design, has recently been revised and is scheduled for publication later this year.
