06/01/2006 Produce Safety & Security International, Inc. (PDSC), an ozone and chemical sanitation disinfectant process supplier to the food industry and medical/dental facilities, has received a proposal, from a soon-to-be-announced technology partner, for E. coli bacteria sanitization-level monitoring.
06/01/2006 Cleanrooms are utilized by semiconductor, pharmaceutical, flat panel display, aerospace, food and other manufacturers who need to protect products and/or workers from airborne contaminants.
06/01/2006 Despite the somewhat daunting physical clean-space requirements in USP 797, a bigger worry for compounding pharmacies is educating staff in proper aseptic and containment techniques.
06/01/2006 How well does a wiper wipe? When it comes to cleaning or removing micron or submicron size contaminants from surfaces, that’s a tougher question to answer than one would imagine.
06/01/2006 The question of modular versus conventional cleanroom construction is increasingly common in high-tech industries, and one that may have a different answer depending on each individual project.
06/01/2006 There can be absolutely no excuse or justification for the lack of a federally mandated and strictly enforced code of federal regulations for the compounding of sterile preparations (CSPs) across this country.
05/31/2006 May 31, 2006 - Novellus Systems Inc. and Neah Power Systems Inc. have renewed and extended an agreement to develop silicon-based fuel cell technology, related to the application of catalyst and conductive films to porous silicon structures to be used as fuel cell electrodes.
05/31/2006 May 31, 2006 - Toshiba Corp.'s semiconductor company is using Takumi Technology Corp.'s automated layout modification methodology for mask data preparation design flow in sub-65nm IC manufacturing, the companies said.
05/31/2006 May 31, 2006 - Embedded memory IP provider Emerging Memory Technologies Inc. (EMT) has signed a deal to license Renesas Technology Corp.'s capacitor-less Twin Transistor RAM (TTRAM) technology, for use with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS applications.
05/31/2006 May 31, 2006 - Universal Display Corp. (UDC) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. have agreed to codevelop materials for phosphorescent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays that are processable through solution, or "wet" processing methods, such as inkjet printing.
05/31/2006 San Jose, CA — This year's SEMICON West 2006, to take place July 10–14 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA, will feature many keynote presentations, as well as a selection of short courses sponsored by IEEE/CPMT, Pinnacle Training International (PTI), SEMI, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and the Standards Technology Group (STG).
05/31/2006 May 31, 2006 - China's flagship foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing
International Corp. (SMIC) said its wholly owned subsidiary in Tianjin has entered into a $300 million loan facility with a group of Chinese banks, to help expand its 200mm fab in Tianjin.
05/31/2006 BASF and Engelhard jointly announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for BASF to acquire all the outstanding shares of Engelhard for $39 per share in cash.
05/30/2006 May 30, 2006 - Credence Systems Corp. said it will discontinue development of its Kalos 2 flash memory test systems following a decision from "a major IDM" to decrease capital spending, and in an effort to focus on higher-margin consumer lines.
