05/23/2006 Saying that its listing on the NASDAQ has played a big role in Harris & Harris (NASDAQ: TINY) becoming one of the venture capital firms with the most investments in nanotechnology, company Chairman and CEO, Charles Harris, rang the closing bell.
05/22/2006 May 22, 2006 - Marshall Turner, president and CEO of Toppan Photomasks Inc., has stepped down after three years at the helm, leaving to return to his venture investment business. Ltd. David Murray, currently EVP of worldwide operations, will succeed Turner, and take his spot on the company's board of directors.
05/22/2006 The semiconductor industry needs to usher in a new era of "collaborative innovation" to push beyond the limits of classical scaling and achieve new advances in information technology price performance. That idea, proposed by The ConFab opening keynote speaker Bernard Meyerson, IBM fellow, VP strategic alliances, and chief technologist at IBM's Systems and Technology Group, set the tone for three days of top-level executive discussions on a range of issues facing chipmakers and suppliers alike.
05/22/2006 While the common 90nm-65nm platform announced by IBM, Chartered, and Samsung on Sept. 22 aims to offer users the clear benefit of multiple manufacturing sources for a single design, and help fabless design houses better match the IDMs in designing for manufacturability, it's less clear how much of an impact such cooperative partnerships of big chip manufacturers will actually have on suppliers.
05/22/2006 With costs soaring to support nanometer-era IC production, has the fabless industry finally come the point where widespread consolidation is imminent? Or, can fabless companies continue to operate much as they have for the last 15+ years? Daniel Gitlin, VP of semiconductor technology for Xilinx, presented ideas for a new business model for fabless companies in his presentation during the first day of The ConFab in Las Vegas, NV.
05/22/2006 Panasonic has developed strategies and business models aimed at vertically integrating its chipmaking with its appliances and electronic equipment. This approach was detailed by Michihiro Inoue, executive engineer with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.'s semiconductor company, in his ConFab presentation on a new IDM business model.
05/22/2006 San Jose, CA — On a 3-month average basis, North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $1.60 billion in orders and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.11 in April 2006, according to SEMI's April 2006 Book-to-Bill Report.
05/22/2006 May 22, 2006 - Researchers from the U. of Minnesota, Vanderbilt U., and the U. of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method to strip hydrogen atoms from silicon surfaces, a means that could enable production of silicon devices at nearly room temperature.
05/22/2006 May 17, 2006 -- Flanders, New Jersey -- Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:RTEC), the market leader in advanced macro defect inspection technologies, announced today that two major U.S. semiconductor manufacturers have designated Rudolph's all-surface, macro defect inspection system as best of breed.
05/22/2006 May 18, 2006 -- /MEDICAL INDUSTRY E-MAIL NEWS SERVICE(TM)/ -- COSTA MESA CA USA -- The US FDA says the number of medical device manufacturers it regulates has officially passed 15,000, with several percent of those being non-US based.
05/22/2006 May 22, 2006 - Key ASIC, a Santa Clara, CA-based provider of ASIC and system-on-chip services, has signed a partnership with foundry Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. to offer streamlined design-to-manufacture services for ASICs in the mobile and consumer electronics markets.
05/22/2006 May 22, 2006 - Nine companies spanning semiconductor design, equipment, and manufacturing have formed the Power Forward Initiative, a group aiming to design and produce more power-efficient electronic devices.
05/22/2006 Molecular diagnostic tests are the essential tools needed to closely match a more careful diagnosis at an early stage with new drugs that are designed to precisely target disease in carefully identified patient groups. That kind of personalized medicine is expected to greatly increase the response rate that patients have to a drug, which today is often a hit-and-miss approach, and advance the response time to treating disease.
05/19/2006 May 16, 2006 -- MEDICAL INDUSTRY E-MAIL NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- COSTA MESA CA USA -- The US FDA announced today its FDA Workshop on Testing for Malarial Infections in Blood Donors, scheduled for July 12 2006 in Bethesda MD.
05/19/2006 May 15, 2006 -- /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MILPITAS, Calif. -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE:LSI) today announced it has completed the sale of its Gresham, Oregon semiconductor manufacturing facility to Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC, the primary operating subsidiary of ON Semiconductor Corporation.
05/19/2006 May 16, 2006 -- /MARKET WIRE/ -- CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Demand for pharmaceutical packaging products in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico) will increase 7.0 percent annually to over $11 billion in 2010.
