04/27/2006 April 27, 2006 - Taiwan reportedly has removed restrictions on export of low-end semiconductor packaging and testing technology toChina, perhaps signaling a rethinking of broader restrictions on semiconductor manufacturing technology transfers to the mainland.
04/27/2006 Researchers are busily ferreting out new agents that make drugs more effective. For drug developers, it's a new avenue to explore in the quest to take a limited amount of vaccine and spread it among large populations fighting a potential pandemic.
04/26/2006 April 4, 2006 - Tokyo Electron Ltd. is offering a new wafer-level microelectromechanical system (MEMS) tester to help manufacturers isolate and validate electrical and mechanical functionality at the wafer level prior to packaging.
04/26/2006 Nauen, Germany — Japan-based trading company Nagase and Co. acquired a 60% share of Pac Tech GmbH, an advanced laser bonding and bumping equipment provider, for an undisclosed amount on February 10, 2006.
04/26/2006 April 26, 2006 - Sidense Corp., a fabless provider of one-time-programmable (OTP) memory IP, said its 1T-Fuse family of embedded OTP cores is slated to be silicon-verified in UMC's 90nm and 65nm process technologies
04/26/2006 April 26, 2006 - Elpida Memory Inc. reportedly plans to raise production capacity at its 300mm site in Hiroshima, Japan, by about 24% from current levels to 67,000 wafers/month by fiscal 1Q07.
04/26/2006 April 26, 2006 - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reportedly has signed a contract to provide 0.13-micron manufacturing services to MediaTek Inc., Taiwan's top fabless house, for its LCD TV chips.
04/26/2006 April 26, 2006 - Cadence Design Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, is extending its "segmented" product strategy to its system interconnect design platform, used for simplifying and streamlining designs for printed circuit boards.
04/26/2006 April 26, 2006 -Cadence Design Systems Inc. and PDF Solutions Inc. say they will work together to develop design-for-manufacturability (DFM) technology aiming to improve IC manufacturability, yield, and reliability.
04/25/2006 April 25, 2006 - Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd., Rehovoth, Israel, has agreed to acquire former ATMI subsidiary HyperNex, a developer of x-ray diffraction metrology systems, for approximately $4.5 million.
04/25/2006 April 25, 2006 - Jazz Semiconductor Inc. has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed $105 million initial public offering (IPO) of common stock, nearly a year after pulling its original -- and more ambitious -- IPO plans.
