04/25/2006 Cascade Microtech of Beaverton, Ore., announced the introduction of a 150mm device measurement platform for measuring anything from semiconductor wafers, ICs, printed circuit boards and MEMS to bioscience devices.
04/25/2006 April 24, 2006 -- /BUSINESS WIRE/-- DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Woodhead Industries, Inc. announces the availability of a stainless steel version of the BradConnectivity Ultra-Lock Connection System specifically designed and engineered to meet the stringent sanitary requirements of food, beverage and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
04/25/2006 April 24, 2006 -- /MARKET WIRE/ -- PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Produce Safety and Security International, Inc. is pleased to offer the Company's new E.P.A. approved Spherequat® 8600 R-T-U (Ready-To-Use) antimicrobial product, for use in Federally Inspected poultry and meat packing facilities, as a proven disinfectant on inanimate hard non-porous surfaces.
04/25/2006 April 24, 2006 -- /ISPE/ -- TAMPA, Fla. -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) and the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA®) today announced an agreement to host two scientific training conferences addressing the International Conference on Harmonisation's (ICH) Q8 and Q9 pharmaceutical development and quality risk management guidance.
04/24/2006 April 24, 2006 - The market for chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) products is expected to see strong growth as chipmakers continue to switch to copper interconnects, according to a new report from Linx Consulting, Boston, MA.
04/24/2006 April 24, 2006 - The roster of companies spending more than $1 billion is set to expand to sixteen companies, vs. 13 a year ago, with memory firms particularly aggressive in their capacity investments, according to a new report from IC Insights Inc.
04/24/2006 April 24, 2006 - Qcept Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA, a developer of surface inspection systems for semiconductor manufacturing, has closed a follow-on Series B round of funding to help accelerate product development, sales, and marketing brand awareness.
04/21/2006 April 21, 2006 - Taiwanese fabless IC design house Solid State System Co. has received pilot devices of a new type of SONOS dielectric storage memory from UMC.
04/21/2006 April 21, 2006 - Several Japanese chipmakers plan to extend working hours during the "golden week" of holidays in late April and early May, in order to capitalize on projected demand for digital consumer electronics devices ahead of this summer's World Cup soccer matches.
04/21/2006 April 21, 2006 - A late-year ramp in demand was not enough to prevent lower 2005 sales for suppliers of critical subsystems for the semiconductor, flat-panel display, and data storage manufacturing industries, according to data from VLSI Research Inc.
04/21/2006 April 21, 2006 - Thanks to sliding NAND flash ASPs and a strong Korean won vs. the US dollar, Hynix Semiconductor Inc. said 1Q06 profits sunk about 61% in 1Q06 on 18% lower sales.
04/21/2006 April 21, 2006 - Ibiden Co. reportedly plans to invest 8.5 billion yen (about US $72 million) to build a new semiconductor packaging facility in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, to tap demand for chip packaging used in PCs and mobile phones.
04/21/2006 April 21, 2006 - Singapore-based foundry Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing is migrating production of CPUs for Microsoft's Xbox gaming console using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) to 65nm process technologies, and is expanding its license of IBM's 90nm-based SOI for use with its own customer base.
04/21/2006 Amtech Systems Inc., a supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies to the semiconductor, solar cell and silicon wafer industries, announced that a major U.S. manufacturer of solar energy products awarded the company an order for its Bruce Technologies horizontal BDF 200 diffusion furnace.
