04/19/2006 San Jose, CA — In March 2006, and on a 3-month-average basis, North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $1.35 billion in orders and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.04, according to SEMI's March 2006 Book-to-Bill Report.
04/19/2006 April 19, 2006 - Demand for semiconductor manufacturing equipment continued to steam ahead in March with single-digit sequential gains, according to new data from SEMI.
04/19/2006 April 19, 2006 - The first quarter of the calendar usually means a seasonal slowdown in demand for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. But this year demand remains high, and so VLSI Research Inc. has hiked its projections for the full year to double-digit growth.
04/19/2006 April 19, 2006 - The US Display Consortium (USDC) and Princeton U.'s Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) have signed a two-year, $1.7 million agreement to develop amorphous silicon thin-film transistors (a-Si TFTs) on a clear, high temperature-capable polymer foil substrate.
04/19/2006 April 6, 2006 -- /IEST/ -- ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. -- The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) announces that three ISO documents have become American National Standards: ISO 14644-3 - Test Methods, ISO 14644-5 - Operations, and ISO 14644-7 - Separative devices (clean air hoods, gloveboxes, isolators, minienvironments).
04/19/2006 April 5, 2006 -- /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- Western Digital Corp. (NYSE:WDC) today announced that it has completed the purchase of the Fremont, Calif., facility in which it has been fabricating semiconductor wafers for the production of hard drive recording heads since 2003. The purchase price was not disclosed.
04/19/2006 April 6, 2006 -- /MARKET WIRE/ -- CAMPBELL, Calif. -- Cryotech International, Inc., a leader in liquid nitrogen and gas delivery systems, is pleased to announce a new line of gas control panels, manifolds and cylinder storage racks that are available to help customers meet their cylinder filling requirements.
04/19/2006 April 6, 2006 -- /PRWEB/ -- Kansas City, MO -- SCD (Sustainable Community Development, L.L.C.), a leading producer of natural biotechnology, has been supporting the clean up efforts in New Orleans with products to combat mold.
04/19/2006 April 6, 2006 -- /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MILPITAS, Calif. -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE:LSI) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Gresham, Oregon semiconductor manufacturing facility to ON Semiconductor Corporation's (NASDAQ:ONNN) primary operating subsidiary, Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC, for approximately $105 million in cash.
04/19/2006 April 7, 2006 -- /FDA News/ -- At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and with the approval of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. Marshals Service yesterday seized approximately 31,800 lbs. of crabmeat being held at American President Lines Limited, a shipping company located in South Kearny, N.J.
04/19/2006 April 10, 2006 -- /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Bausch & Lomb (NYSE:BOL) announced today that it is temporarily suspending U.S. shipments of ReNu(R) with MoistureLoc(R) produced at its Greenville, S.C., manufacturing facility in order to facilitate the further investigation of reports of fungal keratitis infections among contact lens wearers in the United States.
04/19/2006 April 10, 2006 -- /ISPE/ -- TAMPA, Fla. -- The ISPE Professional Certification Commission (PCC) today announced the eligibility criteria for the Certified Pharmaceutical Industry Professional (CPIP), a new competency-based pharmaceutical industry credential.
04/18/2006 April 18, 2006 - Soitec, a French manufacturer of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, said its sales in both fiscal 4Q and FY06 topped new records, thanks to heavy demand for 300mm wafers.
04/18/2006 Irvine, CA — Brian Toleno, Ph.D., of the electronics group of Henkel will speak at the IMAPS Symposium, April 26, 2006, in Algonquin Heights, IL. Toleno, considered an electronics materials expert, will cover underfill technologies and their role in reliability enhancement for advanced CSP and BGA devices. The presentation will also offer an overview of a successful lead-free process implementation.
04/18/2006 April 18, 2006 - Three of Taiwan's top DRAM memory producers have raised substantial amounts of cash this year -- about $4.6 billion collectively -- to support immediate capacity expansions, according to the Taiwan Economic News.
04/18/2006 April 18, 2006 - SEMI is expanding its High Tech U program, which introduces high school students to the semiconductor manufacturing industry, to the greater Phoenix, AZ area.
04/18/2006 April 18, 2006 - Cimetrix Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, is adding a services unit to its software-sales business to help provide yield and manufacturing data management services for fabs and fabless semiconductor companies.
04/18/2006 April 18, 2006 - Sales growth for MEMS devices slowed dramatically in 2005 despite "very strong" unit shipments, with demand increasing for newer markets outside the mainstays, according to a new report by In-Stat.
04/18/2006 April 18, 2006 - PSI-Tec Corp. says it has successfully tested an engineered organic material with better electro-optic properties to convert electronic signals into optical signals for telecom and navigational systems, and possibly eventually optical interconnects and all-optical transistors.