03/16/2006 For now, consumers are likely to experience nanotech in pedestrian ways – perhaps by chewing chocolate-flavored gum or buying diamonds cultured in labs, not mined from the Earth. Those are among hundreds of available consumer products being spawned as companies manipulate matter at the atomic level.
03/15/2006 Colorado Springs, CO — Photo Stencil's upcoming 2006 workshops will provide information on stencil printing performance and how stencil technology and stencil design each impact this performance. Data generated by independent test laboratories during print performance studies, along with Photo Stencil's Dr. Bill Coleman, vice president of technology, and Mike Burgess, stencil product manager, will come together to offer pertinent information.
03/15/2006 March 15, 2006 - South Korea has asked to sit down with Japanese officials to discuss a move to levy countervailing duties on DRAM memory chips, possibly a prelude to pushing the World Trade Organization for a ruling on the dispute.
03/15/2006 March 15, 2006 - ChipMOS Technologies Ltd. posted a profit of $14.5 million on revenues of $130.4 million in 4Q05, up from a $3.2 million profit and $112.0 million in sales in the same period a year ago.
03/15/2006 Los Alamitos, CA — Practical Components, an international mechanical IC samples and SMD production tools and equipment distributor, has added Amkor Technology's package-on-package (PoP) lead-free test board and kit to its offering. The lead-free drop-test kit and board acts as a test vehicle for Amkor's new PSvfBGA 14 × 14-mm, 353-ball PoP base package with a 14 × 14-mm, 152-ball top package.
03/14/2006 March 14, 2006 - Despite current near-maximum capacity utilization rates comparable with or even above previous cyclical tipping points, a similar downturn is likely not in store in the near-term for the semiconductor industry, according to analyst firm Advanced Forecasting.
03/14/2006 Flanders, NJ — Rudolph Technologies Inc. has completed a multiple system sale to a Taiwan-based memory solutions provider. The original order, which wrapped in the second half of 2005, included multiple WaferView macrodefect inspection systems and a YieldView data management system, but a repeat order for a WaferView system will be delivered this month.
03/14/2006 Sensor System Solutions Inc., a manufacturer of MEMS sensors, intelligent sensor interface electronics and intelligent embedded control systems, announced it has signed an agreement with X-Labs Global, a technology advisory and consulting firm based in Los Angeles.
03/13/2006 March 13, 2006 - Four schools in California have joined to establish the Western Institute for Nanoelectronics in an effort to explore spintronics as a possible alternative to silicon CMOS for semiconductor devices beyond the 65nm node.
03/13/2006 Munich, Germany — SUSS MicroTec and Instrument Systems have formed a strategic partnership to develop a next-generation, high-throughput test system for LED devices at wafer-level that tests up to 70,000 LED dies per hour.
03/10/2006 The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars today launched a nanotechnology consumer products inventory.
