02/28/2006 Bell Helicopter selected Honeywell to provide five key avionic products for the new Bell 429 helicopter, Honeywell announced this week. The centerpiece of the avionics is the new KSG-7200 Air Data Attitude Heading Reference System (ADAHRS).
02/27/2006 February 27, 2006 - Amkor Technology Inc., Chandler, AZ, said that it is adding wafer bumping operations to its existing test operations in Singapore, using "copy-exact" processes currently used in bumping operations by its Unitive subsidiary in Taiwan.
02/27/2006 February 27, 2006 - Semefab is establishing a new design and development center for nanotechnology in its Glenrothes, Fife, operation, under a GBP15 million (US $26.2 million) project jointly managed by the Scottish Enterprise and the UK's Department of Trade and Industry.
02/27/2006 Herndon, VA — The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) has scheduled a workshop for its 2007 Roadmap for April 5, 2006, to be held in conjunction with SEMICON Europa in Munich. Co-sponsored by Fraunhofer IZM, IEEE's Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) Society, and IMAPS Europe, the workshop will give attendees a first look at draft chapters of the Roadmap.
02/27/2006 Chandler, AZ — Amkor Technology plans to begin its wafer-bumping operations in Singapore later in 2006, providing wafer-bump and wafer-probe services to support emerging applications on 300-mm wafers at 90- and 65-nm nodes, and using the same processes currently employed by Amkor's Unitive subsidiary in Taiwan. Together with its existing test operations in Singapore, Amkor also will offer a full suite of its 300-mm wafer-bumping services with its existing bumping operation in Taiwan.
02/24/2006 Research Triangle Park, NC — Integration solutions provider Ziptronix has appointed Russ Bell as VP of marketing and technology licensing, in which he will advance the company's licensing goals. Bell recently served as VP of marketing for MIPS Technologies.
02/24/2006 San Jose, CA — SEMI is now accepting nominations for the 2006 Akira Inoue Award for outstanding achievement in environment, health, and safety (EHS) in the semiconductor industry. Presented annually by SEMI, the award's recipient will be announced during SEMICON Japan in December 2006, and the deadline for submitting nominations is July 28, 2006.
02/24/2006 February 24, 2006 - Demand for semiconductor equipment from North American-based manufacturers still hovers below the parity mark, balancing incoming orders with outgoing sales, according to SEMI.
02/24/2006 February 24, 2006 - In the latest episode of an evolving story of consolidation in the metrology sector, KLA-Tencor Corp. has agreed to acquire inspection systems provider ADE Corp. for $488 million in stock.
02/23/2006 February 23, 2006 - Applications for thin-film electronics applications will generate $15.5 billion in revenue in the year 2011, more than half of which will be used for emerging markets, according to a new report from NanoMarkets.
02/23/2006 February 23, 2006 - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it is making the driver source code for its OneNAND flash memory publicly available, in an effort to generate interest from the open source community, particularly for designers using the Linux v2.6 operating system.
02/23/2006 February 23, 2006 - Vitex Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, a developer of equipment and films used for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, says it is changing its business model to focus on licensing IP for its thin-film encapsulation technology.
02/23/2006 February 23, 2006 - ASML Holding NV says it has produced images down to 42nm, at 84nm pitch and a 1-micron depth-of-focus in a 26 x 33 sq. mm field, on its Twinscan XT:1700i immersion lithography system (NA=1.2), noting a 30% improvement in resolution in dry tools.
