02/13/2006 Developing a new product -- matching design and functionality with a real market need -- is difficult enough. But when it comes to working inside the human body, it's doubly so. Two recent success stories, one a MEMS company and the other a nanotech company, highlight some of the best practices companies use to navigate the trials process.
02/13/2006 Acacia Research Corp. announced Monday that its CombiMatrix group has begun work on a one year, $2.1 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Funding for this contract was previously announced as part of the DoD budget.
02/13/2006 February 8, 2006 -- /(BUSINESS WIRE)/ -- PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Image Technology, the premier leading supplier of 1X full-field photomasks, today announced that it has acquired a Lasertec Large Area Mask (LAM) defect inspection tool to enhance their full production line for advanced 9-inch photomasks.
02/13/2006 February 9, 2006 -- /MEDICAL INDUSTRY E-MAIL NEWS SERVICE(TM)/ -- FT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Institute of Validation Technology announced details today of its upcoming Aseptic Processing & Sterile Processes Conference, on March 28-31 2006 in San Francisco CA.
02/13/2006 February 9, 2006 -- /IEST/ -- ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. -- The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) will hold its annual technical meeting and exposition, ESTECH 2006, May 7-10, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona.
02/13/2006 February 10, 2006 -- /IEST/ -- ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. -- The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) announces that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released ISO/FDIS 14644-8, Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments - Part 8: Classification of airborne molecular contamination.
02/13/2006 February 7, 2006 -- /MEDICAL INDUSTRY E-MAIL NEWS SERVICE(TM)/ -- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The 2nd FDA Regulatory & Compliance Symposium Aug 23-25, 2006, in Cambridge MA announced today its keynote faculty to date.
02/10/2006 February 10, 2006 - Micron Technology Inc. is merging its mobile and systems memory business units into one memory group, combining its businesses for NAND flash, DRAM and specialty memory.
02/10/2006 February 10, 2006 - Nagase and Co. has acquired a 60% stake in German wafer bumping and packaging subcontractor Pac Tech GmbH for an undisclosed amount, in an effort to expand its business into backend semiconductor manufacturing markets.
02/10/2006 February 10, 2006 - Toshiba Corp. is increasing its capex budget for fiscal 2005 to ¥289 billion ($2.44 billion), an increase of ¥63 billion (US $531.4 million), in order to better compete with NAND flash rivals Micron and Samsung.
02/10/2006 February 10, 2006 - The Korean Patent Court has issued an oral ruling declining to render a decision on a case brought by FormFactor Inc. against Phicom Corp. regarding wafer probe-card technology.
02/10/2006 Osaka, Japan — Panasonic will invest approximately $150 million for a new building and equipment to expand its semiconductor assembly and test capacity in Singapore. Adjacent to its existing plant, the new building for Panasonic Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd. (PSCA) is slated for completion by the end of 2006. PSCA is also considering another new building over the next 5 years to further expand its assembly and test facilities.
02/09/2006 February 9, 2006 - SEMATECH has launched a new project to explore the feasibility of three-dimensional (3D) interconnect technology for the semiconductor industry.
02/09/2006 February 9, 2006 - Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology have developed a new lithography method that they claim achieves results comparable with extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, and five years before requirements by the International Roadmap for Semiconductors.
02/09/2006 February 9, 2006 - Researchers from TI and MIT, funded by DARPA, say they have developed have developed what they claim is the industry's lowest-voltage 65nm-based SRAM.
02/09/2006 February 9, 2006 - Renesas Technology Corp. has developed a massively parallel processor based on a matrix architecture, designed specifically to handle image and audio multimedia data processing tasks.
02/09/2006 Newport, Wales — Surface Technology Systems plc (STS) has opened its new sales and support office in Hsinchu, Taiwan, aiming to reinforce its Asian presence. Along with its Singapore office, which opened in May 2005, the new Taiwan office will provide support for all Asian customers and STS agents.
