02/01/2006 January 31, 2006 - Japanese DRAM memory provider Elpida Memory Inc. has agreed to plead guilty and pay an $84 million fine for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the DRAM market, joining four other memory manufacturers in plea deals that have added up to more than $725 million in fines.
01/31/2006 Scotts Valley, CA — Carsem announces that Oliver Davis has signed on as its new director of marketing, succeeding Paul Smith, who will retire at the end of February. Davis is based in the Scotts Valley, CA, office, and reports to Rick Flowers, Carsem's VP of sales for North America.
01/31/2006 For investors, selecting which nanotechnologies to favor over others can be a little like looking into a marble ball to see what the future holds. The European Commission wants to take some of the guesswork out of the equation. That's why it has invested about $800,000 to draw up a nano roadmap aimed at identifying the technologies most likely to develop into applications by 2015.
01/31/2006 January 31, 2006 -- ROLLING MEADOWS, IL -- The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) has issued a new Contamination Control Recommended Practice (RP), IEST-RP-CC019.1: Qualifications for Organizations Engaged in the Testing and Certification of Cleanrooms and Clean-Air Devices.
01/31/2006 January 20, 2006 -- /FDA/ -- Sacramento, Calif. -- Consumers should not drink Evolution, Harvest or Trader Joe's brand assorted juices manufactured by Juice Harvest Corp. of San Bernardino.
01/31/2006 January 30, 2006 -- /FDA/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking a permanent injunction against Pacific Shellfish, Inc., a seafood processor located at 5040 Cass Street in San Diego California, and Judd J. Brown, its President.
01/30/2006 January 30, 2006 - A new program launched by the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative aims to establish an "incremental" approach toward improving 300mm production and ease the eventual migration to the 450mm new wafer size.
01/30/2006 Hsinchu, Taiwan — ChipMOS Technologies Ltd.'s 69.8% owned subsidiary, ChipMOS Technologies Inc., has signed a one-year BGA substrate supply agreement with RYOWA Co. Ltd, under which RYOWA will provide a minimum of 30 million pieces of BGA substrates per month. The agreement targets manufacturing DDR2 memory packages.
01/30/2006 Washington, DC — The International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) announces that Mark Brillhart, director of Advanced Manufacturing Technology at Cisco Systems, will give the Keynote Address at the Global Business Council (GBC) Spring Conference 2006, set for March 19–20, 2006, right before the Device Packaging Conference in Scottsdale, AZ.
01/30/2006 Venture capitalists invested more than twice as much money in U.S. nanotechnology companies in 2005 than they did in 2004, according to a Small Times analysis released today. The record investment amount reflects the maturing of the first generation of nanotech startups that were founded earlier this decade, many of which raised large later stage rounds during 2005.
01/30/2006 Sense Holdings Inc., a developer of next-generation biometric and explosive detection security technologies for government and commercial security markets, increased the size of its scientific research staff based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The team is accelerating product development of an efficient MEMS-based handheld explosives detection device.
01/27/2006 January 27, 2006 - In a move to bolster its lineup of factory process-control options, IBM Corp. has acquired the Argus line of lithography advanced process control software and related IP from Inficon.
