01/12/2006 January 12, 2006 - Fujitsu Ltd. said it will spend 120-130 billion yen (roughly US $1 billion) to build a new semiconductor plant at its 300mm facilities in Mie Prefecture, to produce 90nm and 65nm CMOS logic.
01/12/2006 Palo Alto, CA — Agilent Technologies has settled on the name Verigy for its upcoming semiconductor test spin-off company. The new name will be used when the new company separates from Agilent; a move expected to happen near mid-2006.
01/12/2006 January 11, 2006 -- /MARKET WIRE/ -- HOUSTON, Texas -- KRATON Polymers LLC (KRATON) announced today the availability of two new grades of its KRATON G(r) SBCs for film applications.
01/11/2006 January 10, 2006 -- /PRIMEZONE/ -- BELMONT, Mass. -- Kronos Advanced Technologies, Inc. today announced that a team of senior researchers at the Disinfection Research Institute Sterilization Laboratory in Moscow found that the Kronos technology completely disinfected a room contaminated with strains of airborne bacteria spores including Staphylococcus aureus strain 906 (S. aureus) and Bacillus cereus strain 96 (B. cereus).
01/11/2006 January 11, 2006 -- /MEDICAL INDUSTRY E-MAIL NEWS SERVICE(TM)/ -- TAMPA FL USA -- SWE Enterprises Inc announced today that it is holding 3 important seminars in San Diego in Jan-Feb 2006.
Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB) has a lot to tout these days. The island city-state already boasts 14 silicon wafer fabs putting out ~400K wafers/month (200mm-equivalent wafers), along with 40 IC design companies and 20 assembly and test companies. Singapore's electronics manufacturing output in 2004 was about $43.5 billion, 39% of which was in the semiconductor area.
01/10/2006 By Bob Haavind, Group Editorial Director
While exotic properties of materials in the nanozone (1-100nm) promise a host of new devices and applications, success in the marketplace will depend on making tough choices and focusing on developing products offering sustainable profits.
Nanotechnology may have a revolutionary impact on leading-edge semiconductor process technology beyond 32nm when traditional scaling reaches the fundamental limits of physics, but for at least the next five years or so the significant nanotechnology applications in electronics will likely be lower-cost displays and memories, according to SEMI's new Global Nanotechnology Markets and Opportunities study.
01/10/2006 January 10, 2006 - A group of 14 chipmakers, universities, and research institutes aims to find ways to control leakage currents in CMOS designs below 65nm, cited as a "showstopper" for future generations of nanoelectronic circuits.
