01/04/2006 San Jose, CA — SEMI will host a live press briefing webcast from the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS 2006), to take place January 8–11 in Half Moon Bay, CA. During the webcast, to be held January 9th from noon–1:00 p.m. PST, featured speakers from the conference will present forecast highlights and their outlook for the semiconductor, capital equipment, and electronic materials industries for 2006 and beyond.
01/03/2006 January 3, 2006 -- /IEST/ -- ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. -- The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) continues to offer valuable online education classes. "Nanotechnology Facility Design ? Determining Your Needs," will be presented on Wednesday, March 15 at 11:00 AM Central Standard Time.
01/03/2006 San Jose, CA — On a 3-month average basis, semiconductor equipment manufacturers based in North America posted $1.09 billion in orders in November 2005 and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.92, according to SEMI's November 2005 Book-to-Bill Report.
01/03/2006 San Jose, CA — Worldwide semiconductor sales reached a record $20.4 billion in November, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). These sales increased 7.2% from the $19.0 billion reported for November 2004, and were up 1.7% sequentially from the $20.1 billion reported in October.
01/01/2006 An important new program track entitled Hospital pharmacy compounding-Compliance challenges and USP 797 has been added to this year's CleanRooms Contamination Control Technology (CCT) conference program being presented this March in Boston.
01/01/2006 The 2005 CleanRooms Puerto Rico Contamination Control Technology Conference and Exhibition posted record attendance last November at San Juan’s Wyndham Condado Plaza Hotel.
01/01/2006 For embryonic technologies such as nanotechnology, intellectual property (IP) has become intricately complicated, like building at the nanoscale.
01/01/2006 This invention relates to the decontamination of transfer containers for use with rapid transfer port (RTP) systems, which are used to transfer articles between two environments, such as an isolator barrier system and a transfer container, that are adapted to be brought into close proximity to one another by a docking operation.
01/01/2006 Newly graduated engineers, scientists and technicians working in the contamination-control, design, test and evaluation, and product reliability industries are discovering that
01/01/2006 What's the last thing on the schedule prior to start-up of a new cleanroom or controlled environment? It's normally the one thing given the least weight...