10/21/2005 October 21, 2005 - Micro-Metric, San Jose, CA, a provider of noncontact measurement and assembly systems, has announced that View Engineering, a Simi Valley, CA-based vision measurement systems provider, has acquired its assets.
10/20/2005 San Jose, Calif. — In September 2005 and on a 3-month-average basis, North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.09 billion in orders and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.02, according to SEMI's September 2005 Book-to-Bill Report. This ratio represents $102 worth of orders received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
10/20/2005 October 20, 2005 - Analog Devices Inc., Norwood, MA, is consolidating wafer fabrication operations in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara, CA, to its larger facilities in MA and Ireland, where the company works on more advanced process technologies.
10/19/2005 Herndon, Va. — The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), an industry-led consortium, will hold the first regional meeting to kick off its latest industry roadmap at Productronica 2005, to be held November 15–18 in Munich, Germany. Co-sponsored by Fraunhofer IZM, IEEE's Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) Society, and IMAPS Europe, the meeting is scheduled for November 16th at the New Munich Trade Fair Center.
10/19/2005 October 19, 2005 - European R&D consortium IMEC and chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG have developed a new profiling technique for extracting charge profiles in nitride-based nonvolatile flash memory (NVM), which will allow the technology to compete broadly against traditional flash memory for standalone code and data storage, as well as in embedded applications.
10/19/2005 San Diego, Calif. — KIC has redesigned its website's homepage to provide a straightforward layout where visitors can learn about KIC's solutions. The redesign aims to aid the transition to lead-free production and includes such lead-free highlights as KIC's Lead-free Seminar Series and the KIC Advantage, which provides an overview of KIC and its technologies.
10/19/2005 October 19, 2005 - Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has reported that North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $1.09 billion in orders in September 2005 (a three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.02. A B:B of 1.02 means that $102 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
10/18/2005 October 18, 2005 - European R&D consortium IMEC has added an RF-CMOS arm to its industrial affiliation program for researching sub-45nm CMOS technologies, expanding its efforts from an earlier 90nm program.
10/18/2005 Colorado Springs, Colo. — IC Interconnect (ICI) has qualified its Ni/Au pad resurfacing process for high-temperature wire-bond applications, producing bonds that are stable at high temperatures with a thinner gold layer, particularly useful in avionics and automotive applications. This new process eliminates Kirkendall voiding that occurs in an Al/Au interface at 200°C thermal exposures.
10/18/2005 October 18, 2005 - MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., St. Peters, MO, has received a favorable ruling from the Opposition Division of the European Patent Office regarding the manufacture and use of semiconductor-grade, single-crystal, defect-free silicon wafers having a diameter of 200mm or greater.
10/18/2005 Molecular Imprints Inc., a maker of nanoimprint lithography tools, announced that it has appointed Mark Melliar-Smith as chief executive officer. Melliar-Smith was previously COO.
10/18/2005 Integrated Sensing Systems Inc. (ISSYS) of Ypsilanti, Mich., announced that it has signed a partnership contract for its Micro Density Meter products with KEM - Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing Co. of Kyoto, Japan.
