09/09/2005 Public awareness of nanotechnology hovers in the angstrom range today, but that¿s likely to change as nanotech¿s potential translates into more products. That doesn¿t automatically mean people will buy in, though.
09/08/2005 September 8, 2005 - After a year of codeveloping next-generation, lead-free wafer solder-bump technology, IBM Corp. has ordered a controlled collapse chip connection new process (C4NP) high-volume bumping line from Suss MicroTec.
09/08/2005 September 8, 2005 - Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. has bounced back nearly to levels before a fire struck its Chungli facilities in early May, causing an estimated $148 million in damages, according to the Taiwan Economic News. August revenues were $24 million, said spokesperson Joseph Tung, with packaging output at full capacity and test capacity right behind.
09/08/2005 Hong Kong and Pleasanton, Calif. — ASAT Holdings Limited and ASAT Inc. has appointed Kenneth Sicz as VP of worldwide customer quality. Sicz will be located in Hong Kong and will report to Robert Gange, president and CEO. With more than 30 years of quality assurance, operations, and marketing experience in the semiconductor industry, Sicz most recently worked in director-level positions at ChipPAC, where he was in charge of worldwide procurement and quality and reliability assurance.
09/08/2005 September 8, 2005 - DuPont Fluoroproducts plans to construct a new manufacturing facility in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, China, to produce nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a key chamber cleaning and etch gas used in chip manufacturing and FPDs. The new plant will have 450 tonnes (504 tons)/year of initial capacity when production starts in 2007.
09/07/2005 San Diego, Calif. — KIC has appointed Valencia, Spain-based Sogelectro s.l. to represent the company in Spain and Portugal. A specialized company with expertise in machinery, tools, consumables, and maintenance internationally, Sogelectro's has offices throughout Spain and Portugal.
09/07/2005 September 7, 2005 - The Brazilian government has announced plans to establish a 990 acre science park to house a new domestic semiconductor industry, starting with a fab to produce high-voltage CMOS, bipolar, BiCMOS, and other processes by 2007.
09/07/2005 San Jose, Calif. — Worldwide sales of semiconductors rose to $18.01 billion in July, a 0.3% increase from the $17.96 billion reported in June, and a 0.03% decline from July 2004 sales of $18.02 billion, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reports.
09/06/2005 Acacia Research Corp., parent company of microfluidics chip maker CombiMatrix, announced that Tisha DeRaimo and Jo Anne Ybaben joined its Acacia Technologies group as vice presidents of licensing
09/02/2005 September 2, 2005 - SEMATECH has received a key tool for exploring the extension of immersion lithography to produce advanced semiconductors at the 45 nm half-pitch lithography generation and beyond. The tool, an interference immersion exposure system from Amphibian Systems, will be placed in the Immersion Technology Center, which focuses on extending immersion lithography beyond pure water-based approaches.
09/01/2005 Utica, N.Y. — Indium Corp. of America has appointed three new applications engineers, Jim Hisert, Dan McCall, and Ed Briggs, each to be located at Indium's Clinton, N.Y.-based corporate headquarters.
