08/01/2005 Garments play an important role in maintaining the cleanliness of a cleanroom or critical environment. Whether your facility chooses to rent garments or send its own out for laundering, an efficient, certified garment-laundering program is essential for ensuring the integrity of cleanroom wearables.
08/01/2005 Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (www.freescale.com) has embarked on a memory technology-magnetic tunnel-junction random access memory, or MRAM-that is proving to have implications for manufacturing in Freescale’s own cleanrooms.
08/01/2005 As device manufacturing continues down the path of smaller geometries and increased densities laid out by Moore’s law, the importance of packaging technology to the overall performance of the device continues to grow in parallel.
08/01/2005 There are just so many tradeshows that you can attend each year, but if you have to choose just a few for back-end assembly, SEMICON West and IMAPS should be high on your list.
07/28/2005 Chandler, Ariz. — Amkor Technology reports Q2 2005 sales of $489 million, up 17% sequentially and down 1% from Q2 2004. Q2 net loss was $52 million ($0.30 per share). For Q2 2004, net income was $10 million ($0.06 per share) and included after-tax gains of $16.5 million ($0.09 per share) from an equity investment sale and a litigation settlement with a software provider.
07/28/2005 Nano has moved into the public domain, often hyped as either a technological savior or demon. Allowing an informed public to assess its benefits and risks likely will involve scientists, educators and other communicators.
07/27/2005 July 27, 2005 - Elpida Memory Inc., a Japanese supplier of DRAM, has announced that it has reached an agreement with Advantest, Kingston Technology, and Powertech Technology on forming a new start-up company that will serve as reportedly the world's largest wafer testing service. The new company, to be called Tera Probe, is expected to begin operations on October 1.
