07/27/2005 NanoOpto Corp. of Somerset, N.J., announced that Andrew Savadelis has joined the company as its chief financial officer. Savadelis was CFO, senior vice president of finance, and a board member at Alfacell Corp. He also previously held senior finance positions at Orchid BioSciences and eMagin Corp.
07/27/2005 Veeco, a supplier of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, announced that it is establishing a nanotechnology center in Bangalore, India.
07/27/2005 Fred Kavli's Kavli Foundation announced this year that it was establishing the Kavli Prizes, three $1 million awards to be given in a biennial ceremony.
07/26/2005 July 26, 2005 -- Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, has announced plans to build a new 300mm wafer fabrication facility at its site in Chandler, AZ. The new factory, designated Fab 32, will begin leading-edge microprocessor production in 2H07 on 45nm process technology. The company says construction on the $3 billion project is to begin immediately.
07/26/2005 North Billerica, Mass. — BTU International, Inc. announces its financial results for the second quarter, which ended July 3, 2005. Net sales for the quarter were $15.8 million, up 24% compared to $12.8 million in the previous quarter, and up 11% compared to $14.3 million in the same period one year ago.
07/26/2005 July 26, 2005 -- IQE Inc., Bethlehem, PA, has begun shipping antimonide (Sb)-based epitaxial wafers, produced using the company's molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) platforms.
07/26/2005 Gyros and optical MEMS are the last of their kind – devices that enter the market at very high prices. The next wave is entering the market in a completely different way.
07/25/2005 July 25, 2005 - IMEC has developed a 90nm low-cost RF-CMOS platform targeting applications in the 5-24GHz range, according to IMEC's July newsletter on this paper, which was presented at the 2005 VLSI Conference.
07/25/2005 July 25, 2005 KLA-Tencor and Aprio Technologies today announced their intent to collaborate on the development of an integrated advanced mask design inspection and repair tool. Both companies assert that this partnership will encourage better collaboration between their customers' design and manufacturing teams. As part of this collaboration, Aprio will provide new functionality to products under development at KLA-Tencor that address automated mask layout inspection.
07/25/2005 (July 25, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — The 2005 Electronic Product Miniaturization Symposium, held in conjunction with SEMICON West in San Francisco, Calif., gave semiconductor industry leaders from companies such as Cadence, IBM, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Tessera an opportunity to share ideas and explore new technologies for designing next-generation electronic products.
07/25/2005 It might sound counterintuitive, but if Kelly Kordzik is right, then the way to develop nanotechnology within your state is not to ask others to help you. Rather, it is to offer to help others.
07/22/2005 July 22, 2005 - Semiconductor industry leaders gathered last week at the 2005 Electronic Product Miniaturization Symposium in San Francisco to share ideas and explore new technologies for designing next-generation electronic products. A number of innovative miniaturization and integration technologies, such as smart industrial design, semiconductor design tools, semiconductor packaging, and thermal analysis were explored.
07/22/2005 July 22, 2005 - The US-Taiwan Business Council's most recent report says the US government needs a more balanced perspective on semiconductor manufacturing investment in China. "Semiconductor Report - Second Quarter 2005" is the latest in a series of quarterly reports examining emerging trends in the integrated US-Taiwan-China semiconductor industry. The number of new semiconductor fabs being built in the US is on a steady decline, while China and Taiwan are seeing remarkable growth.
