Fabs are filling dielectrics with air bubbles, sunning them under UV lamps, and putting on caps to keep molecules in place, but after a decade of development, really low-k (k<3) still has not made it into volume production.
07/19/2005 (July 19, 2005) Bernin, France — Soitec, a manufacturer of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and
other engineered substrates, announces record consolidated sales of 51.2 million Euros for Q1 2005-2006. Sales grew 26.1% over the previous quarter and 57.3% over the same period one year ago. Wafer demand was strong for all major diameters, particularly for 300 mm, which represented 54% of total wafer sales for the quarter.
07/19/2005 July 19, 2005 - Cymer Inc. and Carl Zeiss SMT AG announced the creation of TCZ GmbH, a joint venture (60% Cyber, 40% Carl Zeiss) focused on production equipment for flat panel displays (FPDs). Based on their combined laser and optics expertise, the companies have developed a production tool to improve low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) processes for thin film transistor (TFT) displays.
07/19/2005 SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2005--Applied Materials, Inc. has shipped its 1,000th HDP-CVD (high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition) system--the industry standard for depositing critical gap-fill dielectric films for five chip generations.
07/18/2005 July 18, 2005 - Ushio Inc. said Friday it will acquire an equity stake of 50% in Xtreme Technologies GmbH of Germany, a developer of lithography devices used to make semiconductor chips, from Lambda Physik AG of Germany, reports Jiji news.
07/18/2005 TAMPA, FL, USA, 15 July 2005 - ISPE, a global not-for-profit Society of pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals, has announced the opening of an office in Singapore to serve Members and local Affiliates in the Asia Pacific region.
07/18/2005 PHILADELPHIA PA USA -- MEDICAL INDUSTRY E-MAIL NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- JULY 18 2005 -- Barnett Educational Services announced today the launch of live, online conferences on clinical, regulatory, Medicare and GxP compliance training, for pharmaceutical, biotech and device professionals.
07/18/2005 Agilent Technologies Inc. and Asylum Research have signed a joint development agreement to collaborate on technologies and applications in the area of nanotechnology measurements. Agilent is also making an equity investment in the Santa Barbara-based company. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
07/15/2005 July 15, 2005 - SEMI has appointed Ed Segal, senior advisor to Metron Technology, as chairman of the industry association's International Board of Directors. The association's membership also elected Michael Splinter, president and CEO of Applied Materials, to the board of directors.
07/15/2005 ROLLING MEADOWS, IL--July 14, 2005--The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) will hold its annual Fall Conference November 13-16, 2005 at the Hyatt Regency Woodfield in Schaumburg, Illinois (near Chicago O'Hare International Airport).
07/15/2005 July 15, 2005 - A research group from the Tokyo University of Science has developed a new and relatively simple way to produce carbon nanotubes in dense groupings likes the bristles of a brush, according to the Nikkei English News.
07/15/2005 July 15, 2005 - Sharp Corp. said yesterday that it has developed a thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel that can simultaneously display two different images depending on whether it is viewed from the right or from the left, according to various foreign news reports.
