06/24/2005 RENO, NV -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/23/2005 -- Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. announced today that it will host a conference call providing project updates for their Performance Materials and Life Science Divisions.
06/24/2005 TAMPA, FL, USA, 23 June 2005--At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ISPE has posted a draft positioning paper on restricted access barrier systems (RABS) for industry review and comment.
06/24/2005 (June 24, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — Included in SEMI's new July 1, 2005 standards are 13 new specifications and guidelines for ellipsometer equipment for integrated metrology, sensor/actuator network communications, silicon carbide wafers, and safety in multi-employer work areas. The 13 new technical standards apply to the semiconductor, flat panel display (FPD), and MEMS manufacturing industries.
06/24/2005 June 24, 2005 - Semiconductor Leading Edge Technologies Inc. (Selete) has developed a new polishing technology for the 45nm generation of chips, according to the Nikkei English News. The technology is basically a reversal of the process of metal electroplating, and it works to smooth down the circuit wiring layered over the transistors on the wafer without damage to the neighboring regions of insulator.
06/24/2005 June 24, 2005 - Japan's domestic LCD television shipments in May surpassed CRT (cathode-ray tube) TVs for the first time ever on a monthly basis, according to figures released Wednesday by the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA), said the Asia Pulse Businesswire.
06/23/2005 ROLLING MEADOWS, IL (June 23, 2005)...The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) has issued Contamination Control Recommended Practice IEST-RP-CC034.2, HEPA and ULPA Filter Leak Tests. Leak testing high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters and ultralow-penetration air (ULPA) filters is an important part of verifying filter performance.
06/23/2005 June 23, 2005 - PowerChip Semiconductor Corp., ProMos Technologies Inc., and Nanya Technology Corp. have raised a total NT$43.5 billion (US$1.4 billion) for expansions in the first half of 2005, said the Taiwan Economic News. The three DRAM chipmakers will mostly spend the capital on expansions at their 300mm silicon-wafer foundry plants.
06/23/2005 (June 23, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — Tessera Technologies' chairman, president, and CEO, Bruce McWilliams, nabbed an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 Award in the Manufacturing & Semiconductors category in a program sponsored by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP. McWilliams was selected from 25 finalists in Northern California by an independent panel of judges comprised of local business, academic, and community leaders.
06/23/2005 WESTBOROUGH, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/23/2005 -- Drug/device combination products are slated to hit $9.5 billion by 2009. This rapidly expanding market provides valuable opportunities to strategically diversify market reach and maximize product portfolios. Understanding the development and regulatory pathways is the challenge.
06/23/2005 The nanotechnology community should not dismiss protests. What began for the nano industry as a handful of protestors at NanoCommerce 2004 could gain momentum quickly.
06/22/2005 June 22, 2005 - Aixtron AG has received an order from Hangzhou Silan Azure Optoelectronics Co. Ltd., Hangzhou, China, for an AIX 2400G3 HT and a Thomas Swan close-coupled showerhead system. Silan Azure, a new LED start-up, plans to mass produce high brightness LEDs with Aixtron and Thomas Swan thin-film growth systems.
06/22/2005 PHILADELPHIA, June 21, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Community and Economic Development, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania and the United States Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have agreed to establish a broad framework for cooperation to help promote research, technology transfer and commercialization of new discoveries and capabilities in nanotechnology.
06/22/2005 The Food Safety Mobile is coming to your town! The USDA Food Safety Mobile is 35-feet long and serves as a "rolling billboard" for food safety and as an attention-getting backdrop for educational exhibits and events.
06/22/2005 GLOUCESTER, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/21/2005 -- Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. announced today that it has shipped a platform of VIISta single wafer ion implanters to Winbond Electronics Corporation in Taiwan to be used in 300mm production. The shipment of platform tools consist of VIISta HC high current, VIISta 810XE medium current and VIISta 3000HP high energy ion implanters.
06/22/2005 (June 22, 2005) Atlanta, Ga. — Ron Daniels, Circuitnet editor and principal consultant at ITM Consulting, died suddenly at home during the night of Sunday, June 5, 2005. An industry icon with knowledge and expertise spanning circuit boards, hybrid modules, and semiconductor packages, Daniels started 35 years ago at Westinghouse Defense Systems Center in engineering positions, moving on to Atlanta, Ga.-based Proto Systems as the director of quality.
06/22/2005 Liquidia Technologies Inc. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced a new process to create nanoparticles for delivering drugs and biological materials into the human body.
06/21/2005 SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2005--Eyelit, Inc., a manufacturing software provider for visibility, control and coordination of manufacturing operations for the electronics, life sciences, and semiconductor industries announced today that Innovative Micro Technology (IMT), a leading MEMS manufacturing partner, purchased Eyelit's enterprise manufacturing suite to manage and control its wafer fab R & D and production operations.
