06/01/2005 oday’s designers continually strive to pack more functionality into smaller component footprints, and provide more end-customer value by reducing the effort and the risk inherent in designing new devices and technology.
05/31/2005 Billerica, Massachusetts --- May 31, 2005 --- The Allen Institute for Brain Science (AIBS) is approximately halfway through completing the Allen Brain Atlas, a neurogenomics atlas of the mouse brain with cellular resolution.
05/31/2005 Worldwide bookings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $3.72 billion in April, down 10.6% from March and 34.6% from a year ago, according to VLSI Research Inc.
05/31/2005 By Paula Doe, Contributing Editor, WaferNews
Key issues under discussion for the 2005 edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors include the introduction of 450mm wafers, the problem of improving critical dimension control, and clearer definitions for half pitch to keep everybody honest, said regional committee chairmen in a press conference at the recent SEMICON Europa.
05/31/2005 (May 31, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — Worldwide semiconductor sales declined slightly in April to $18.2 billion, 1.2% from $18.4 billion in March, reports the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). However, April sales were up 6.9% from $17.0 billion in April 2004, and the SIA notes that April is typically a strong month for semiconductor sales.
05/31/2005 May 31, 2005 - Worldwide sales of semiconductors declined slightly in April to $18.2 billion, a sequential decline of 1.2% from the $18.4 billion reported in March, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported today. April sales were up 6.9% from the $17.0 billion reported in April 2004. The SIA noted that April is traditionally a strong month for semiconductor sales.
05/31/2005 May 31, 2005 - AIXTRON AG today announced the delivery of an additional Thomas Swan MOCVD system for the mass production of gallium nitride (GaN)-based ultra high brightness LED wafers and chips to Genesis Photonics Inc., Taiwan.
05/31/2005 He doesn't walk like a duck. Instead his scurrying across the screen suggests a fiddler crab, or a lobster, or a cockroach maybe.
Nor does he quack like a duck, not one peep. Not when he paddles down a stream in his "Stuck with the Duck" scene, or when he bangs into furniture in the Funhouse, or when he does a 360 in a boat or bumper car.
But he can bellow, as the "Aaaaargh" he lets out as he falls through a trap door in the Murky Mansion proves.
05/31/2005 Veeco, a developer of atomic force microscopy (AFM) products, announced last week that it signed a joint development program with CEA Leti, an applied research electronics laboratory in Europe, and Team Nanotec, a fabricator of AFM probe tips.
05/27/2005 BOSTON, Mass.--The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) will be holding its 2005 Summer Meeting at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, June 11-15, 2005.
05/27/2005 (May 27, 2005) Tucson, Ariz. — Spectra-Physics, a division of Newport Corp., announces that its Tucson, Ariz. facility has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification by RWTUV. The Tucson facility is responsible for the design and manufacture of all of the company's Prolite diode laser solutions, including single emitters, diode laser bars, and multi-bar modules (stacks).
