06/03/2003  June 2, 2003 - San Jose, CA - SEMI has published 13 new technical standards relating to important aspects of semiconductor and flat panel display manufacturing.

06/03/2003  In another sign that established companies are paying more attention to small tech startups, a pair of decidedly old-economy firms are investing in Nanosys Inc. The extension of the Palo Alto, Calif., nanotech outfit's second funding round was announced this morning.

05/06/2003  One scientist calls them the ball bearings of the 21st century. Yet quantum dots tend to get less attention than carbon nanotubes. They are, however, the stuff of which future flat panel displays, lasers and lighting may be made. The field "is wide open" says one analyst.

04/24/2003 

03/27/2003  March 27, 2003 - Northfield, IL - The downturn in semiconductors forced a 20% overall drop in the ultrapure water system market in 2001 over 2000. However growth in pharmaceutical and coal-fired power segments will help push the market past the 2000 peak of $2 billion by 2004. In Ultrapure Water: World Markets published by the McIlvaine Co. the world forecast for 2004 is $2.2 billion for systems and materials. The 2005 market will be $2.4 billion and then jump to $2.8 billion in 2006.

01/07/2003  Optiva Inc., a South San Francisco-based developer of nanomaterials for display applications, announced a second closing of $21 million to its oversubscribed Series C funding round, bringing the total for the round to $30 million.

12/23/2002  GE Global Research, the Niskayuna, N.Y., central research & development arm of General Electric Co., and Molecular Nanosystems, a Palo Alto, Calif., provider of carbon nanotubes, jointly won a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP) award, according to a news release.

12/02/2002  When it comes to nanotubes, the small tech world has been in ready, steady – wait! mode for a while now. Hailed as a wondermaterial, the tubes have been slow to make their way into products. The industry will be one step closer once Rosseter Holdings Ltd. sets up its licensing agreement with an unnamed company in Taiwan. The Cyprus-based concern has been waiting for a break like this.

11/14/2002  SI Diamond Technology has been forced to pare down to what its CEO called "the core of the company" – its subsidiary Applied Nanotech Inc., which develops nanotech for displays, medical cathode devices and sensors. With a recent quarterly filing that listed assets of $1.6 million and liabilities nearly double that, the company is banking on its increased focus on nanotechnology to stay alive.

11/12/2002  Nov. 12, 2002 - Seoul, Korea - Creditor banks of Hynix Semiconductor Inc. plan to lend China's BOE Technology Group Co. about $210 million to finance its purchase of Hynix's FPD unit, an official from Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) said.

11/04/2002  Nov. 4, 2002--San Jose, CA--Photon Dynamics Inc. has completed its acquisition of the rapid thermal processing (RTP) portion of the flat panel display (FPD) capital equipment business of Intevac Inc., Santa Clara, CA.

11/01/2002  Nov. 1, 2002 - Santa Clara, CA - NEC Electronics Inc. has announced that it has changed its name to NEC Electronics America Inc. as part of the launch of its parent company, NEC Electronics Corporation.

10/28/2002  Oct. 28, 2002 -- Seoul, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the construction of a new TFT-LCD module assembly plant at the Suzhou Industrial Park in China's Jiangsu Province. The new plant will cover 100,000 square meters (1 million square feet) of a 545,500-square-meter site acquired for future facility expansions.

10/17/2002  Partner, partner, partner. That's the best way to get a so-called disruptive technology to the point where it might actually disrupt something, according to Daniel Gamota of Motorola. His company is partnering with the likes of Xerox, IBM, 3M and Lucent to create printable circuits for displays, which he says represents a $300 billion market.

09/16/2002  Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc.(CNI) officially unveiled a bead form of single-wall carbon nanotubes today that it says makes tubes easier to process and handle. Called BuckyPearls, the pellets are 2 to 4 millimeters in diameter and retain the numerous properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes.

08/19/2002  AUG. 19- DANBURY, CT-- Praxair Chemax Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd., Praxair's joint venture with China Petrochemical Development Co. (Taiwan), has commissioned the first silane (SiH4) transfill facility in Taiwan.

08/08/2002 

07/03/2002 

06/10/2002  South Portland, ME - Fairchild Semiconductor International, a supplier of power products for multiple end markets, has opened an expanded sales office and applications laboratory in Shanghai, China.

05/23/2002  Though it's hard to figure out just what they're really doing, a Silicon Valley startup claims to have a radical new low-k material that offers k values of 2.2 - without all the problems of porosity.