05/21/2002  Fort Collins, CO - Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (AE) will file a motion to overturn a May 17 jury verdict. The jury ruled in a Delaware court that AE infringed on a patent held by the applied science and technology division of MKS Instruments Inc., and awarded $4.2 million in damages.

05/09/2002  May 9, 2002 - San Jose, CA - Novellus Systems Inc. has opened a new manufacturing facility in Tualatin, OR.

04/04/2002  A worldwide shortage in motherglass could cause the growing popularity of flat panel displays, notebook computers, PDAs, and cell phone handset screens to become an even more expensive trend, according to business intelligence firm Provizio, Meridian, ID.

04/02/2002  April 2, 2002 - Micronas, the Germany-based IC developer, and Taiwanese foundry UMC have announced the first-pass silicon success of the DPS 9450 video controller chip.

03/28/2002  March 28, 2002--Taipei--Quanta Display Inc. received an order to assemble rear-end TFT-LCD (thin film transistor-liquid crystal display) modules from Japan--based Sharp.

03/11/2002  Irvine and Milpitas, CA - Intersil Corp. has acquired Elantec Semiconductor Inc. in a $1.4B cash/stock deal.

03/08/2002 

03/05/2002 
An Irish nanotechnology company hopes to challenge the dominance of liquid crystal in the $18 billion on-screen display market. Ntera's NanoChromics display technology can be used for billboards, supermarket shelf displays, e-books, medical testing and smart cards. NTera's goal is to become a leader in the flat-panel display market, which is expected to be worth $40 billion globally in 2005.

12/14/2001 
Business is sometimes likened to a Darwinian world where companies compete for dominance, in the process winnowing out the weak to leave a few strong commercial enterprises. That scenario seems to be playing out in what is perhaps the hottest and most hyped branch of nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes.

12/12/2001  Dec. 12, 2001 - San Jose, CA - Photon Dynamics Inc., a supplier of integrated yield management solutions for the display, electronics, and glass markets, has entered into a manufacturing agreement with Sanmina-SCI Corp., an electronics manufacturing services provider.

10/30/2001  The United States Display Consortium (USDC), aimed at developing the flat panel display (FPD) supply chain, is issuing four new Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and an Open Solicitation for RFPs.

10/19/2001 

10/09/2001  October 9, 2001 - Seoul, Korea - Hynix Semiconductor Inc., said it is considering selling one of its semiconductor facilities as part of its restructuring efforts, but denied reports that it is in advanced talks with a Chinese consortium, according to the Korea Herald.

08/23/2001  Nikkei Market Access says production of 10-inch and larger TFT LCD modules for flat screen televisions will reach 810,000 units in 2001, four times last year's level.

08/20/2001  August 20, 2001 - Tokyo, Japan - Japanese manufacturer Fujitsu is slashing 9% of its global work force as part of its turnaround strategy.

07/17/2001  July 17, 2001 - Beverly, MA, and Bilthoven, Netherlands - Axcelis and ASM International N.V. will work together to further develop dry strip methods for removing photoresist over advanced low-k dielectric materials.

07/16/2001  July 16, 2001 TAIWAIN -- Toppoly Optoelectronics Inc., is building a new manufacturing plant that will include 452,000 square feet of ISO Class 4-ISO Class 7 (Class10-10,000) cleanroom space.

07/16/2001 
Texas is making a name for itself in the smallest of small tech -- nanotechnology. The state is home to scores of research centers, incubators and businesses betting that nanoscale will be gargantuan.

02/27/2001  February 27, 2001--San Jose, California--A super-high efficiency DC/DC boost converter for driving white LEDs and biasing Notebook PC LCD panels is now available from Micrel Semiconductor, an industry leader in analog and power management ICs.

02/27/2001  February 27, 2001--Midland, Michigan--Dow Corning Corp. has established a dedicated Dow Corning PECVD Dielectrics application lab in a Class-1 certified cleanroom for customer sampling and process integration work.