Asia/Pacific

08/01/1997

Asia/Pacific

The Singapore Institute of Technical Education, with sponsorship from Chartered Semiconductor, Hewlett-Packard, SGS-Thomson, and TECH Semiconductor, will offer an 18-month on-the-job training course to about 140 students seeking positions in the wafer fabrication industry. To be eligible, students must have completed one year of study, according to reports in the Singapore Straits Times; they will get an $850 monthly allowance during training, and will be required to work for an additional 18 months for the company to which they are attached.

Following the collapse of settlement negotiations with flash memory supplier SanDisk, Samsung has been enjoined from selling NAND flash chips and carriers in the US as a result of a patent suit filed by SanDisk. The three-part exclusion is scheduled to run through 2009 and 2012, but Samsung is appealing the International Trade Commission ruling blocking US sales to the US Court of Appeals, and seeking an injunction against SanDisk`s products.

The Microanalysis Centre of Fudan University of Shanghai, China, has ordered focused ion beam equipment, an XL30 FEG scanning electron microscope, and a CM200 FEG transmission electron microscope from Philips Electron Optics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and FEI, Hillsboro, OR. The university will use the microscopes to study process parameters and semiconductor structures.