08/01/2002  New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced at a news conference Wednesday that the state will contribute $2 million from its 2003 budget to the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium, which will launch with lab facilities based at Bell Laboratories. Lucent's facilities give the state the advantage of having a "world class, fully staffed facility that was ready to roll."

07/25/2002  The small tech industry in India is poised to take a step forward this October, with the launch of the new CranesSci MEMS Lab, a collaboration between the Indian Institute of Science and Cranes Software International Ltd. The MEMS industry in India is still in its infancy, but given the interest some companies are showing, it is expected to grow very quickly.

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07/17/2002  July 17, 2002 - Milpitas, CA - Transparent Networks Inc., a developer of intelligent photonic switching systems, has expanded and relocated its headquarters from Santa Clara to Milpitas, CA.

07/01/2002  Though the dream of a truly all-optical network has been put on hold while the telecom industry reacquaints itself with fiscal responsibility, a phalanx of startups continue to position themselves. The latest to announce its entry into optical components is Polychromix, which uses MEMS technology for monitoring and managing multiple wavelengths in long-haul and metro optical networks.

06/27/2002  It’s a rare breed they nurture at the Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute: students studying MEMS. TVI had a classroom full of them this spring, and local employers are welcoming the move to train more future engineers in MEMS. But TVI's program is rare on the ground floor of higher education. For the most part, MEMS is still stuck in the ivory tower.

06/24/2002  Quietly perking away in a small town in Switzerland is Mimotec, which expects to use income from sales of its micromachined metal parts to finance its current push into the microfluidic component market. In fact its CEO believes micromolds will be the company's best shot at the U.S. market.

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06/14/2002  A year and a half from now, your next mobile phone may be smaller and more powerful with the help of new micromachines from IBM. The company has announced a new process for building RF, or radio frequency, microdevices directly onto chips. The typical cell phone today uses about 10 of the components IBM would like to replace with MEMS versions.

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06/03/2002  Brian Moore, president and chief technology officer for BigBangwidth, wants to revolutionize the use of fiber optic networks through his Edmonton, Alberta-based company.

04/18/2002  Lasers are playing a larger role in small tech, finding more applications in everything from thin-film technology to sensors to micromachining, and the market is growing.

04/08/2002 
A study by members of Europe’s key MEMS and microsystems association sees the world market for the products more than doubling from its 2000 level by 2005. A new market research report predicts that the worldwide market for microsystems technology will grow from $30 billion in 2000 to $68 billion in 2005.

02/19/2002 
The name of a Swiss custom MEMS manufacturer, Colibrys, tells much about current trends in the industry. The name comes from the French word for hummingbird, a creature that moves up, down and sideways. Colibrys officials say they are keeping with the spirit of their name in the company's ability to quickly move in any direction, altering its MEMS designs to fit the customers.

02/13/2002 
What's life inside a MEMS fab like? Small Times takes a snapshot inside the high-pressure, high-precision challenge of spinning up a state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar MEMS foundry. Kionix Inc. of Ithaca, N.Y., built one of the most sophisticated MEMS production sites in the world from the ground up.

02/01/2002 
Swiss small tech entrepreneurs, research institute executives, government officials and venture investors will visit three major U.S. cities in May to learn from their American counterparts – and possibly even lure some Swiss scientists back home. Switzerland, long known for its precision machine enterprises, is dedicating an increasing amount of public and private investment to small-tech projects, and the May road show is part of that effort.

01/10/2002 
Standing on the third floor of the construction site that is soon to become the biggest MEMS factory in the world, MEMSCAP'S president and chief executive still can't get over it. “Seven months ago, this was a corn field,” he said, pointing at the fields on the outskirts of Grenoble, France. “We actually had to buy the corn from the farmer before we could start construction.” Jean Michel Karam doesn't like to go step by step when building his company. He plunges head first.