02/10/2009  After its worst year in recent memory (due largely to one company's missteps), the EDA industry isn't yet on the cusp of an upturn. Laurie Balch from Gary Smith EDA explains what to expect in 2009-2011, and what areas of the industry will lead the return to growth.

02/09/2009  February 9, 2009: The Institute of Materials Science, based in Hanoi, reportedly is selling carbon nanotubes at half the price of international competitors.

02/06/2009  February 6, 2009: Evident Technologies Inc. has been awarded a U.S. patent covering the ability to synthesize a semiconductor nanocrystal structure with a metal layer, which dramatically enhances the brightness and stability of the semiconductor nanocrystal complex.

02/06/2009  February 6, 2009: A new market news review, 2008 Nanoparticle News Review from BCC Research, provides a comprehensive overview of the global nanoparticle industry, offering detailed insight into current and emerging technologies and markets.

02/06/2009  February 6, 2009: Rice University materials scientists have put a new "twist" on carbon nanotube growth. The researchers found the highly touted nanomaterials grow like tiny molecular tapestries, woven from twisting, single-atom threads.

02/05/2009  SEMI has released a "guidance document" for a photovoltaic standards roadmap that lists dozens of standards and guidelines it says are applicable to PV manufacturing to save costs and spark innovation.

02/03/2009  Initial industry financial results from the December quarter are ugly as expected, but what's got analysts more concerned isn't the depth of the downturn, but how long it'll last -- 2H09 should be better, but real recovery might take much longer.

01/30/2009  JANUARY 16, 2009--ROME, NY--The ESD Association now offers all standards, selected technical and advisory reports, and the ESD TR20.20 Handbook electronically in PDF format.

01/29/2009  January 29, 2009: Bayer MaterialScience is building a new facility in Germany that could churn out up to 200 tons of carbon nanotubes a year, making it the largest nanotube factory in the world

01/27/2009  Seeing no more synergies with its now-core technical and strategic areas, Germany's Oerlikon says it has sold its Esec die attach/bonder business to Dutch firm BE Semiconductor.

01/27/2009  Seeing no more synergies with its now-core technical and strategic areas, Germany's Oerlikon says it has sold its Esec unit to Dutch firm BE Semiconductor, and expects a management buyout of its etch business.

01/27/2009  SST's Debra Vogler examines Crossing Automation's new family of modular automation components for vacuum wafer handling systems, and sees the realization of long-recommended reliability practices for semiconductor equipment -- during the challenging business times that they're most needed.

01/23/2009  January 23, 2009: Nine months after debuting a method for growing exceptionally long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke University-led team of chemists has now modified that process to create exclusively semiconducting versions of these single-walled carbon nanotubes.

01/23/2009  January 23, 2009: SiMPore Inc., a company commercializing nanotechnology invented at the University of Rochester, has developed an ultrathin microscope slide that significantly improves high-resolution imaging of nanoscale materials such as proteins, viruses and carbon nanotubes.

01/20/2009  Ahead of keenly anticipated 4Q08 results that will set the stage for how long the industry's dark winter will be, two analysts are casting their vote for chips and equipment, suggesting the former will touch bottom in 1H09, while the other thinks bad times will persist longer than feared.

01/16/2009  The chip giant's outlook for the current quarter is unnervingly cloudy, but the message from the chip industry giant is of continued investment in leading-edge technology, and one analyst says decisions about 32nm process tools are imminent.

01/14/2009  January 14, 2009: A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Rice University offers an inexpensive process that gets nanotubes to obediently line themselves up in neat rows, more like ducks.

01/13/2009  Smart Equipment Technology (S.E.T.), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Replisaurus Technologies, announced a collaboration with IMEC to develop die pick-and-place and bonding processes for 3D chip integration using S.E.T.'s flip chip bonder equipment. As part of the collaboration, S.E.T. will join IMEC's Industrial Affiliation Program (IIAP) on 3D integration.

01/12/2009  DECEMBER 19, 2008--VILLE ST. LAURENT, QC, CANADA--Dorsey Marketing Inc. (DMI) is voluntarily recalling the following three G&J Gourmet Market cocoa products because they may contain melamine.

01/08/2009  Some industry observers may be under the impression that the cause of the current semiconductor and equipment slowdown is the traditional one -- chipmaking overcapacity. However, while there is overcapacity in the memory sector, the primary cause of this slowdown is simply reduced consumer demand. This is not just a semiconductor industry-specific slowdown; most other business sectors are in a growing crisis worldwide, resulting in consumer confidence dropping to an all-time low.