10/16/2003  October 10, 2003 - South Korea's Samsung electronics Co. Ltd. says it will boost memory chip sales to $10 billion next year, largely on the back of its NAND flash memory chips.

10/16/2003  October 15, 2003 - Japan's Dai Nippon Printing Co. and STMicroelectronics have opened a joint photomask plant in Agrate, Italy.

10/16/2003  October 15, 2003 - Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Group is renaming its ISE Labs Singapore Pte Ltd. facility, formally making it a branch office.

10/16/2003  October 14, 2003 - Mykrolis Corp., Billerica, MA, plans to acquire the assets of privately-held gas purification provider Aeronex, San Diego, for an undisclosed amount.

10/16/2003  October 8, 2003 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Fuji Xerox have agreed to jointly develop technology combining the functions of optical switches and transformers into a single component.

10/16/2003  October 7, 2003 - Micron Technology Inc., Boise, ID, has unveiled a newFlash memory technology offering the highest throughput available for 2.5G and entry-level 3G handsets.

10/16/2003  October 7, 2003 - Fujitsu has signed a deal with mobile chipmaker Transmeta to be the foundry for Transmeta's 2GHz Efficeon processors.

10/16/2003  October 8, 2003 - Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, has delivered analog components utilizing its NanoStart wafer chip-scale packaging technology.

10/16/2003  October 7, 2003 - Jazz Semiconductor, Newport Beach, CA, and Skyworks Solutions Inc., Woburn MA, have signed an agreement to co-develop SiGe and BiCMOS technologies for Skyworks' wireless cellular systems.

10/15/2003  Oct. 15, 2003 - The National Science Foundation has awarded two grants worth $30 million to university-led research teams to create Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers.

10/15/2003  Researchers are applying the principles of green chemistry – using fewer or alternative materials for more efficient, eco-friendly results – and the advantages of nanotechnology and microsystems to "do things green from the get go." They see green chemistry and nanotechnology intersecting to cut or eliminate waste from manufacturing processes and foster development of better materials.

10/14/2003 

10/13/2003  So, what's a nice nanotech entrepreneur like James Clements doing in a place like this? The founder of Nanosciences Inc., a man with impeccable business credentials, has apparently fallen in with a bad crowd, hanging out here with a bunch of "crackpot" scientists at last weekend's 11th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.

10/10/2003  Global orders in August of Japanese semiconductor equipment achieved levels not seen in nearly 15 months, according to the latest figures from the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ). Results from a broader perspective, however, appear to be mixed.

10/10/2003  October 10, 2003 - SUSS Microtec AG, Munich, Germany, has developed a new method for creating SOI and strained silicon using direct wafer bonding.

10/08/2003  More than 90 percent of nanotech researchers expect spending on nanotechnology tools and other capital equipment to stay the same or increase in the first half of next year, compared to the second of this year, according to a new report.

10/03/2003  October 1, 2003 - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed 4Gbit NAND Flash memory using 70nm process technology, and a 512Mbit DRAM device using 80nm processes.

10/03/2003  Worldwide semiconductor sales totaled $13.42 billion in August, representing one of the strongest monthly increases in August in a decade, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

10/03/2003  One of the hottest trends in the fashion industry today is invisible to the naked eye. Nanoscale enhancements to classic materials like cotton and novel nanoengineering of synthetic fibers are leading to the high-tech couture of tomorrow. But wash, wear, and wipe duds are just the first swatches of nano-tech to make it onto garment racks.

10/02/2003  September 25, 2003 - Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca, and Pulse-Link Inc., San Diego, CA, have signed an agreement to codevelop digital baseband processors.