09/23/2002  Sept. 23, 2002 - Fremont, CA - ChipPAC Inc., a provider of semiconductor assembly and test services, and Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (ASMC), Shanghai, China, an analog and power wafer foundry company, have formed a new alliance to support customers in the analog and power markets.

09/20/2002  Sept. 20, 2002 - Seoul, Korea - Samsung Electronics plans to invest about 6 trillion won (US$5 billion) next year for expansion of manufacturing facilities.

09/20/2002  SEPT. 20--WATERTOWN, MA-- Ionics, Inc. has acquired the business and assets, including patents and know-how, of Microbar Inc.'s EnChem wastewater treatment process.

09/19/2002  Sept. 19, 2002 - Tokyo, Japan - Toshiba Corp. plans to increase outsourcing of system chips to allow its domestic factories to focus on the production of high-value goods.

09/17/2002  Samsung Electronics Co. said it plans to make extensive use of nanoscale technology in future chips and other new products, according to Asia Pulse.

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09/13/2002  Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, is using integrated silicon technologies in an attempt to drive the convergence of computing and communications over the next decade, enabling a digital future that makes electronic devices simpler, less expensive, and easier to use.

09/12/2002  Sept. 12, 2002 - Danbury, CT - ATMI Inc., a provider of specialty materials and services to the semiconductor industry, and Metara Inc., a supplier of automated metrology systems, have signed a joint development and manufacturing agreement.

09/12/2002  Nanotechnology and nanomaterials will be critical to solving the semiconductor industry’s formidable challenges, said John Kelly, IBM senior vice president and a keynote speaker at the Albany Symposium on Global Nanotechnology. Kelly said IBM is looking toward a future in which circuitry patterns are made through molecular self-assembly.

09/12/2002  Semiconductor giant Intel Corp. today revealed plans to apply nanotechnology and MEMS devices across a range of projects, including sensor networks and optical “building blocks” that will advance the integration of computing and communications.

09/09/2002  Sept. 9, 2002 - Taipei, Taiwan, and Sunnyvale, CA - AMD and UMC plan to jointly develop advanced process control (APC) technology for cost-effective, high-volume 300mm semiconductor manufacturing.

09/09/2002  Nanoscale computing took a significant step forward today with Hewlett Packard's announcement that it has fabricated a 64-bit array that switches molecules on and off inside a grid of nanowires only a square micron in size. The prototype circuit has 10 times the density of today's RAM memory chips. The first market for the technology would be flash memory for portable devices.

09/06/2002  SEPT. 6--THAILAND--Submicron Technology's long-delayed wafer fabrication plant is finally set to become a reality, making Thailand the first country in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to produce wafers using .09-micron microelectronic technology.

09/06/2002  MEMSIC Inc., which makes CMOS-based MEMS accelerometers/sensors, is now offering an accelerometer with sensitivity compensation over temperature that is, according to the company, pin-for-pin compatible with Analog Devices' (ADI) 14-lead CERPAK, cutting costs up to 50 percent and shortening lead times

09/05/2002  MEMS devices need to be tightly sealed against contaminants. Yet packaging MEMS remains an expensive final step. For complex devices, packaging can run as high as 80 percent of the cost. Ziptronix Inc. hopes to seal its own success with a simple, low-cost process for hermetically encapsulating entire MEMS wafers inside a foundry's clean rooms.

09/04/2002  As mask data sets become more complex and data-intensive, maskmakers face the challenge of how to manage large amounts of data that must be moved from design to mask.

09/04/2002  Sept. 4, 2002 - Singapore - Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has penned a joint technology agreement with IMEC, a European independent R&D center for microelectronics, that will result in Chartered offering 0.18-micron silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS manufacturing capabilities by 2H03.

09/02/2002  Sept. 2, 2002 - Singapore - Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., the world's third largest chip foundry, announced an 8-for-10 rights issue today to raise US$633 million.

09/01/2002  SAN JOSE, CALIF. In spite of continuing uncertainty in the semiconductor industry, there was a healthy level of excitement on the show floor at the back-end portion of SEMICON West in San Jose this year

09/01/2002  Evaluating new flip chip designs