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07/29/2002  July 29--San Jose, CA--The latest development in semiconductors materials and the outlook for the materials market will be the focus of the third annual SEMI Microelectronic Materials Strategy Symposium in September.

07/29/2002  RAVE LLC CEO Barry Hopkins attended the NanoBusiness Spring 2002 conference in hopes of discovering the next generation of customers and applications for his company's photomask-repair tools - hopefully customers in the emerging field of nanotechnology, which could possibly run counter-cyclical to the chip industry's peaks and valleys.

07/29/2002 

07/25/2002  Hsinchu, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) posted weaker-than-expected quarterly profits and surprised investors by forecasting things would get worse in the July-September period.

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07/23/2002  San Diego, CA - Applied Micro Circuits Corp. reported its financial results for 1Q03, and announced a work force reduction, by which it expects to reduce headcount by approximately 275 employees, or about 25%, from the level of March 2002.

07/23/2002  July 23, 2002 - Flanders, NJ - Rudolph Technologies Inc., a provider of process control metrology systems, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held ISOA, a defect control company based in Richardson, TX.

07/23/2002  July 23, 2002 - Woodbury, NY - Veeco Instruments Inc.'s metrology group has created a technical advisory board (TAB).

07/23/2002  A nano and microtechnology facility called FIRST – an acronym for Frontiers in Research, Space and Time – opened this month at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The first concrete products to emerge will be active photonic components, according to officials at GigaTera Inc., which is involved in one of the industrial/academic partnerships meant to commercialize research at the lab.

07/22/2002  July 22, 2002 - White Plains, NY, and Boca Raton, FL - IBM and ILS Technology LLC (a Park-Ohio Holdings company), have formed a non-exclusive strategic alliance to deliver e-diagnostics solutions for the worldwide semiconductor industry.

07/22/2002 

07/19/2002  New York Gov. George Pataki delivered a big steak Thursday to support the sizzle of turning New York's Capitol District into a "Tech Valley." SEMATECH North's goal: developing technology to drastically shrink chip components to less than 100 nanometers. Nanoscale chipmaking will also be the mother of invention for production equipment that will employ small technologies such as MEMS devices and tiny sensors.

07/18/2002  San Jose, CA - The recovery in the semiconductor market will be gradual; technology innovation continues unabated; and China is expected to play an increasingly important supply and demand role. These views were expressed by senior executives who participated in a panel discussion during a manufacturing segment of SEMICON West 2002, which opened July 17 at the San Jose Convention Center.

07/18/2002  Austin, TX, and Albany, NY - Plans for a joint five-year $320 million program to accelerate the development of next generation lithography were announced by International SEMATECH (ISMT), a global consortium of semiconductor manufacturers, and the U. at Albany-SUNY (UAlbany).

07/18/2002  July 18, 2002 - Gresham, OR - Microchip Technology Inc., Chandler, AZ, has executed an agreement to acquire a semiconductor manufacturing complex in Gresham, OR, from Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. for $183.5 million in cash.

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.