12/01/2001  Monitoring an ultra-pure water (UPW) system requires more than just watching meters, tabulating numbers and looking at charts.

11/29/2001  Nov. 29, 2001 - Geneva, Switzerland - STMicroelectronics' advanced CMOS development teams headed by Thomas Skotnicki at its Central Research & Development facility in Crolles, France, have received two awards granted by the semiconductor and solid-state physics community: the Paul Rappaport Award for the best IEEE paper in 2000 and also the Best Paper award for the ESSDERC 2000 conference, held in Cork, Ireland, in September 2000.

11/29/2001  Nov. 29, 2001 - San Jose, CA - The 2001 edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) calls for more aggressive scaling than previously planned.

11/28/2001  What can the semiconductor industry learn from the petrochemical folks? A lot, when it comes to the evolution of advanced process control (APC). In the early days of APC in the petrochem industry, process and instrumentation technologies were considered totally unrelated issues by operating companies.

11/28/2001  November 28, 2001 -- SAN JOSE, CA -- KLA-Tencor Corp. recently announced that Texas Instruments (TI) has placed a follow-on order for KLA-Tencor's 2350 ultraviolet (UV) inspection system. This order is a result of the critical role the 2350 system is playing in the rapid ramp of TI's first 300 mm production line, located in Dallas, Texas.

11/28/2001  Nov. 28, 2001 - San Jose, CA - The US District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed all but two of the more than 400 patent claims brought by Rambus against Hynix Semiconductor Inc., finding that the Korean company's SDR and DDR DRAM devices do not infringe Rambus' patents.

11/28/2001  Nov. 28, 2001 - Austin, TX, and Singapore - Cirrus Logic Inc., a supplier of high-performance analog and DSP chip solutions for consumer entertainment electronics, and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing have signed a multi-year manufacturing agreement.

11/26/2001  With the goal of aiding optical communications start-ups, Applied Materials Ventures I was created by its equipment leviathan namesake to provide funding, know-how, and experience to up-and-coming component and subsystem manufacturers.

11/26/2001  Nov. 26, 2001 - Santa Clara, CA - Applied Materials has acquired the assets of Schlumberger's electron-beam wafer inspection business for an undisclosed cash amount.

11/23/2001  Nov. 23, 2001 - Seoul, Korea -- Hynix Semiconductor's CEO today denied that there had been any discussion of merging with US-based Micron Technology, one of the world's largest chipmakers.

11/21/2001  Nov. 21, 2001 - Veldhoven, Netherlands - ASM Lithography NV (ASML) said it will not be able to sell its Tinsley Laboratories unit -- acquired when the Dutch company bought Silicon Valley Group this spring -- by a Nov. 22 target date set by US government officials.

11/21/2001  November 21, 2001 - Fremont, CA - Exar Corp. has reported that its bipolar wafer supplier has decided to discontinue its domestic wafer foundry. According to the company, the wafer foundry supports Exar's bipolar, custom, and standard products.

11/20/2001  Nov. 20, 2001 - Munich, Germany and Tokyo, Japan - Infineon and Toshiba have failed to reach a deal in terms of establishing a joint venture.

11/19/2001  What would happen if equipment suppliers got together and decided that they would all charge cancellation fees when customers cancel orders - and hold fast to collection?

11/19/2001  Nov. 19, 2001 - San Diego, CA - JMAR Technologies, a provider of precision micro- and nanotechnology products, announced that its JMAR/JSAL NanoLithography Inc. (JSAL) division, Burlington, VT, has received a $1.2 million contract from a major New England-based aerospace firm to provide a continuing range of X-ray lithography (XRL) support services funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

11/16/2001  Nov. 16, 2001 - Shanghai, China - Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) has successfully secured more than $1 billion of capital through the sale of Series A Preferred Shares earlier this fall.

11/16/2001  November 16, 2001 - Midland, MI - International SEMATECH will supply process wafers to the SiLKnet Alliance, an industrywide collaboration of materials and equipment suppliers working toward integrated low-k process development.

11/15/2001  Nov. 15, 2001 -- Technology stocks fell this morning with news late yesterday of an earnings plunge from industry giant Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA. The NASDAQ dropped 9.08 points at the opening, the Dow Jones was down 3.95 points.

11/15/2001  November 15, 2001 - Santa Clara, CA - Applied Materials, a provider of epitaxial (epi) deposition technology to the semiconductor industry, has installed its Epi Centura systems at Analog Devices' fabs in MA, and CA, where they are being used for next-generation bipolar device production using silicon (Si) and silicon germanium (SiGe) technologies.

11/14/2001  November 14, 2001 -- NOGALES, AZ -- Alpha Pro Tech, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of disposable protective apparel for the medical, dental, industrial safety, cleanroom and food service markets, announced 6.9 percent lower sales for the three months ended September 30.