08/09/2001  August 9, 2001 - Mountain View, CA - In the past year, PC semiconductor suppliers have experienced a complete reversal of fortune.

08/09/2001  August 9, 2001 - San Diego, CA - JMAR Technologies Inc. has completed the purchase of the outstanding equity of Vermont-based Semiconductor Advanced Lithography Inc. (SAL), a provider of X-ray lithography (XRL) stepper systems.

08/09/2001  August 9, 2001 - Brookfield, CT - Photronics Inc. is breaking ground for a 13,000-square-foot addition to its existing 40,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Brookfield, Connecticut.

08/09/2001  Murmurs of when semiconductor manufacturing demand will pick up can be heard throughout the industry. As semiconductor equipment manufacturers continue to cut capital spending and excess capacity remains a top concern, the industry's banking on the demand half of the supply and demand cycle to accelerate - and soon.

08/08/2001  August 8, 2001 - Irvine, CA - Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC), with its parent company Toshiba Corp. is set to realign its memory production strategy.

08/08/2001  As the top three worldwide chipmakers hung in to keep their coveted leading positions in revenues, the rest of the pack saw significant changes during 1H01, according to recent statistics released by IC Insights, Scottsdale, AZ.

08/07/2001 
Researchers at Motorola, IBM and PNNL are circling in on the secrets to spintronics. It's a small tech approach that is expected to eliminate the need to boot up mobile phones, computers and other electronic devices while making make them faster and more powerful.

08/06/2001 
A new small tech business eliminates the need for costly photomasks in making many bioMEMS and sensor devices. One potential client says the "superior process" makes it easier to prototype new components because making modifications is no longer a cumbersome process.

08/02/2001  Wafer Level CSP and Flip Chip Packaging
The international workshop will be held in Stone Mountain, Georgia, on March 1-3, 2002. Abstracts are due November 19.

08/01/2001  A key element for successful Chip scale and ball grid array packaging

08/01/2001  In late May, engineers, researchers, analysts and, yes, even editors, descended upon Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., for the 51st Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC)

08/01/2001  A competitive contamination control journal recently carried the following headline: "Litigation Creates $15 Billion Fabric Filter Market." This pronouncement headed a short note that predicts explosive growth in the market for this type of filter as a result of settlements being reached between industry and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

07/26/2001  July 26, 2001 -- SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Entegris, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all shares of Atcor Corporation for an undisclosed cash payment. Atcor Corporation is the supplier of precision cleaning systems and cleaning services providing a variety of cleaning/drying technologies to the world's largest semiconductor and hard disk drive manufacturers.

07/24/2001  July 24. 2001 -- AMSTERDAM -- Faced with lower-than expected second quarter results thanks in part to an industry downturn, Royal Philips Electronics plans to cut as many as 4,000 semiconductor jobs.

07/24/2001  Semi Dice Celebrates 25 Years of Service
LOS ALAMITOS, CALIF.
For the past 25 years, Semi Dice Inc. has been supplying bare die components to the hybrid, MCM and COB communities. In a recent interview with Advanced Packaging magazine, Mitch Myers, COO of Semi Dice, reflected on the past 25 years in the industry.

07/23/2001  July 23, 2001 -- SINGAPORE -- UMCi Pte. Ltd. is moving ahead with plans to construct a 300mm fab project in Singapore that will feature more than 430,000 square feet of cleanroom space.

07/19/2001  And the Award Goes To...
At SEMICON West this year, we revealed the winners of The 2001 Advanced Packaging Awards program. Click here to see which products and companies won.

07/16/2001  Dainippon Screen will start selling a laser plotter for printed circuit boards in August that will reduce running costs to 1/15 current levels.

07/12/2001 

07/11/2001  Between the implosion of the dot-coms and the plunge in the semiconductor market, it's hard to imagine a worse business these days than a semiconductor equipment dot-com.