04/24/2001  April 24, 2001 - Washington, D.C. - The US Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has apparently completed its 45-day investigation on the proposed sale of the Silicon Valley Group Inc. to Netherlands-based ASM Lithography Holding N.V.

04/23/2001  April 23, 2001 -- Taipei -- A decline in demand for wafers has forced Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to postpone the completion of two 12-inch wafer plants that had been planned for southern Taiwan.

04/23/2001  April 23, 2001 - Dresden, Germany - Infineon Technologies said it is ready to equip the 300mm production module for memory products that the firm started building in cooperation with Motorola in May 2000.

04/23/2001  April 23, 2001 - San Jose,CA - Numerical Technologies Inc. and Intel Corp. have signed multi-year, multi-million-dollar technology cross-licensing agreement for advanced photolithography solutions used in the production of high-end semiconductors.

04/20/2001  April 20, 2001 - Hsinchu, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is considering delaying plans to build two 300mm fabs in southern Taiwan until the economy shows signs of improvement.

04/19/2001  April 19, 2001 - Hsinchu, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has announced what it claims are two new foundry firsts for advanced technology development.

04/18/2001  April 18, 2001 -- HSINCHU, Taiwan -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has completed a 300 mm pilot for 0.13-micron, all copper process of a 4 megabyte SRAM test vehicle.

04/18/2001  April 18, 2001 - Round Rock, TX & Munich, Germany - DuPont Photomasks, Inc. and Infineon Technologies have agreed to jointly develop advanced photomask technology to support the production of leading edge memory and logic semiconductor devices.

04/13/2001  April 13, 2001 - San Jose, CA - KLA-Tencor Corp. has signed an agreement to purchase Phase Metrics, a top supplier of inspection/certification technologies to the data storage industry.

04/13/2001  April 13, 2001 -- More companies are resorting to job cuts, citing a downturn in the semiconductor market.

04/12/2001  April 12, 2001 -- TOKYO -- Sony Corp. has achieved zero emissions for waste from six of its chip making plants.

04/12/2001  April 12, 2001 - Beverly, MA - Axcelis Technologies has introduced a next-generation control system that, according to the company, allows greater productivity and throughput for new and installed ion implanters.

04/11/2001  April 11, 2001 - Austin, TX - Motorola has unveiled an advanced 0.13-micron CMOS process platform technology. HiPerMOS7, or HiP7, has been designed to enable Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) to build system-on-a-chip solutions for applications from low -ower wireless to high-performance network and computer products. According to the company, HiP7 is its most dense, most modular, and lowest power system-on-chip platform process.

04/11/2001  April 11, 2001 - Taipei - United Microelectronics Corp. has warned Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing that it may face legal action if it accepts orders from Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SIS).

04/09/2001  April 9, 2001 - San Jose, CA - The Fabless Semiconductor Association has released the results of its 2001 Wafer and Packaging Demand Survey in which 111 fabless companies participated.

04/09/2001  April 9, 2001 -- AUSTIN, TX -- A new initiative aimed at creating more opportunities for those looking to get into the high tech field has been launched by the Austin Area Semiconductor Executive Council.

04/06/2001  April 6, 2001 - Tokyo, Japan - Hitachi Ltd. has unveiled a device that reportedly could extend the useful lives of today's steppers into tomorrow's future generations of microprocessors.

04/06/2001  April 6, 2001 - El Segundo, CA - International Rectifier Corp. has unveiled its new synchronous buck controller IC for on-board DC-DC converter applications.

04/01/2001  Addressing industrial issues is key

03/26/2001  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has successfully ramped 0.15-micron processes to full production status.