10/19/2000  Boise, Idaho--Oct. 19, 2000--Micron Technology, Inc. and Kobe Steel, Ltd. recently announced that they have entered into a non-binding term sheet involving the $125 million (13.5 billion yen) purchase by Micron of all Kobe Steel's equity interest in KMT Semiconductor, Ltd.

10/18/2000  San Jose, California--Oct. 18, 2000--A final determination was issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on Oct. 16 regarding investigation of Atmel Corp.'s complaint in 1997 that several of its patents--covering certain erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM), flash memory, flash microcontroller semiconductor devices, and products containing these devices--were being infringed.

10/17/2000  Munich, Germany--Oct. 17, 2000--Infineon Technologies AG has pioneered a new silicon germanium (SiGe) bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) technology, known as B7HFc.

10/16/2000  Austin, Texas--Oct. 16, 2000--Lithographers attending a recent International SEMATECH Next-Generation Lithography (NGL) Workshop recommended that the global industry narrow the NGL options to two technologies--extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and electron projection lithography (EPL)--for commercialization.

10/13/2000  Westwood, Massachusetts--Oct. 13--A patent infringement lawsuit has been filed by ADE Corp., a supplier of wafer measurement and inspection systems to the silicon manufacturing industry, against KLA-Tencor Corp.

10/12/2000  San Jose, California--Oct. 11, 2000--The worldwide semiconductor industry should see revenue eclipse $231.6 billion in 2000, an increase of 37% over 1999 revenue, according to Dataquest Inc. analysts, a unit of Gartner Group, Inc.

10/12/2000  Mountain View, California--Oct. 10, 2000--The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is investigating claims by Rambus Inc. that Korea-based Hyundai Electronics Co. Ltd. and San Jose, California-based Hyundai Electronics America are violating Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 by importing into the U.S. certain synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) devices, modules, and products that infringe U.S. patents owned by Rambus.

10/09/2000  Greensboro, North Carolina--Oct. 9, 2000--RF Micro Devices (RFMD), a provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (ICs) for wireless communications applications, recently announced plans to develop and manufacture ICs using indium phosphate (InP)--a next generation semiconductor process technology.

09/28/2000  San Jose, California--Sept. 28, 2000--International SEMATECH, a consortium of semiconductor manufacturers, has chosen Knights Technology, a division of Electroglas, Inc., to commercially develop an advanced software tool for locating the physical origins of faults in integrated random-logic circuits.

09/26/2000  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina--Sept. 26, 2000--The Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) has chosen Dr. Farhang Shadman of the University of Arizona (UA) as this year's recipient of the Landmark Innovation Award for his semiconductor ...

09/25/2000  Itzehoe, Germany--Sept. 25, 2000--Standard MEMS, Inc. and Philips Semiconductors have announced a joint venture to build a MOS 8-inch wafer manufacturing facility for micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and integrated discrete semiconductors in Itzehoe, Germany.

09/21/2000  Geneva, Switzerland--Sept. 21, 2000--STMicroelectronics recently completed its aquisition of Silicon Valley-based Waferscale Integration, Inc., a leader in flash-based programmable system devices (PSDs).

09/18/2000  London--Sept. 19, 2000--Atmel Corp. and Siemens AG have signed a framework purchasing agreement under which Atmel will sell $1.5 billion of products to Siemens over the next four years.

09/11/2000  SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Sept. 11, 2000--Citing an increasing demand for nonvolatile memory products, Catalyst Semiconductor has announced an agreement with Oki Electric, the company's principal foundry in Japan, to increase foundry capacity.

09/07/2000  FREMONT, Calif. - Sept. 7, 2000 - Therma-Wave, Inc., a manufacturer of process control metrology systems used in the manufacture of semiconductors, today reported that orders for the first two months of the second quarter of fiscal year 2001 have already exceeded the record $61.9 million mark of the first quarter ended June 30, 2000.

09/07/2000  HILLSBORO, Oreg.--Sept. 7, 2000--TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. has purchased a wafer fab from Micron Technology in Richardson, Texas for $87 million.

09/06/2000  Santa Ana, Calif. -- Sept. 6, 2000 -- Microsemi Corp., a supplier of power management and radio frequency integrated circuits, today announced that it has begun an expansion of its Linfinity Microelectronics IC fabrication facility in Garden Grove, Calif.

09/01/2000  MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel and SANTA CLARA, Calif.--September 1, 2000--Alliance Semiconductor has agreed to invest $75 million in Tower Semiconductor's newest wafer fab to be constructed later this year.

09/01/2000  With the trend toward smaller packages and tighter tolerances, the role of total package inspection is becoming more vital to the assurance of final product quality. At the same time, the drive for cost reduction and flexibility dictates that all inspection requirements be satisfied by a single, integrated, high-throughput inspection platform.

09/01/2000  SAN JOSE, Calif.--September 1, 2000--Atmel is purchasing $40 million in 4090? wafer probers from Electroglas Inc., continuing a long relationship, the companies said in a prepared statement.