08/31/2000  TOKYO -- August 31, 2000 -- Japan's electronics giant Sony Corp. said it will spend $943 million over the next five years building its first 300-mm wafer fabrication facility.

08/29/2000  REHOVOTH, Israel?Aug. 29, 2000?In an effort to improve its wafer manufacturing efficiency, Motorola has placed multiple orders for Nova Measuring Instrument's NovaScan Integrated Thickness Monitoring (ITM) systems.

08/25/2000  SINGAPORE--Aug. 24, 2000--Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Ricoh Company, Ltd. have announced an extension of their current manufacturing relationship.

08/25/2000  LONDONDERRY, N.H.--Aug. 25, 2000--SmartLynx Inc. announced new integration solutions that the company said provide bi-directional, intelligent data transfer for EDA tools.

08/24/2000  PAOLI, Penn.--Aug. 24, 2000--Ametek, Inc. has developed an oxygen analyzer for rapid thermal processing silicon wafer fabrication systems.

08/23/2000  MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--Aug. 23, 2000--FSI International announced that Anadigics Inc. has placed an order for an FSI microlithography system for use used to manufacture 6-inch GaAs wafers.

08/23/2000  STUTTGART, Germany and SINGAPORE--Aug. 23, 2000--A three-year manufacturing agreement potentially worth $250 million has been signed by Dialog Semiconductor and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing.

08/22/2000  TAINAN, Taiwan--Aug. 22, 2000--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), said they have selected Interwoven TeamSite/BroadVision Edition as their Web content management solution. In addition, the chip giant has ordered 300-mm high- and medium-current implanters from Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates.

08/22/2000  MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel--Aug. 22, 2000--Pending government approval, Tower Semiconductor Ltd. will embark on the construction of a new wafer fabrication plant valued at over $200 million.

08/21/2000  BEIJING, China and AUSTIN, Texas--Aug. 21, 2000--After months of waiting and a premature announcement in July, Motorola has finally received approval for its planned 16B RMB (US$1.9 billion) investment in new semiconductor manufacturing and telecommunications facilities.

08/21/2000  CUPERTINO, Calif.--Aug. 21, 2000--While semiconductor sales post record high numbers and bookings of semiconductor manufacturing equipment are at robust levels, a slowdown could be right around the corner, warns Advanced Forecasting, Inc. (AFI), a research firm for the semiconductor and related industries.

08/18/2000  GENEVA, Switzerland--Aug. 18, 2000--STMicroelectronics announced today a series of 10 RF power transistors targeted at wireless base station and mobile radio applications.

08/18/2000  AUSTIN, Texas--Aug. 18, 2000--Research consortium International SEMATECH today announced the launch of a Metrology/Yield Management Tool Initiative to develop and evaluate new measurement technologies for advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes.

08/17/2000  SANTA ANNA, Calif.--Aug. 17, 2000--Designers of handheld devices such as power tools may benefit from a new low-current, 500-V MOSFET from Microsemi Corp. that allows users to boost the voltage of their designs within the smallest possible board space.

08/17/2000  TOKYO, Japan--Aug. 17, 2000--Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. and ST Assembly Test Services announced they have jointly developed a CMOS RF device with Bluetooth specifications.

08/17/2000  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Aug. 17, 2000-Synopsys Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. announced an agreement to jointly develop test chips and silicon-calibrated technology files.

08/16/2000  JUPITER, Fla.--Aug. 16, 2000--Photronics, a maker of photomasks, is the new majority owner of Precision Semiconductor Mask Corp.

08/15/2000  AUSTIN, Texas--Aug. 15, 2000--Photronics Inc. has opened its Advanced Reticle Characterization Center (ARCC) designed to meet the growing demand from semiconductor manufacturers and equipment suppliers working on technologies at and below the 0.13 ?m technology node.

08/15/2000  OTTAWA, Canada--Aug. 15, 2000--MOSAID Technologies Inc. has taken a 19.9% equity stake in ATMOS Corp., broadening a relationship the two companies first established in December.

08/11/2000  SAN DIEGO, Calif.--Aug. 10, 2000--JMAR Technologies has introduced its new line of FIFO memory devices dubbed VeloSync designed to improve speed and power efficiency.