11/08/2001  November 8, 2001 - Singapore - Chartered Semiconductor Europe, a subsidiary of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has opened an office in Stockholm, Sweden, to cover the Nordic market area.

11/08/2001  November 8, 2001 - Willow Grove, PA & Chandler, AZ - Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. and Amkor Technology have expanded the 10-year technology transfer agreement between Amkor and Flip Chip Technologies, L.L.C. (FCT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kulicke & Soffa.

11/07/2001  November 7, 2001 - Hsinchu, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. announced at a Tokyo press conference its plans for investments, a new plant, and new technology to be used, according to Asia Biz Tech.

11/07/2001  Despite those dismal fab utilization totals, there's one sector of the industry that's still running at surprisingly close to full capacity - Taiwan's DRAM makers.

11/07/2001  November 7, 2001 - San Jose, CA - Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments declined 17% during 3Q01 compared to the previous quarter, according to what Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) reported in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

11/06/2001  One of the biggest trends in wafer cleaning today is single wafer wet cleans at the critical pre-gate level. Strictly speaking, PVA brushes (scrubbers) used in post-CMP cleans can be considered a single wafer cleaning process, and some fabs use single wafer etching for backside thinning and layer removal.

11/06/2001  November 6, 2001 - San Jose, CA - Electroglas Inc. has formed a new software division, EG Soft, that is entering the market with an integrated portfolio of software products to help semiconductor manufacturers improve throughput and yield.

11/02/2001  November 2, 2001 - San Diego, CA - JMAR Technologies Inc. a provider of precision micro- and nanotechnology products, said its JMAR-SAL NanoLithography Inc. (JSAL) division, Burlington, VT, has been awarded US patent number 6,295,332, titled Method for Improving X-ray Lithography in the Sub-100nm Range to Create High Quality Semiconductor Devices.

11/02/2001  November 2, 2001 - Chandler, AZ - SpeedFam-IPEC Inc. has announced cost-cutting measures that include decreases in discretionary spending and a reduction in worldwide headcount by 20%, or approximately 160 employees, as part of its continued commitment to reducing operating costs.

11/01/2001  November 1, 2001 - San Jose, CA - Implant Center Inc. (IC) and Ion Implant Services Inc. (IIS), two providers of ion implantation services, have joined forces and have adopted a new name for the combined operation, INNOViON Corp.

11/01/2001  Belgium's independent R&D center IMEC has begun research to develop technology that will give the industry integrated wafer-level packaging on copper low-k IC interconnect, to be done in wafer processing's back end of the line (BEOL).

11/01/2001  November 1, 2001 - Taipei, Taiwan - The board of Winbond Electronics Corp. yesterday decided to revamp its business strategies and restructure to cope with the economic slowdown.

11/01/2001  Providing high density and performance for chip-to-system interconnection

11/01/2001  Die separation of thin silicon wafers and delicate III-V substrates creates challenges for traditional saw dicing

11/01/2001  According to the September 2001 update to IC Insight's (Scottsdale, AZ) McClean Report, the integrated circuit (IC) recovery of 2001 (Fig. 2) will most certainly mirror that "canoe" shape, or rolling bottom...

10/30/2001  October 30, 2001 - Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd. (TSMC), has invested T$7.7 billion in R&D of the 0.13-micron manufacturing process for 300mm chipsets in the first three quarters of 2001.

10/30/2001  October 30, 2001 - Santa Clara, CA - Applied Materials Inc. and PDF Solutions have announced a collaboration to provide comprehensive yield improvement solutions to semiconductor manufacturers. The program combines Applied Materials' inspection and methodical defect reduction technology with PDF Solutions' process-design characterization methodologies.

10/30/2001  October 30, 2001 - Austin, TX - domainLogix Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, ILS Technology, and Oceana Sensor Technologies will develop a set of security reference models to be used as a basis for research within the semiconductor manufacturing and tool supplier industries.

10/29/2001  The annual CMP Users' Group symposium (Northern California chapter of the American Vacuum Society) held recently in San Jose was rich with new technologies and industry progress. Although the CMP market projections presented by Tom Tucker of Laredo Technologies were grim - second half revenues are expected to be down 50% from 1H01 - he did highlight several technologies that will come to the fore as the industry scrambles to innovate its way out of the downturn.

10/29/2001  October 29, 2001 - Tainan, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has announced a new NT$700 billion (US$20 billion) expansion plan, which includes six new 300mm fabs in Taiwan.