11/07/2000  Puchon, South Korea--Nov. 7, 2000--Fairchild Semiconductor International has opened a wafer fab in Puchon, South Korea, to manufacture power semiconductors.

11/07/2000  East Fishkill, New York--Nov. 7, 2000--IBM Microelectronics and Scotland-based Kymata Ltd. have teamed up in a multi-year agreement to produce next-generation optical networking chips for high-speed e-business applications. As part of this agreement, IBM has acquired a minority equity stake in Kymata.

11/07/2000  Richmond, California--Nov. 7, 2000--Berkeley Process Control, Inc., a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of motion and control solutions, recently received a U.S. patent for its autocalibration technology.

11/06/2000  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina--Nov. 6, 2000--Kyma Technologies, a developer and supplier of nitride substrates, has developed a 2-inch-diameter, 50-micron-thick epitaxial gallium nitride (GaN) layer on a sapphire wafer, to be used as the core technology for a variety of applications within the semiconductor, optoelectronic, and communications industries.

11/01/2000  I can't help but be amazed by the investment community's growing interest in semiconductor packaging. I would have thought that the packaging industry as a whole significantly lacks in glamour when compared to the high-flying (and fast-crashing) dot coms, and software, biomedical and pharmaceutical companies

11/01/2000  PHOENIX - In SRC's Copper IC Design Challenge, a national technology contest for university students that encourages exploration of the possibilities of copper in leading-edge IC manufacturing

11/01/2000  New Tripoli, Pennsylvania--Nov. 1, 2000--Worldwide revenues for semiconductor processing equipment will rise 76.1% in 2000 and continue rising an additional 45.9% in 2001, according to

10/31/2000  Westlake Village, California--Oct. 31, 2000--Diodes Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of high quality discrete semiconductors, has signed a letter of intent to acquire Missouri-based Fabtech Inc. The deal includes a 5-inch wafer foundry that specializes in Schottky products, and a 16,000 sq. ft. cleanroom within a 70,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility formerly owned by AT&T.

10/30/2000  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina--Oct. 30, 2000--Ziptronix, Inc., a spin-off company of Research Triangle Institute (RTI), has raised $6.5 million in its first round of venture capital financing to launch a new technology that integrates semiconductors of many types, materials, and functions within existing semiconductor wafer fabrication processes.

10/27/2000  San Jose, California--Oct. 27, 2000--Novellus Systems, Inc., a leader in thin film deposition technology for the semiconductor industry, is acquiring Gasonics International Corp., a supplier of dry resist removal and surface preparation equipment for semiconductor manufacturers.

10/26/2000  Milpitas, California--Oct. 26, 2000--A definitive agreement has been signed by Xicor, Inc. to sell its Milpitas 6-inch wafer fab assets and inventory to Standard MEMS for approximately $12.5 million. Under a related agreement, Standard MEMS will become Xicor's fourth foundry.

10/23/2000  Egham, U.K--Oct. 23, 2000--The worldwide semiconductor intellectual property (IP) market, one of the fastest growing segments in the semiconductor industry, should reach $2.94 billion by 2004, forecasts Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group. Worldwide semiconductor IP revenue in 2000 is projected to peak at $620 million.

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.

10/09/2000  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.

09/26/2000  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 ...

09/21/2000  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).

09/07/2000  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  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.