07/20/2000  FREMONT, Calif.--July 20, 2000--Avant! Corporation was awarded patent number 6,081,658 for their Proximity Correction System for wafer lithography.

07/17/2000  SEMICON West '00--July 14,2000--Semitool's Paragon line of electrochemical deposition tools will include Royal Phillips Electronics new integrated metal-film metrology system, say the companies.

07/11/2000  CAMPBELL, Calif.--July 11, 2000--Compaq Computer Corporation and Camstar Systems, Inc. announced the release of a computer integrated manufacturing solution for semiconductor test, assembly and packaging.

07/10/2000  SEMICON West '00--July 10, 2000--Announced today in San Francisco, Calif., Adept's new Flexible Front-End Systems for 200mm and 300mm are described as combining wafer sorting and SMIF loading into one system.

07/10/2000  SEMICON West '00--July 10, 2000--At SEMICON West, August Technology today introduced two high-speed wafer inspection systems for defects down to 0.5 ?m.

07/10/2000  SEMICON West '00--July 10, 2000--Making its debut today in San Francisco, Calif., the Spectrum E automated modular batch wafer cleaning system from Semitool Inc. is the latest version of the company's Spectrum advanced surface preparation system.

07/07/2000  SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--July 7, 2000--Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. will introduce a new dual-purpose integrated process control system for overlay registration measurement and full wafer macro defect inspection for photolithography manufacturing at the Semicon West show.

07/07/2000  PHOENIX, AZ--July 6, 2000--Completing the process three months ahead of time, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector has converted its Compound Semiconductor-1 (CS-1) Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) wafer fab facility from 4- to 6-inch wafers. The conversion triples the company's capacity.

07/05/2000  MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel--July 5, 2000--Israeli foundry company Tower Semiconductor Ltd. has announced plans to build a new 8-inch wafer fab later this year with the help of a $75 million investment from SanDisk.

06/30/2000  SAN JOSE, Calif.--June 30, 2000--In addition to building 300-mm wafer fabs in Germany and Taiwan, Infineon Technologies said today that a new stateside facility could also eventually produce 300-mm wafers.

06/27/2000  GRESHAM, OR--June 22,2000--LSI Logic will outsource ion implantation services to Implant Center to support its Gresham, Oregon wafer fab facility.

06/20/2000  LEIXLIP, Ireland--June 19, 2000--Intel Corp. announced plans today to spend $2 billion adding a new wafer fabrication facility at its manufacturing operations in Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland.

06/20/2000  SANTA CLARA, Calif.,--June 19, 2000--Applied Materials today announced a pair of tools capable of monitoring volume production processes at 0.10 ?m device sizes.

06/14/2000  SAN JOSE, Calif.--June 14, 2000--Electroglas Inc. a supplier of process management tools for the semiconductor industry, today announced the purchase by Silterra Malaysia of multiple 4090u wafer probers.

06/14/2000  SAN JOSE, Calif.--June 14, 2000--JDS Uniphase Corp. announced a definitive agreement to purchase a North Carolina facility to expand its Cronos MEMS manufacturing capacity.

06/06/2000  YOKOHAMA, Japan--June 6, 2000--MIPS Technologies and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing have completed the testing necessary to allow customers to use "drop-in" MIPS intellectual property processor cores directly through Chartered's foundries.

06/01/2000  Finding patterns and reporting their location quickly and accurately is essential in today's high-precision electronics and semiconductor manufacturing environments.

06/01/2000  JEDEC has propelled stacked chip-scale package standardization efforts in the form of a common agreement on SRAM and flash chips in a single package.

06/01/2000  Wafer-level processing provides effective solutions to demanding requirements.

05/31/2000  SAN JOSE, Calif.--May 30, 2000--1st Silicon has purchased multiple SPEED high density plasma chemical vapor deposition tools from Novellus Systems.