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03/15/2005 -- Hynix awards contracts to Keithley and Asyst
March 15, 2005 - Hynix Semiconductor, a Korean DRAM producer, has awarded contracts to Keithley Instruments Inc. for a multiple-system order for its S680 DC/RF parametric test systems and to Asyst Technologies Inc. for its Spartan integrated sorter. -
03/14/2005 -- Roll-to-roll presents flat-panel display sector with new manufacturing option
By J. Robert Lineback For decades, the $70 billion flat-panel display (FPD) industry has hitched itself to wafer fab technologies, leveraging semiconductor processes and related tool sets to build bigger and better liquid-crystal displays and other FPDs. In the next 10 years, however, new technologies promise to change significantly, creating a divergence between FPD production lines and IC wafer fabs. -
03/14/2005 -- Genus shareholders approve acquisition by merger with AIXTRON
March 14, 2005 - Genus Inc. announced today that the merger with AIXTRON AG, a provider of equipment for compound semiconductor epitaxy, has been completed pursuant to the laws of the state of California. The shareholders of Genus, at a special meeting held on March 10, approved the merger with a majority of approximately 61% of the Genus outstanding shares entitled to vote at the meeting. Of the shareholders who voted, 94% were in favor of the transaction. -
03/11/2005 -- SMIC prepping Japanese ties after US equipment loan brushoff
March 11, 2005 - With a requested loan to purchase US chipmaking equipment in limbo, China's Semicondutor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) reportedly is preparing Plan B: turning to Japanese suppliers instead. -
03/11/2005 -- SEMI reports $37.1B in 2004 global semi equipment sales
March 11, 2005 -- Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $37.08 billion in 2004, representing a year-over-year increase of 67.1%, said SEMI in its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (SEMS) Report. -
03/11/2005 -- SEAJ: Chip gear demand slumps in January
March 11, 2005 - The market for Japanese semiconductor manufacturing equipment continued its decline along with the rest of the industry, as evidenced by another significant dropoff in January. -
03/11/2005 -- SEMI: 2004 equipment sales raced to #2 all-time
March 11, 2005 - The worldwide market for semiconductor manufacturing equipment expanded by nearly two-thirds in 2004, its second-highest performance ever behind the historic year 2000, according to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). -
03/09/2005 -- New orders: FSI, DALSA
March 9, 2005 - Two new orders were announced today. FSI International Inc. has received a repeat order for its ZETA Spray Cleaning System from an Asian foundry customer, and DALSA Corp. has received a $1.2 million contract to develop custom CCD cameras for a leading supplier of semiconductor inspection equipment. -
03/02/2005 -- New Japanese chip detects disease in 30 min from one drop of blood
March 2, 2005 - Toray Industries, a Japanese manufacturer of synthetic fibers, has developed a plastic chip half the size of a business card which it said could detect a number of diseases, including cancer, within 30 minutes, according to the Agence France-Presse. The company plans to market the chip in Japan within two years. -
03/01/2005 -- NIST unveils atom-based standards for measuring chip features under 50nm
March 1, 2005 - Device features on as small as 40nm wide can now be measured reliably thanks to new test structures developed by a team of physicists, engineers, and statisticians at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), SEMATECH, and other collaborators. The test structures are replicated on reference materials that will allow better calibration of tools that monitor the manufacturing of microprocessors and similar integrated circuits.
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