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	Implantable MEMS sensor gets jiggy with self-powering design 01/27/2012 Straight outta Purdue University, a miniaturized implantable medical micro electro mechanical (ME...
	Apple iPhone 4S steals smartphone show in Q4 2011; Samsung wins the year 01/27/2012 While Apple's release of the iPhone 4S in Q4 2011 "unleashed tremendous pent-up demand"...

	Top 10 LCD manufacturing trends of 2012 01/27/2012 Charles Annis, DisplaySearch, shares 10 trends in LCD manufacturing, covering LTPS, IGZO, alignme...
	imec engineers bio-compatible silicon photonics sensors 01/27/2012 Genalyte developed and produced a set of disposable silicon photonics biosensor chips with resear...

NEWS & FEATURES

TI closes semiconductor fabs in TX and Japan

01/27/2012 Texas Instruments (TI, NASDAQ:TXN) will close 2 older semiconductor manufacturing facilities in Hiji, Japan and Houston, TX over the course of the next 18 months. Production from these analog chip ...

President Obama's Intel visit: Fab 42 update, American manufacturing themes

01/27/2012

President Barack Obama visited the Intel Ocotillo campus in Chandler, AZ. The President spoke about Intel's technological innovation, and manufacturing jobs in America.

Survey reveals customers' wish list for PV inverter improvements

01/27/2012 System-level monitoring, continued adoption of string inverters for large PV installs, and improvements by Chinese suppliers are among the trends gleaned from a survey of inverter buyers & sell...

MicroOLED OLED micro-display reaches 5.4M-pixels on 0.61" panel

01/27/2012

Near-eye micro-display maker MicroOLED introduced a 5.4-million-pixel-density, 0.61"-diagonal, low-power-consumption organic light-emitting diode (OLED) microdisplay on silicon.

Keithley Instruments upgrades semiconductor test software suite

01/26/2012 Keithley Instruments Inc. upgraded the capabilities of its Automated Characterization Suite Test Environment to ACS Version 4.4. The software is used with several Keithley instrument and system con...

Soitec joins SEMATECH metrology work on SOI wafers

01/26/2012 Soitec joined SEMATECH's Front End Processes and Advanced Metrology Programs, bringing SOI wafers and other advanced engineered wafers into the group to work on new processes and technologies enabl...

Umicore consolidates germanium optics production to US

01/26/2012

Umicore will consolidate production of its germanium-based optics products in the US, citing a majority market in the country. Umicore will phase out optics production in Olen, Belgium.

BSE Group achieves milestones in semiconductor equipment financing biz

01/26/2012 Test Advantage Capital Group, a business of BSE Group, surpassed $150M in its portfolio of semiconductor manufacturing equipment under management. Boston Semi Equipment's fab equipment leasing busi...

Asian solar PV installs surging, China "blistering"

01/26/2012 Solar PV installations in the Asia-Pacific region raced ahead of expectations in 2011, paced by "blistering" growth in China and strength in Japan and India, says Solarbuzz. But one count...

Heidelberg direct-write lithography system suits MEMS prototyping

01/25/2012 Heidelberg Instruments launched the µPG 501 table-top direct-write lithography system for prototyping MEMS, integrated optics, microfluidic/lab-on-a-chip, and other devices as well as mask producti...

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