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Tronics invests in a joint venture in China to strengthen its commercial activities in the region and provide local support to its customers. Grenoble, France (PRWEB) May 21, 2012 Almost ten years back, Tronics identified China as a potential high growth opportunity for MEMS. At that time, the Chinese MEMS market was in its infancy and there were few customers with good technical competencies in MEMS technologies. Meanwhile the Chinese MEMS community has grown fast and has developed...

JARFALLA, Sweden, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Silex Microsystems, the world's largest pure-play MEMS foundry, today announced that it has been awarded a nearly 3 million Swedish Kronor research grant from VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, to develop cutting-edge ferromagnetic materials for use in MEMS devices powering next-generation smartphone applications. Demonstrating the company's proven MEMS technology development expertise and resources,...

JARFALLA, Sweden, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second consecutive year, Silex Microsystems today announced that Yole Developpement (Yole) has ranked Silex as the world's largest pure-play MEMS foundry in their Annual Top 30 MEMS Report. Silex has been able to maintain this leadership position by continually leveraging its deep MEMS expertise, innovative technologies and proven, high-volume production capabilities that enable customers to rapidly, cost-effectively and...

GENEVA, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. First quarter net revenues decreased 8% to $2.02 billion on a sequential basis, while gross margin was 29.6%, absorbing anticipated unsaturation charges related to fab loading and a one-time unexpected charge resulting from an arbitration award. President and CEO Carlo Bozotti commented, "ST's wholly-owned businesses in the first...

JARFALLA, Sweden, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Silex Microsystems, the world's largest pure-play MEMS foundry, today announced the appointment of Fredrik Jonsson to its Board of Directors. Mr. Jonsson is CEO of Beijer Electronics, a leading supplier of industrial automation and data communications solutions based in Malmo, Sweden. Mr. Jonsson joins the existing board of Silex, bringing the total number of Board members to 11. "We are very pleased to have Fredrik join the Silex...

Availability of high volume capacity from TSMC and GLOBALFOUNDRIES enables InvenSense to satisfy fast growing demand for motion interface in consumer devices. Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) March 27, 2012 InvenSense, Inc., (NYSE: INVN), the leading provider of MotionTracking™ devices for consumer electronics, today announced dual-source capability for its CMOS-MEMS supply from the two leading semiconductor foundries in the world. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s...

ST. FLORIAN, Austria, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that Himax Technologies, Inc., a leading producer of CMOS image sensors, power management devices and semiconductor devices and components used in flat panel displays, has placed a repeat order for an IQ Aligner UV nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) system from EVG. The IQ...

It turns out you can be too thin—especially if you're a nanoscale battery. Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Maryland, College Park, and Sandia National Laboratories built a series of nanowire batteries to demonstrate that the thickness of the electrolyte layer can dramatically affect the performance of the battery, effectively setting a lower limit to the size of the tiny power sources. The results are important because battery...

ST. FLORIAN, Austria and TOKYO, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., the world's largest supplier of semiconductor materials, has joined EVG's open platform for temporary bonding/debonding (TB/DB) materials. Shin-Etsu's advanced adhesives will be qualified with EVG's EZR® (Edge Zone Release) and...

TOKYO, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that it has shipped an EVG301 semi-automated single-wafer cleaning system to Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). The EVG301 has already been installed at Tokyo Tech's Arai-Nishiyama Lab, and is being used in the research and development of advanced optical communication ICs. Specifically,...