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Innovative Purion Platform Delivers Industry Leading Purity, Precision and Productivity for the 16nm Era and Beyond BEVERLY, Mass., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACLS), a leading supplier of enabling ion implantation solutions for the semiconductor industry, announced today that it has shipped the new Purion M medium current implanter, to a major semiconductor manufacturer located in Asia. The Purion M is part of the Company's expanding family of...

BETHESDA, Md., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NARTech today announced that it has been appraised at the CMMI Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 4. With this significant achievement, NARTech joins an elite group of only six (6) other US Companies who have reached this notable milestone, according to the CMMI Institute's Published Appraisal Results. A CMMI Level 4 appraisal places NARTech among the Top 6.4% of companies in the USA and among the Top 9.2% CMMI...

CHANTILLY, Va., Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The CMMI Institute, a subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University's Carnegie Innovations, has approved the re-appraisal of TASC at maturity Level 5 of its Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). The CMMI rating is internationally recognized as the defining industry standard for software and systems development and management. Maturity Level 5 is the highest level in the CMMI rating system. (Logo:...

Sample precise thickness, relative shape and local variations of a number of substrate wafers using our unique new metrology technique and equipment -- at no cost! Canton, Massachusetts (PRWEB) January 14, 2013 Evergreen Enhancement – http://www.evergreenenhancement.com – developer and manufacturer of leading-edge metrology systems, is offering semiconductor makers an opportunity to sample a variety of characteristics of their products. According to Bill Kerr, Evergreen...

GARLAND, Texas, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has renewed its Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI(®)) Level 3 certification rating for Development at the company's Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS) business. This CMMI Level 3 certification enables IIS to further drive customer success across all sites through efficient program execution built on integrated common processes. "This is a huge achievement that demonstrates our continued...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that its IS&GS-Defense product line achieved the highest possible rating for maturity of its engineering and management processes. The Maturity Level 5 rating was established after a rigorous, third-party Capability Maturity Model(®) Integration (CMMI(®)) for Development, Version 1.3 evaluation of Lockheed Martin IS&GS-Defense's businesses processes, ensuring they are repeatable,...

Cascades Technologies, inc. (CTi) completed their successful appraisal at Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI-DEV Version 1.3 Maturity Level 3. The CMMI-DEV model, developed by the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. CMMI is a process framework that assists organizations to establish and improve their software engineering and project management processes. Herndon, VA (PRWEB) July 14, 2012 Cascades Technologies, inc. (CTi), a leader in IT Governance,...

Among Elite 5% of CMMI-Compliant Organizations FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Keymind, a division of Axiom Resource Management, announces that it has been successfully appraised at the highest level, Maturity Level 5 version 1.3, of Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development© (CMMI-DEV). Keymind is one of the first U.S. small businesses to achieve this recognition and ranks within the top 5% of global organizations reporting CMMI 5 results....

People aren’t very good at media multitasking - like reading a book while watching TV - but do it anyway because it makes them feel good, a new study suggests. The findings provide clues as to why multitasking is so popular, even though many studies show it is not productive. Researchers had college students record all of their media use and other activities for 28 days, including why they used various media sources and what they got out of it. The findings showed that multitasking...

Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering develop a system that makes multithreaded programs run more stably and efficiently Anyone who uses multithreaded computer programs -- and that's all of us, as these are the programs that power nearly all software applications including Office, Windows, MacOS, and Google Chrome Browser, and web services like Google Search, Microsoft Bing, and iCloud, -- knows well the frustration of computer crashes, bugs, and other aggravating problems. The most...