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Early results using novel materials and processes achieves milestone toward low-power tunnel transistor electronics Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, international semiconductor consortium SEMATECH and Texas State University have demonstrated that use of new methods and materials for building integrated circuits can reduce power—extending battery life to 10 times longer for mobile applications compared to conventional transistors. The key to the breakthrough is a...

2013 Editorial Focus to Highlight 450mm Technology Story San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 23, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – January 23, 2013 – Mazik Media, a provider of next-generation publishing solutions, including long-time semiconductor industry staple, Future Fab International, announced today a special collaborative agreement with the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany and the Global 450 Wafer Consortium (G450C), headquartered in New...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SEMICON West -- EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that its GEMINI(®) Automated Wafer Bonding System has become the first product to pass a systematic, rigorous Equipment Maturity Assessment (EMA) implemented within SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect program and ISMI's EMA team. The assessments of several critical 3D tools, announced...

ATLANTA, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Qcept Technologies Inc. today announced that it is participating at several key nanotechnology conferences this calendar quarter to educate the semiconductor industry on the growing impact of non-visual defects (NVDs) on device yields and overall profitability. Semiconductor manufacturers and equipment suppliers are increasingly turning to Qcept and its ChemetriQ® NVD inspection solutions to help solve their NVD yield challenges, as evidenced...

Propose new industry-government group to help maintain quality of healthcare while restraining costs Medical device conference led by academic, industry and private sector leaders committed to a national strategy WASHINGTON, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders from industry, academia and the public and private sectors have called for the creation of a public-private coalition as part of a roadmap for the biomedical sector and to retain the United States' lead in medical device...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The eBeam Initiative, a forum dedicated to the education and promotion of a new design-to-manufacturing approach known as design for e-beam (DFEB), today announced that six additional companies spanning the entire semiconductor value chain have joined the Initiative to support the new DFEB mask roadmap for high-volume applications. The roadmap incorporates new innovations to e-beam mask making using DFEB in conjunction with e-beam mask writing...

ALBANY, N.Y. and ST. FLORIAN, Austria, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that SEMATECH, the global consortium of chipmakers, has selected EVG's fully automated 300-mm GEMINI(R) wafer bonder for enabling next-generation TSV and 3D interconnects. This order represents the industry's first fully automated 300-mm wafer bonder to integrate all four types of...

Entorian Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ENTN), a leading provider of advanced module and system-level products for demanding high-reliability and high-performance markets, today announced that Krishna Srinivasan has been appointed to its board of directors, effective immediately. "Krishna's prior experience as a member of Augmentix's board of directors brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that will assist us in executing on our goals and strategies," stated Wayne Lieberman, director and...

By James M. Odato, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Jul. 15--ALBANY -- IBM, with the help of state taxpayers, will pour more than $1.6 billion into expanding the company's chip manufacturing and research operations. The effort is expected to create at least 325 new jobs at the University at Albany's nanotechnology center and another 675 at a separate facility upstate, Paterson administration officials said Monday. IBM will invest $1.5 billion and the state will provide $140 million in what...

SEMATECH experts will present cutting-edge research results on advanced new materials and device structures for continued scaling of semiconductor technologies at the 2008 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits on June 17-19 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii. Researchers at SEMATECH are developing new techniques for extending CMOS logic and memory technologies, and will showcase some of their findings in three papers outlining new materials, processes and concepts and...