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February 8, 2010


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Bringing the Best Together
Ablestik and Emerson & Cuming join Henkel
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10 Reasons to be Optimistic about the IC Industry
Are you uncertain about the 2010 IC industry recovery? It may help to consider these actual data points and current expectations that offer ...
IC Insights

cyberTECHNOLOGIES extends lead in surface metrology for PV applications
Track JobExpanding capabilities of Vantage & CT SERIES products introducing new high-resolution sensor with unmatched small spot size, optimized for the measurement of textured silicon surfaces and devices coated with anti-reflective films. Learn more…
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Viewpoint 2010
 
Bob Sykes, CTO, XYZTEC
imageAlthough the market was slow in 2009, XYZTEC took the initiative to invest in long term projects, one of them being new products to address green technology, like solar, and semiconductor trends such as 3D and ever reducing geometry! In addition, we experienced a 30% increase in personnel; not common during a recession. These efforts provide the ...
 
Industry News  
Where The Money Is
System-Level Design sat down to discuss where the value has shifted in the supply chain with Tom Quan, director at TSMC; Kalar Rajendiran, senior ...
Chip Design Magazine
Korea Targets the Recovery and Beyond
Optimism about the short and long term prospects for the semiconductor industry was heard throughout SEMICON Korea, held on February 3-5 in ...
Semi
Kulicke & Soffa Q1 results top Street, shares soar
Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc posted quarterly results that blew past analyst expectations, riding on the recovery in the semiconductor ...
Reuters
Applied Korea at Center of IP Theft Case
South Korean prosecutors said Applied Materials Korea staff "extensively" gathered secret Samsung memory chip production technology and passed ...
Semiconductor International
ASE sees profit growth in 2009; beats 4Q09 guidance
Chip packaging and testing house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has reported a 9.5% profit growth but a 9.2% revenue drop compared to ...
Digitimes
Semiconductor companies predict higher revenue
Business in the semiconductor industry is improving, highlighted by a string of upbeat earnings forecasts from several large chip makers over ...
Arizona Republic
Chip spies arrested in South Korea
Just what we need in the boring old chip industry, a John LeCarre style tale of corporate espionage, and intrigue. South Korean prosecutors ...
TG Daily
Leap In Quantum Computing
A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the ...
Red Orbit
Samsung, Hynix Differ on Chip Outlook
Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor are clashing over the outlook of the global chip market for 2010. The world's top two chip makers ...
Korea Times
TI says vision sharpened in R&D cuts
Texas Instruments Inc., a legendary font of innovation, cut its budget for research and development by almost half a billion dollars in 2009. ...
Dallas Morning News
Japan's Fujitsu says it made first 'iPad'
Apple's new tablet PC is not the first product to be called the "iPad". Japan's Fujitsu says it launched one years ago, and the name has also ...
AFP
Smartphones set to change the future
Smartphones are ushering in a new era of mobile Internet services. This type of phone has become an essential part of daily life for many ...
JoongAng Daily

Viscom's new wafer inspection system
High accuracy inspection of bare wafers & MEMS
S3088-IIViscom's new desktop system MX100IR inspects bare wafers, MEMS, wafer bonds, SOIs & Flip Chips. Wafers are transparent to the wavelength in the near infrared range generated by patented Si-Thru™ illumination. The MX100IR provides defect detection capabilities of embedded defects…
Viscom Inc.
Technology News  
Nexus One Ushering In Age Of ANC, MEMS Mics?
One great feature of the Google Nexus One is the fact that it has TWO microphones. Basically, one microphone is positioned directly on the ...
Phandroid
Startup joins UCLA tech incubator space to develop contactless electronic connections
Technology has potential to improve 'smart cards,' Internet infrastructure, entertainment electronics. UCLA has opened its on-campus ...
UC Los Angeles
MIT researchers build first germanium laser
MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can emit wavelengths of light useful for optical communications. ...
Science Centric
Electrons on the brink: Fractal patterns may be key to semi magnetism
Achievement of this goal necessitates a detailed understanding of what happens at the exact transition point when a semiconductor changes ...
Nanotechnology News

PacTech's SB2-Jet
Laser Solder Jetting System
PacTech's SB2Sequential high speed soldering using laser-reflow with high substrate design and solder ball size flexibility. Fluxless, contactless at low thermal stress—ideal for flip-chip, MEMS, 3D-packaging and CSP/BGA's re-balling. Learn more…
PacTech

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Imec and Holst Centre present at Int'l Solid State Circuit Conference
At the International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre present their newest breakthroughs in ultra-low power design for ...
Imec and Holst Centre
New generation of FISCHERSCOPEŽ X-RAY: XDLM and XDAL series
The newest generation of the proven FISCHERSCOPEŽ XDAL and XDLM xray
spectrometers is now available. The development process focused on the...

Fischer Technology, Inc.
Carsem Receives Microsemi Corp's Best Supplier of the Year Award
Carsem announced it has received Microsemi Corporation's Best Supplier of The Year Award for 2009 for assembly and test services that were ...
Carsem
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