News Articles http://www.semiconductoronline.com/ 11/19/2008 10:50:00 AM Researchers from IBM and Purdue University have discovered that tiny structures called silicon nanowires might be ideal for manufacturing in future computers and consumer electronics because they form the same way every time. http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Researchers-Find-Silicon-Nanowires-May-Be-Ide-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/19/2008 10:50:00 AM TriQuint Semiconductor, a leading RF product manufacturer and foundry services provider, today announced the availability of a revolutionary new high power discrete RF transistor family for broadband applications including radar, signal jammers and wireless communications http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/TriQuint-Unveils-PowerBand-Revolutionary-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/18/2008 5:13:45 AM Hodogaya Chemical Co., LTD, long experienced specialist and market leader in charge transport materials, and Novaled AG, leader in power efficient and long living Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) have agreed to offer hole transport materials for Novaled PIN OLED structures http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Hodogaya-Promotes-Its-Transport-Materials-0002?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/18/2008 5:07:59 AM A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's top dedicated semiconductor foundries, have successfully optimized a range of fine-pitch packaging technologies for copper metallization and low-k dielectric silicon processes at 65 nanometer (nm) and below http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Singapores-Institute-Of-Microelectronics-And-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/18/2008 4:47:14 AM Tegal Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of integrated circuits, MEMS, and nanotechnology devices, announced today that the Company received an order for a Tegal 4200SE Advanced Multichamber ICP plasma etching system for Deep Reactive Ion Etching applications in Power Device and MEMS Sensor fabrication http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Tegal-Receives-Order-For-Deep-Silicon-Etch-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/18/2008 3:22:19 AM Advantest Corporation, the world's leading supplier of semiconductor test equipment, recently announced its new memory tester, the T5782 http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Advantest-Introduces-266MHz-T5782-Memory-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/14/2008 4:20:00 AM The US Department of Energy has awarded GeneSiC Semiconductor two separate grants totaling $1.5M for the development of high-voltage silicon carbide (SiC) devices that will serve as key enablers for wind- and solar-power integration with the nation's electricity grid http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Renewable-Energy-Thrust-Nets-GeneSiC-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/12/2008 5:36:00 AM Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) recently announced the availability of 65nm RF CMOS manufacturing services with the introduction of an advanced Process Design Kit (PDK) to enable first-pass silicon success http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Fujitsu-Microelectronics-Provides-Advanced-65-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/12/2008 5:27:00 AM SUSS MicroTec Test Systems, the premier supplier of wafer-level test solutions for semiconductor devices, today announced the iVista LC High-Resolution Digital Microscope http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/SUSS-MicroTec-Introduces-The-iVista-LC-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/11/2008 6:27:55 AM Tokyo Electron, Ltd. (TEL) today unveiled the company's new 300mm Dicing Frame Prober, the WDF 12DP. Designed to address the increasing demand for probing of ultra thin and diced wafers, the system can also be used as a standard wafer prober http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Tokyo-Electron-TEL-Introduces-A-Dual-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/11/2008 5:43:12 AM Aviza Technology, Inc., a supplier of advanced semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets, today announced the introduction of StratIon fxP, the world's first 300-mm ready Ion Beam Deposition system http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Aviza-Technology-Introduces-StratIon-fxP-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/11/2008 5:34:57 AM FormFactor, Inc. recently introduced DC-Boost, an advanced TRE test technology to increase probe test capacity. The new wafer probe card capability enables more efficient use of tester channels on test equipment to double the number of devices that can be tested simultaneously http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/FormFactor-Doubles-The-DRAM-Test-Capacity-Of-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/11/2008 4:13:00 AM Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced an enhancement to the microcontroller (MCU) architecture supporting Mid-range 8-bit PIC12 and PIC16 MCUs http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Microchip-Technology-Enhances-Mid-Range-8-Bit-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/11/2008 4:01:59 AM Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, a leading supplier of high-performance RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs, today announced a breakthrough in the highly sought-after solution to mobile antenna tuning http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Peregrine-Semiconductor-Invents-DuNE-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/11/2008 3:10:44 AM Qspeed Semiconductor announces the full production release of its first common cathode product in an industry standard TO-220 package. The LQA20T300C, comprised of two 10-amp, 300-volt diodes in a common cathode configuration, is the latest addition to Qspeed's portfolio of high performance power semiconductors http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Qspeed-Introduces-High-Performance-Common-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/11/2008 3:01:47 AM ARM recently announced the industry's first Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) physical IP library including standard cell, memory and I/O libraries for IBM's fully enabled 45nm SOI foundry http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/ARM-Announces-Industrys-First-Silicon-On-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/10/2008 6:12:00 AM Graphene is a perfect example of the wonders of nanotechnology, in which common substances are scaled down to an atomic level to uncover new and exciting possibilities. http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Researchers-Discover-Method-For-Mass-0002?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/10/2008 5:17:00 AM Ramtron International Corporation, a leading developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, today launched the first parallel device in a family of new parallel and serial F-RAM products that offer higher-speed read/write performance, lower voltage operation, and optional device features http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Ramtron-Announces-Faster-And-Power-Flexible-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/10/2008 3:18:00 AM Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, a leading supplier of high-performance RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs, recently announced its new line of high-power RF switches for the mobile radio market http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Peregrine-Semiconductor-Announces-High-Power-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/10/2008 3:05:00 AM A new configurable chip which can correct faults in newly- manufactured transistors and can be implemented in mainstream devices such as mobile phones and computers, has been developed by engineers at the University of Southampton http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/New-Device-To-Improve-Transistor-Quality-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a 11/6/2008 12:20:00 AM