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SanDisk to Build iNAND Ultra Line Using 19 nm Production Technology

SanDisk has declared that its iNAND Ultra series of products will be built on its 19 nm production process. The iNAND Ultra series is the first of the company’s portfolio of flash memory products to be developed using the sophisticated production technology in 2012.

12 Jan 2012

Nanometrics Implements its Optical Critical Dimension Technology

Nanometrics, a provider of sophisticated process control systems and solutions, has reached an important milestone signifying the implementation of its optical critical dimension (OCD) technology.

11 Jan 2012

Rare Earth Ion Doped Optical Amplifier with Performance Comparable to Semiconductor Amplifiers

Prof. Markus Pollnau and co-workers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente have developed a rare-earth-ion-doped optical amplifier with performance comparable to semiconductor amplifiers.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 10 Jan 2012

Checkpoint Technologies Releases 3.0 NA SIL for Laser Scanning Microscopy System

Checkpoint Technologies, a provider of laser scanning and photon emission microscopy systems for applications in the failure analysis industry, has unveiled its 3.0 numerical aperture (NA) solid immersion lens objective (SIL).

7 Jan 2012

STATS ChipPAC Breaks Ground for New Plant to Bolster Advanced Wafer Level Technologies

STATS ChipPAC, a provider of semiconductor advanced packaging and test solutions, has conducted the groundbreaking ceremony for its new plant to be built close to its existing facility in Yishun, Singapore, to expand its production capabilities for sophisticated wafer level technologies such as through silicon via (TSV), integrated passive devices (IPD), wafer level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) and embedded wafer level ball grid array (eWLB).

7 Jan 2012

Major Chip Provider Places Orders for ANTARES Single-Wafer CryoKinetic Systems

FSI International, a provider of surface conditioning technology, devices and support services for the production of microelectronics, has declared that it has received orders from a major equipment manufacturer for several ANTARES cryokinetic cleaning systems.

7 Jan 2012

Strategic Partnership to Develop Silicon Magnetics Using Enpirion’s MEMS Magnetics Technology

Enpirion and JiangyinChangdian Advanced Packaging (JCAP) have signed a strategic collaboration deal to produce silicon-based magnetics using the micro-electronic magnetic silicon (MEMS) technology of Enpirion.

5 Jan 2012

LSI Demonstrates 28 nm Read Channel to HDD OEM Customers

LSI has declared that it has demonstrated the TrueStore RC5100, a first-of-its-kind 28 nm read channel, to OEM customers producing hard disk drives (HDD).

26 Dec 2011

Nanotechnology Researchers End 50 Year Effort to Isolate Magnon Drag Effect

In a paper published in Nature Materials, a group of researchers at the Catalan
Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN) led by ICREA Prof. Sergio O. Valenzuela
reports the observation of the magnon drag. This work ends a 50-year long effort to isolate this elusive thermoelectric effect.

18 Dec 2011

Nanometer Circuit Verification Expert Receives ISA Technovation Award

Berkeley Design Automation, a pioneer in nanometer circuit verification, has declared that the India Semiconductor Association (ISA), an organization addressing the Indian electronic system design and manufacturing industry, has chosen Berkeley Design Automation as a recipient of the ISA Technovation Award (December 2011) under the Semiconductor (Intellectual Property) category.

17 Dec 2011