Salland - Innovative Solutions for Cost Reduction and Improved Reliability in Semiconductor Testing

Heraeus - Metallisation Pastes for the Semiconductor Industry

EV Group - Wafer Processing Equipment

SVTC Technologies - Accelerating Nanotechnology Innovation

Camfil Farr - Air Filters and Clean Air Solutions

M+W Group Wins Major Contract for New Infineon Semiconductor Plant in Malaysia
The global engineering and construction company M+W Group has received a major contract from Infineon Technologies for a new semiconductor plant in Kulim, Malaysia.

M+W Products in the Top Three at Best Professional Supplier Awards 2011
M+W Products - part of the global engineering and construction company M+W Group - was ranked amongst the top three 'Best Professional Suppliers 2011' as cross-disciplinary supplier in the assemblies and systems category.

M+W Group Breaks 7,000-Employee Barrier
The workforce of the international engineering and construction company M+W Group has broken a new record. As of 30 September this year, the company counted more than 7,000 employees, an increase of more than 900 relative to the beginning of the year. Nearly 60% of the new employees were hired in Asia, while around 20% were recruited each in Europe and the US.

Carl Zeiss Halbleitertechnik Nominates M+W Products as Supply Chain Partner
Carl Zeiss SMT has nominated M+W Products as a 'Carl Zeiss SMT Supply Chain Partner'. The Stuttgart-based company is Carl Zeiss SMT's tenth supplier to achieve this status within SMT's own supplier management program SUCCESS. M+W Products has been supplying the business division, semic

M+W Group's Customer 3SUN Opening Italy’s Largest Photovoltaic Module Factory
With an official ceremony M+W Group's customer 3SUN has celebrated the inauguration of its new photovoltaic module plant in the Sicilian town of Catania (Italy). 3SUN is a joint venture of Enel Green Power, Sharp and STMicroelectronics. M+W Group had been appointed as general contractor

Spectacular LED Information Wall Display at Museum of London
The Museum of London is considered the world's largest urban history museum. An important aspiration of the museum is to also make the knowledge it contains available to younger generations and...

Polycarbonate Lenses for Efficient LED Lighting: Brighter, Safer and More Resource-Conserving
The potential cost and energy savings alone make light-emitting diodes (LED's) a smarter choice than other lighting technologies for interior and exterior lighting...

Bayer MaterialScience Develops Customised Polycarbonate Grades for LED Applications
With the growing trend towards the use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for innovative lamp and lighting concepts, Bayer MaterialScience has developed new grades of its transparent...

Cost of Ownership and Overall Equipment Efficiency: A Photovoltaics Perspective
Cost of Ownership and Overall Equipment Efficiency: A Photovoltaics...

High-Ramp Industrial Firing Processes for the Metallisation of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
High-Ramp Industrial Firing Processes for the Metallisation of Crystalline Silicon Solar...

Bright Ideas
Fostering innovation is essential to continued progress, but it is important to be able to turn ideas into products. Jim Banks speaks to Lisa Su, the senior vice president and chief technology officer for Freescale Semiconductor, about the company's goal of successfully creating products, quickly and at the right cost.

ERM – The Challenges
Michael Mayberry of Intel tells us about emerging research devices already delivering the goods.

Innovation Revolution
Dragan Boscovic of Motorola, informs Gail Purvis about the continuing evolution of the mobile phone. He tells us what technological advances to expect in the future and how scientists are dealing with the problem of adding features to devices while reducing power consumption.

Small Wonder
Chips are now so complex that electronic design automation is vital for future performance. Jim Banks speaks to Michael J Fister, the president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, about the complexities of working at the nanometre scale to increase performance and functionality.

ERM – The Crucial Questions
Michael Garner of Intel answers the crucial questions on emerging research materials (ERM).

Nokia Mobile Phone Production Facility
Nokia has chosen Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, Southern India, for its tenth mobile phone factory. The facility will cost up to $150m over three years, and will make entry-level, mid-level, and top-end GSM (Global System Mobile) and CDMA (Code
division multiple access) handsets for the Indian market.

Samsung Electronics 300mm Fab Plant
Samsung Electronics is constructing a 300mm wafer fab in Austin, Texas. This, the first 300mm fab in central Texas, will produce DRAMs and other devices.

Toshiba 300mm Wafer Fab
Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk are building a new 300mm wafer fabrication facility at Toshiba's Yokkaichi operations in Japan. The companies plan to start construction of the new facility, called Fab-4, in August 2006. Initial production operations are scheduled to begin in Q4 2007.

AMD Saxony 300mm Semiconductor
AMD’s 300mm 65nm fab in Dresden, Germany, is one of Europe's largest semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The new facility is located next to AMD's existing main microprocessor fab, Fab 30.

Elpida Memory
Elpida Memory and Hiroshima Elpida Memory have constructed a second 300mm wafer fab in Hiroshima. The new 300mm DRAM (Dynamic RAM) plant was built next to the company's first 300mm facility and began mass production at the end of 2005. Elpida introduced 85nm processing at the new facility soon afterwards.