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Ametek completes acquisition of Gatan for its advanced analytical/testing instrumentation
Published: December 16, 2019
Ametek Inc., Berwyn, Pa., announces that it has completed its acquisition of Gatan, a leading manufacturer of instrumentation and software for enhancing and extending the operation and performance of electron microscopes.
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Oxford Instruments supplies plasma etch/deposition solutions to Taiwan company
Published: December 16, 2019
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, England, announces that HLJ Technology Co. Ltd., Taiwan, has selected multiple Oxford Instruments Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) etch and Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) systems on cluster platforms for the production of six-inch VCSEL wafers.
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Ultra Tec Top Surface Scanning improves final backside prep of packaged die
Published: December 16, 2019
Ultra Tec., Santa Ana, Calif., announces that a new physical-contact Top Surface Scanning mode joins the feature set on Ultra Tec’s ASAP-1 in situ selected area prep system.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific designs Metrios AX S/TEM to improve semiconductor failure analysis
Published: December 16, 2019
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Portland, Oregon, announces the Thermo Scientific Metrios AX, the world's first commercially released scanning transmission electron microscope (S/TEM) to use machine learning to automate high-quality data collection.
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Murata multi-layer ceramic capacitor is 50 times smaller than conventional capacitors
Published: December 16, 2019
Murata Electronics North America, Smyrna, Ga., announces that the company has developed the world’s first multi-layer ceramic capacitor, with 0.1μF dimensions of 0.25×0.125 mm.
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Semiconductor sales increase 2.9% in October; 2019 sales projected to decrease by 12.8%
Published: December 16, 2019
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), Washington, reports that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $36.6 billion for the month of October 2019, an increase of 2.9 percent from the previous month’s total of $35.6 billion.
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SEMI forecasts equipment sales will rebound in 2020, reach record high in 2021
Published: December 16, 2019
SEMI, Milpitas, Calif., in its Year-End Total Equipment Forecast, predicts that global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales will drop by 10.5 percent to $57.6 billion in 2019 from 2018, but will recover in 2020 and set a new high in 2021.
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Rigaku installs two x-ray dispersive instruments at Covalent Metrology lab
Published: December 16, 2019
Rigaku Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., announces the installation, in the recently-expanded Covalent Metrology Sunnyvale service lab, of two of its newest analytical instruments: the Rigaku AZX400 sequential wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometer, and the CT Lab HX system.
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Applied Materials opens Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator
Published: December 16, 2019
Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., announces the opening of the Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator (META Center), a first-of-its-kind facility aimed at speeding customer prototyping of new materials, process technologies, and devices.
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Solar designs furnace to process magnetic shielding materials for electronic devices
Published: December 10, 2019
Solar Manufacturing Inc., Sellersville, Pa., announces that the MuShield Co. of Londonderry, New Hampshire, has commissioned Solar Manufacturing to design its first-ever vacuum furnace.
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