National Instruments, Austin, Texas, introduces its Semiconductor Test Systems (STS), which feature PXI modular instrumentation and open system design software for semiconductor test environments.
In 1962, an underground fire started in the coal-mining town of Centralia, Pa. Fifty-three years later, that fire still burns.
New material could make it possible to pack more transistors on a chip, research suggests.
Engineers at Oregon State University, Corvallis, report that they have invented a way to fabricate silver nanoparticles that are produced at room temperature for printed electronics.
Orbotech Ltd., Israel, announces that SPTS Technologies Group (SPTS), U.K., an Orbotech company and supplier of advanced wafer processing solutions, has sold its Thermal Products business to SPP Technologies Co. (SPT), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Precision Products Co.
