The 2016 Pittcon Heritage Award, jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), has been presented to Kenji Kazato (1917-2012) and Kazuo Ito (1921- ), who led a group of scientists in Japan to develop an electron microscope.
Ultratech Inc., San Jose, Calif., announces a follow-on order from a major foundry for its LSA101 laser spike anneal system equipped with the dual-beam option, which provides a second low-power laser that adds flexibility to chip production.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Korea, has begun mass producing the industry’s first 10-nm class 8Gb DDR4 (double-data-rate-4) DRAM chips and the modules derived from them.
Invensas Corp., San Jose, Calif., announces that Sandia National Laboratories has signed a new license agreement for ZiBond low-temperature homogeneous bonding technology and for Direct Bond Interconnect (DBI) technology, a low-temperature, hybrid bonding technology for integrated electrical interconnects.
The Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance, San Jose, Calif., and Semico Research, Phoenix, Ariz., announce that they have entered into a joint marketing agreement to work together on several business initiatives in support of the semiconductor design ecosystem.
