Cadence Design Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif., and Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., announce that they are collaborating to support Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate process technology for customers of Intel Custom Foundry.

Oxford Instruments Asylum Research, Santa Barbara, Calif., announces the new MFP-3D Infinity Atomic Force Microscope, which enables images such as the silicon nitride shown.

SUSS MicroTec, Germany, has successfully qualified its new DSC300 Gen2 projection lithography system for volume production at a major Asian packaging house.

Semiconductor Research Corp., Research Triangle Park, N.C., reports that a team of researchers from Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.; SEMATECH, Albany, N.Y.; and SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Albany, N.Y., are working on high-performance molybdenum disulfide field-effect transistors.

Entegris Inc., Billerica, Mass., has inaugurated its new i2M Center for Advanced Materials Science in Bedford, Mass.