CoorsTek Inc., Golden, Colo., has reached a definitive agreement with the Carlyle Group and Unison Capital Group to acquire Covalent Materials Corp., Japan.
SEMI, San Jose, Calif., projects that worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 19.3% to $38.0 billion in 2014, according to its year-end forecast.
Sematech, Albany, N.Y., reports that promising progress has been made in qualifying outgassing specifications for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.
FEI Corp., Hillsboro, Ore., offers the Helios PFIB for large area deprocessing to enable electrical fault isolation of advanced process ICs, and advanced failure analysis of 3D packages.