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HP Indigo Presses' Reduced Labor Requirements Have Enabled Becker's Fabrication To Cut Overhead And Increase Customer Service
White Papers Yorba Linda, California-based Becker's Fabrication/BFI Labels specializes in the manufacture of graphic overlays, decals, nameplates, membrane switches, polyurethane medallions, and labels of all descriptions' including U.L.blank, golf shaftband...
[June 24, 2005, 0:00]
Suspension Vibration Compensation Using A MEMS Microactuator In Hard Disk Drives
White Papers This paper discusses the design and fabrication of a prototype MEMS microactuator and vibration sensors, and controller design for suspension vibration compensation in disk drives. An electrical isolation MEMS fabrication technique is utilized to...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Digital, Intel Happy With End Of Saga
News Intel gets yet more fabrication capabilities while Digital gets $700 million cash and buys some future for its Alpha customers. It gives Intel extra fabrication. The firms both seem satisfied. And of course, the litigation is over.
[October 27, 1997, 17:07]
Intel To Open Chip Plant In China
News Intel has announced that it will open a wafer fabrication facility in China, a significant milestone in the chip giant's manufacturing history. Instead, when it comes to erecting fabrication facilities, companies look at the available local...
[March 26, 2007, 9:00]
IBM Fishkill Semiconductor Plant An Example Of Agile, Realtime Operation
White Papers When IBM (www.ibm.com) designed its state-of-the-art chip fabrication plant in Fishkill, New York, the technology giant was determined to avoid the same production line processes that impeded productivity and impact customer service at its...
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
Application Of Electron-Beam Direct-Writing Technology To System-LSI Manufacturing
White Papers EB (electron-beam) direct-writing lithography has not only been used for semiconductor research and development but has also been applied to small-volume fabrication of custom LSI (large-scale integration) chips.
[December 9, 2004, 2:00]
New CD-SEM System For 100-nm Node Process
White Papers In addition, the demand is growing for functionalities applicable to new fabrication processes, such as ArF-resist and low-k insulating-layer processes, which have been developed to achieve higher levels of integration into microstructures.
[December 24, 2004, 2:00]
Japanese Companies May Form A Super-foundry
News In a brief statement, the companies said they "initiated a joint study on the feasibility of an independent semiconductor foundry business offering advanced fabrication processes to which each of the companies could outsource fabrication.
[December 29, 2005, 9:55]
US Report: IBM To Stop Making Cyrix Chips
News The news comes as Nat Semi ramps up manufacturing of Cyrix processors in its own fabrication facility in Portland, Maine. Sources said the company was eager to put its new state-of-the-art fabrication plant (often called a fab) to use and merge its...
[September 2, 1998, 16:48]
Lacey's Paper Round
News No sign of the IT world slackening off for the holidays yet as the The Wall Street Journal reports on the race to build digital TV-based 'portals' in the living room, The Economist reports on Ball Semiconductor - a Texas company who may have a...
[December 7, 1998, 12:58]
A Year Ago: IBM To Stop Making Cyrix Chips
News The news comes as Nat Semi ramps up manufacturing of Cyrix processors in its own fabrication facility in Portland, Maine. Sources said the company was eager to put its new state-of-the-art fabrication plant(often called a fab) to use and merge its...
[September 3, 1999, 6:55]
Cyrix To Offer 300MHz PII Class Chip Q1 1998
News Cyrix expects to deliver a PR-266 version of the chip in the fourth quarter of 1997 when IBM moves its fabrication to a 0.25-micron process; Cyrix has no fabrication facility of its own. The first spawn of the 6x86MX line - the PR166, PR200 and...
[June 5, 1997, 16:36]
Cyrix 6x86MX .25 Micron First For Nat Semi Plant
News Cyrix will continue its relationship with IBM Microelectronics which currently manufactures the existing 6x86MX chips because Cyrix does not have its own fabrication facilities and wants to maintain volumes.
[January 13, 1998, 15:47]
One Year Ago: Cyrix 300MHz PII Chip Ships Q1 1998
News Cyrix expects to deliver a PR-266 version of the chip in the fourth quarter of 1997 when IBM moves its fabrication to a 0.25-micron process; Cyrix has no fabrication facility of its own. Cyrix will push on with ambitious plans to release chips that...
[June 5, 1998, 6:00]
Chip Heavyweights Hope Alliance Adds Up
News Developing new manufacturing processes and installing them in new fabrication plants can cost billions of dollars. TSMC, meanwhile, will gain access to the manufacturing technologies created by the new joint pact, allowing it to produce large...
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
Intel Talks Up Telecoms, TV And Stephen Hawking
News Using silicon for the modulator makes fabrication cheaper. UWB allows high-speed communication over short ranges, making video over wireless a possibility, which LCOS brings the benefits of silicon-based fabrication to displays, the aim being to...
[April 20, 2004, 11:40]
Intel Claims 0.13-micron Milestone
News Intel, which plans to adapt the 0.13-micron process at nine fabrication plants by the end of 2003, is hoping to begin with its Fab 20 plant in Oregon, US in the first quarter of 2001. The company said it would be able to re-use about 70 percent of...
[November 8, 2000, 8:46]
Intel's Two-way Punch Knocks Out 45nm Chips
News The good news is that there are hundreds if not thousands of high-ΔΈ materials: the bad news is that very few are compatible with existing silicon chip fabrication techniques. It was eventually realised that extreme care had to be taken to avoid...
[January 30, 2007, 14:33]
Dell Hit By Intel Shortage
News Intel expects that its newest fabrication plant (to be called Fab 22), along with $800 million worth of its updates to its Hudson, Massachusetts, fab, should help ease its supply situation in the long run.
[January 27, 2000, 8:33]
New AMD Factory Ups The Ante Against Intel
News Though achieving that goal won't be easy, a new fabrication facility opened in Germany on Friday gives the company the real estate to try. For years, AMD has dreamed of nabbing 30 percent of the market share for PC microprocessors.
[October 14, 2005, 11:45]
