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Jul 10, 2008 -- Rim Semiconductor Company (OTCBB: RSMI), a company that develops technology for telecommunications service providers, filed a non-provisional patent application on its innovative RQAM(TM) technology. Rim Semi's Cupria(TM) transport processor is based on this RQAM technology, and is able to drive data traffic at more than 40 megabits per second (Mpbs) 5,500 feet (1.67km) on 26AWG (0.40mm) telephone wire. Existing technologies are able to drive data 15 mbps at this distance on this wire type. Telephone companies, municipalities, and businesses can use Cupria(TM) for services like IPTV, Ethernet and monitoring. The patent, entitled "Amplitude Modulation Decoder," was filed as a non-provisional patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It was also filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, which most of the world's industrialized countries are a part of. Thus, Rim Semi's intellectual property rights are protected across a wide geography. Rim Semiconductor Company owns, co-owns or exclusively licenses technology from seventeen issued patents and eleven patent applications in the United States. All of these patents and patent applications generally pertain to methodologies to modify data and transmit it more efficiently on metallic media like copper wire. RQAM(TM) can be combined with many of them to produce superior semiconductor performance.
Jul 10, 2008 -- Today KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) introduced the latest version of its industry-leading computational lithography tool, PROLITH 11. The new tool enables users for the first time to evaluate current double-patterning schemes and cost-effectively explore alternate solutions to lithography challenges in design, materials and process development. This new computational lithography tool also supports single-pass patterning and immersion technologies. PROLITH 11 allows engineers to model this complex system with unprecedented precision, and then use the model to optimize the system by exploring the effects of small or large changes in mask design, photoresist properties, and scanner or process parameters on the printed pattern. By using PROLITH 11, fabs avoid time-consuming, expensive experiments on product wafers which delay time to market and result in thousands of scrapped processed wafers. As one tool in a complete suite of systems from KLA-Tencor designed to address advanced lithography challenges, PROLITH 11 has been shipped to leading chipmakers in the U.S., Japan and Taiwan. The PROLITH platform comprises the most widely used lithography simulation toolset on the market, installed in the development groups of virtually every chipmaker currently producing 65nm and 45nm devices. "The emergence of double-patterning lithography has challenged circuit designers and chipmakers because of the dramatic increase in lithography complexity and experimental costs," noted Ed Charrier, vice president and general manager of KLA-Tencor's Process Control Information Division. "Computational lithography has become an essential tool for controlling these costs. Among computational lithography tools, PROLITH 11 has the unique ability to allow engineers to explore wide ranges of design, material or process conditions in order to solve a particular problem - without having to spend the resources of a fab."
Jul 10, 2008 -- Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced today that Asahikasei EMD(AKEMD), the world's premier supplier of audio ICs for professional and consumer markets, has purchased several new UltraFLEX-HD systems for testing RF SOC devices. The UltraFLEX-HD is the newest member of the UltraFLEX family of test systems, and supports all existing UltraFLEX instrumentation in a compatible small footprint 12-slot test system. "Teradyne's UltraFLEX-HD system offers us a test cost reduction with its support for high multisite test in a small footprint. We appreciate the compact size of the system, it allows us to minimize our production floor space without compromising performance," said Mr. Toshikazu Suzuki, director, chief design and development officer, Asahikasei EMD Corporation. "As we look to increase the complexity of our RF devices and expand our product offerings, the UltraPin800 and UltraWave 12G instruments provide us with the best test economics and help reduce our time to market for multisite applications. I believe we made the right choice of platform and digital instrumentation to support our current and future business goals." AKEMD also purchased the new UltraPin800 digital instrument and the UltraWave 12G wireless test instrument for their UltraFLEX-HD systems. AKEMD is the first customer to select the UltraFLEX-HD system with the new instrumentation suite for testing RF devices. "Teradyne's new instrumentation suite extends the UltraFLEX system capabilities for high efficiency parallel test for complex SOCs," said Gregory Smith, manager of Teradyne's Broadband and Computing Business Unit. "We remain committed to providing customers with industry leading performance, high throughput and multisite test efficiency essential to achieving the lowest cost of test. In addition, the scalability of the FLEX platform allows us to expand our product offerings to anticipate growing market demand in current and new application areas."
Jul 10, 2008 -- Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) today announced its Applied E3 advanced equipment and process control solution, a comprehensive factory automation (FA) software package for improving the productivity and reducing the costs of semiconductor, flat panel display and photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing. Utilizing proprietary algorithms, the Applied E3 system can boost process capability by >30%, reduce unscheduled down time, and shorten cycle time to achieve up to a 20% increase in overall equipment effectiveness. The Applied E3 system uniquely integrates all critical equipment automation and process control components to deliver the most flexible, user-friendly and powerful fab-wide Equipment Engineering System solution on the market today. "Customers understand that equipment automation is a huge opportunity to exploit the unused potential of their existing assets and to reduce costs," said Manfred Kerschbaum, senior vice president and general manager of Applied Global Services. "The E3 system revolutionizes equipment automation and control technology, which has historically been complex and expensive to implement and maintain. With its graphical development environment and pre-configured modules, the Applied E3 system is quick to deploy and easy to update and extend, offering a fast and cost-effective route to raise factory output. The Applied E3 system has been enthusiastically received by multiple major manufacturers and is currently being used in volume production."
Market Wrap for July 10th, 2008
The stock market chopped along without any clear direction Thursday, but in the end it finished respectably higher. Caution restricted much of the session's movement. In turn, an upbeat announcement from a major retailer, news of a rich takeover bid, and encouraging economic data received relatively little attention. Dow component Wal-Mart (WMT 57.21, -0.46) announced prior to the session's opening bell that June same-store sales climbed 5.8%, which is a considerable feat for a retailer of its size. In turn, Wal-Mart boosted its second quarter earnings outlook to the range $0.82 to $0.84 per share. Analysts pegged second quarter estimates at $0.82 per share. Dow Chemical (DOW 32.52, -1.44) announced it is acquiring Rohm and Haas (ROH 73.62, +28.79) for $78.00 per share, which represents a 74% premium to the previous session's closing price. Shares of ROH surged to reflect the bid, helping lift the materials sector 2.7%; the sector was the session's best performer. The latest initial jobless claims data indicated that weekly claims are fairly stable, based on their two-week average, which stands at 375,000. The average is in-line with levels seen in March. Specific to the week ending July 5, initial claims fell 58,000 to 346,000, which is below economists' consensus estimate. Stocks were able to close higher without the help of financials (-0.9%). Persistent concern related to the liquidity of Fannie Mae (FNM 13.20, -2.11) and Freddie Mac (FRE 8.00, -2.26) surrounds the two lenders, even after a spokesperson from Freddie Mac stated the firm has enough capital, according to Reuters. Thrifts and mortgage players, as an industry, finished 10.5% lower. Investment banks also encountered trouble during the session; the industry group finished 1.5% lower. A late-session rise in crude prices could not derail stocks in the final leg of trading either. Crude finished nearly $5 higher to close its session just shy of $141 per barrel.
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