Company News
M&W expand operations
THE GLOBAL engineering and construction company M+W Group (formerly M+W Zander) strengthens its position in the high tech services business. The company has announced that its subsidiary, M+W Americas, Inc. purchased 100 percent of NSTAR Global Services. The purchase price was not disclosed. NSTAR, based in Clayton, North
Carolina, joins M+W US, Inc, Total Facilities Solutions, and Global Automation Partners under the holding company of M+W Americas, Inc. The company specializes in providing technically proficient contract service resources to the semiconductor and high tech industries. With employees located at client sites throughout the United States, NSTAR has grown year- over-year since its founding in 2001. At the closing, Rick Whitney,
President of M+W Americas, Inc. stated, “NSTAR provides the M+W Group with an important cornerstone to our strategy of providing full life-cycle service and support to our clients. Participation in the service segment of the business will incorporate value driven sustaining support into the
Singapore increases gas detection ability
TIGER OPTICS LLC, a manufacturer of laser-based trace gas analyzers renowned for clean technology, announced today that Singapore’s National Metrology Centre (NMC) has selected the company’s LaserTrace Duo as a key component for its new gas laboratory.
factories we design and build.” In the joint press release, Randy
Nelson, President of NSTAR added: “Joining the M+W Group will allow NSTAR to provide our customer base what they have been asking for - a truly global solution. M+W Group operates from a well respected global platform that will enable us to proliferate our Third Partner Service offering for the semiconductor industry. It will also provide the opportunity to expand into other high tech and regulated industry sectors. The combined core competencies of M+W Group, TFS and NSTAR will provide a full service solution for our global customers.”
TSMC drives flash wafers
TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced that it has shipped nearly 600,000 8-inch 0.25-micron AEC-Q100 grade 1 qualified embedded flash (EmbFlash) wafers targeted at a wide variety of automotive applications, accounting for over 720 million microcontrollers (MCUs). Some customers who have tested the devices have achieved less than 0.1 parts per million field failure rate in 2009.
The less than 0.1 ppm field failure rate is considered exceptional for embedded flash devices, given the limited number of endurance cycles and data retention tests that can be performed during the manufacturing screening process. TSMC credits a combination of customer test methodology and the
company’s manufacturing capabilities for achieving this remarkable milestone that is much lower than the typical single digit field failure rate. TSMC is the first foundry to
offer an AEC-Q100 qualified embedded flash process. AEC-Q100 grade 1 qualification ensures devices manufactured on the process can endure 10,000 write/erase cycles and function under stringent temperature ranging from -40°C to 125°C. “Shipping 600,000 automotive qualified 8-inch 0.25-micron embedded flash wafers that set standards for endurance and lifelong quality underscores TSMC’s on-going commitment to the automotive electronics industry.” said director Cheng-Ming Lin, embedded flash business development at TSMC.
rain and global warming. Tiger instruments are employed in the metrology institutes of China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, The Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Tiger Optics holds exclusive rights
to multiple, broad-based patents from Princeton University on the field-proven technology known as Continuous Wave Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CW- CRDS). The company’s instruments can detect down to low parts-per-trillion in a variety of gas matrices. The LaserTrace Duo met NMC’s demand for a multi-point, multi-species, multi-gas analyzer capable of simultaneously measuring trace concentrations of moisture and oxygen in pure gases.
Established in 1975, the NMC is the national measurement authority for the Republic of Singapore. With its purchase, NMC joins a dozen other national metrology institutes that have turned to Tiger Optics since the company’s first sale in mid-2001. Many of the institutes are using Tiger instruments as a transfer standard to calibrate their own gas standards for research and industrial purposes. Some also rely on Tiger analyzers in their research of such problems as acid
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