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Asyst ends Aquest takeover talks
Oct 12 -- Citing a lack of action on the part of its suitor, Asyst Technologies says it has ended talks over a potential takeover announced earlier this summer involving Aquest and former founder Mihir Parikh....
 
Aquest's Parikh: "Incremental" solutions the way to get fab productivity, savings
Jul 16 -- Mihir Parikh, president/CEO of Aquest Systems, talked with SST about why many fabs are taking a closer look at the systems they have in place and making incremental changes to improve them, rather than diving into new facility upgrades....
 
Asyst debuts products to address megafab automation challenges
Jul 14 -- Asyst CEO John Swenson talks with SST about Asyst's new "Agile Automation" family of technologies, desgined to address the growing complexity required to automate the massive fabs of today and tomorrow....
 
Cimetrix debuting latest tool control product
Jul 03 -- Cimetrix's CIMControlFramework software, debuting at SEMICON West, addresses the increasing demand for more efficient 300mm substrate handling and factory automation at the tool level, as well as the need for more and higher-quality data. SST's exclusive interview includes details about the tool's first integration with a JDP partner....
 
Analyst: Automation tools to slump 34% in 2008
Jun 09 -- June 9, 2008 - Semiconductor equipment sales in general are expected to slump in 2008, and the automation segment is no exception, though there is some motion in the sector among suppliers, according to a brief analysis by The Information Network....
 
NXP continues the Philips tradition of business model innovation
May 22 -- by Ed Korczynski, senior technical editor, Solid State Technology
May 22, 2008 - Philips arguably pioneered the fab-lite business model 20 years ago, and was one of the earliest investors and customers of TSMC. Its chip spinoff NXP Semiconductor continues the relationship with R&D and arguably most-favored customer status at the world's leading foundry. Peter Yates, SVP at NXP, talked at this week's Confab about his company's strategy to navigate troubled-waters in many nimble ships....
 
Shared visualization, consensus essential for next-gen fabs
May 20 -- by Bob Haavind, editorial director, Solid State Technology
May 20, 2008 - Achieving significant productivity and cycle-time improvements in next-generation factories (NGFs) will require industrywide collaboration in cutting waste, particularly through "shared visualization," according to Shigeru Kobayashi, chief engineer for Renesas in Japan, at a Confab NGF panel session....
 
 

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