Zurichss Bank Vontobel are the latest to launch a basket of nanotech stocks, with many of the usual suspects present. If you want to do your own due diligence, or just get an idea of whats going on, then you should be in Ireland in April. The World Nano-Economic Congress Ireland is the only place you will be able to hear for yourself what is really going on inside some of the most talked about companies involved in the application of nanotechnologies.
Advance Nanotechs CEO, Magnus Gittins, will be making a keynote address at the WNEC on: From Science to Product: Making a Promising Technology into a successful business. With its new initiative in the UK, Advance Nanotech will provide a great deal of insight into how the gap between research and a product can be addressed
Intel was also in the news this week, stating that CMOS is virtually immortal and that the new generation of chip making is on target. In the latter story, Intel points out that its plants in Oregon, Arizona and Ireland are currently being upgraded to handle 65-nanometer production, improving efficiency and cutting per-unit production costs.
Dr. Jenny Patterson, Nanotechnology Program Manager, Intel Ireland Ltd. will be discussing Silicon Nanoelectronics – Innovation Challenges Ahead at the WNEC. As Intel Ireland has just recently opened its new nanotechnology research facilities, it appears that Ireland has become one of Intels leading research labs in the area of nanotechnology
FEI Company announced the world’s first SEM for ultra-high resolution characterization of non-conductive or contaminating samples, something for us all to worry about is what happens to particles released inside a SEM and then pumped out – we all know where the exhaust from the pumps end up!
FEI is strongly represented at the WNEC Ireland, with Dr. Rob Fastenau, General Manager Europe, FEI Company making a Keynote Address and Dr. Anantha Sethuraman, Vice President of Product Marketing, FEI Company discussing Transitioning from Microelectronics to Nanostructural Electronics: Novel Approaches for Process Control. With FEI recording record profits in their last quarter, comments from them on the development of nanotechnology and the tools business are essential to getting the state of nanotechnologies commercial development.