NOVELTY, Ohio, July 20 -- ASM International posted the following news from Applied Materials Inc.: Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., introduced materials engineering innovations designed to increase the performance-per-watt of computer systems by enabling copper wiring to scale to the 2-nm logic node and beyond. "The AI era needs more energy-efficient computing, and chip wiring and stacking are critical to performance and power consumption," said Dr. Prabu Raja, president of the sem  more

NOVELTY, Ohio, July 20 -- ASM International posted the following news: Federal agencies would be prohibited from using certain products if they were purchased from an entity other than the original manufacturer or an authorized reseller under a new bipartisan Senate bill. The Securing America's Federal Equipment (SAFE) in Supply Chains Act was introduced Thursday by Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Gary Peters, D-Mich., who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 19 [Category: Think Tank] -- The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution that says its mission is to advance free-market public policy, issued the following news release: On Friday, The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in Bristol Myers Squibb v. Becerra and Janssen Pharmaceuticals v. Becerra, calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to tell the Biden administration that its government-imposed price controls included in  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 19 [Category: Think Tank] -- The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution that says its mission is to advance free-market public policy, issued the following news release: Rea S. Hederman Jr., executive director of the Economic Research Center and vice president of policy at The Buckeye Institute, commented on the newly released jobs report from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. "In June, Ohio's unemployment rate increased to 4.4  more

NOVELTY, Ohio, July 20 (TNSres) -- ASM International posted the following news: Boosting the performance of solar cells, transistors, LEDs, and batteries will require better electronic materials, made from novel compositions that have yet to be discovered. To speed up the search for advanced functional materials, scientists are using AI tools to identify promising materials from hundreds of millions of chemical formulations. In tandem, engineers are building machines that can print hundreds of  more

NOVELTY, Ohio, July 20 (TNSres) -- ASM International posted the following news: An improved technique for analyzing single-atom defect structures and minor electron behavior disturbance in semiconductor and other materials has been demonstrated by researchers in Japan. The time-resolved atomic force microscopy (AFM) system overcomes the time resolution limitations of currently used scanning tunneling microscopy methods. Combining AFM with ultrashort laser pulse technology enables measurement o  more

NOVELTY, Ohio, July 20 -- ASM International posted the following news from NEOTech: NEOTech, Chatsworth, Calif., a leading provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS), design engineering, and supply chain solutions in the high-tech industrial, medical device, and aerospace/defense markets, announced a significant investment in and acquisition of state-of-the-art three-dimensional (3D) Computed Tomography (CT) scan equipment for its engineering laboratory. This strategic addition allows   more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 19 [Category: Think Tank] -- The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution that says its mission is to advance free-market public policy, issued the following news release: The Buckeye Institute filed its appeal in Darling v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) with the Ohio Supreme Court, calling on the court to hear the case and tell Ohio's lower courts that the courts--not the State Employment Relations Boar  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Just weeks after a court challenge to new coal ash safeguards joined in part by the operators of the General James M. Gavin Power Plant in southeastern Ohio was thrown out, about one million gallons of coal ash wastewater spilled from Minnesota Power's Boswell Energy Center, with some reaching a reservoir of the Mississippi River. The spill was discovered Tuesday. The spill raises major new conce  more