Houston, Texas-based new technology flat panel developer SI Diamond Technology Inc has turned those assets it bought from the Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp pre-competitive research consortium in Austin (CI No 2,591) into a subsidiary company, Diamond Tech One Inc. The new company will give S1 an advanced development centre for its diamond field emission flat panel display and add a new business in electronic packaging and assembly – it reckons the business is already a leader in advanced technology for microelectronic packaging, interconnection and assembly, and it will offer everything from single chip packaging to chip-on-glass and substrate level fabrication to third parties for advanced wafer preparation, rapid prototyping, display packaging, and laser microfabrication processes. AlliedSignal Corp is already using 30-employee Diamond Tech One’s wafer passivation and gold bumping services to support its contribution to the Iridium Inc effort.
