CHARLOTTE, NC – The North Carolina Economic Investment Committee voted today to award a Job Development Investment Grant to TesseraTechnologies.
The grant will support Tessera’s consumer optics plans, enabling the company to add 185 jobs and invest approximately $30 million in its Charlotte-based wafer-level optics facilities during the next five years, the company said in a press statement. The grant calls for the state to provide funds equal to 65% of the state personal income withholding taxes derived from the creation of new jobs, provided Tessera meets set performance targets. Should the company create the jobs called for under the agreement and sustain them for nine years, the agreement could yield as much as $2.64 million in benefits.
LOWELL, MA – Tyco Electronics today announced it intends to sell its Radio Frequency Components and Subsystem business.
The segment represented about $500 million of total the business unit’s $887 million in sales in 2007, but is considered a non-strategic business.
Headquartered in Lowell, MA, the unit employs about 2,000 people at 11 locations throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Tyco has no current plans to sell its Public Safety/Land Mobile Radio Systems and Products businesses, which are also part of the Tyco Electronics unit.
SAN JOSE – The MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council will hold its 6th Annual MEMS packaging symposium on May 22.
The one-day event will take place at the Wyndham Hotel in San Jose, and will explore new applications, market opportunities, and enabling technologies for MEMS, including emerging biomedical and consumer sectors.
The program will include talks on MEMS and the consumer, automotive and biomedicine markets, and on the impact of wafer-level packaging and 3-D ICs on foundries and the industry.