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James Moniz (pictured), who previously served as chief financial officer at Nextest Systems until it was acquired in February 2008 and then became CFO at Photon Dynamics for six months until it was acquired in October, is now fulfilling that role at Nanometrics. The Milpitas company, which used to bill itself as a maker of process control equipment used by the semiconductor industry, has greened up its description to include customers in the solar energy and light-emitting diode industries as well. No wonder, since the chip industry and the makers of equipment for them are mired in the industy’s Read the rest of this entry »