NIKKEI MICRODEVICES August 2005 vol. 242

Cover Story [20th Anniversary]
Innovation in manufacturing and design

Special Feature

Maximizing the longevity of planar CMOS

LSI

Report Can MIRAI integrate with ASUKA? - Tsukuba R & D Center to open
Report Samsung launches mass-production of 70 nm NAND flash memory

FPD

Inside Samsung's vision of "40-inch LCD television, 100,000 yen in 2010"
Report Sharp anounced new liquid crystal display technology

New Technology

Report Freescale unveils cost reduction strategy for MEMS device

Emerging Technology

Using MEMS in place of TFT reduces FPD manufacturing cost by one digit

Key Word

"Luminous efficiency"

Key Person (1)

The next step for the joint semiconductor development project "Selete"

Key Person (2)

NTT DoCoMo see handset to become an information terminal that users "feel"

Watcher / International

World's latest news

EDITORS' BLOG

Pixel Qi and the Impending Apple "MediaBook?"

Following the latest Apple rumors is something of a Silicon Valley sport, so I'm going to put my own spin on one. Note this one has no basis on anything other then my own fevered imaginings, so treat accordingly. (May 22) read more

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Cover Story SSDs Challenge HDDs, but Quality a Problem

Solid-state drives (SSD) using NAND Flash memory are beginning to show up in a variety of equipment as storage devices. Prices are dropping as semiconductor technology continues to evolve, accelerating adoption of the drives, but manufacturers must also deal with eroding quality.

Analysis Expanded Use of Silicon Tuners Transforms Tvs

With analog television broadcasting slated for the axe in about two years in Japan, TV broadcast tuners are evolving rapidly, replacing old radio frequency (RF) analog circuits with new integrated circuits (IC) called silicon tuners. Signal demodulators are evolving with them, and by tracing the direction of their evolution it is possible to delineate the shape of tomorrow's TV.

Convenience Stores Lead in Energy Conservation

Convenience store franchises are moving to slash energy consumption following the revision of the Japanese Act on the Rational Use of Energy, and are rapidly becoming showcases for cutting-edge energy-conservation technology. The technologies honed here will spread to other firms in the distribution industry, office buildings and more, eventually worldwide.

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