NIKKEI MICRODEVICES December 2008 vol. 271 -- Tech-On!

NIKKEI MICRODEVICES November 2005 vol. 245

Cover Story
Sanyo, Back on Track after Earthquake

Special Feature

Wafer thickness reduced to 2 µm

LSI

[Inside] Cortex-A8, a new-generation ARM core, marks 1 GHz operation at 65nm
[Report] "IEDM 2005" preview:New combinations of processes appear in succession
[Report] "Competition for dominance gets fiercer in oxide film etching equipment - Conventional plasma etching is winning"
[Report] Featured SoC development (2):Sony's SoC "HD Codec Engine" for HD digital video
[Report] DRAMs break through their limitations with capacitor-less structure
[Report] "ISSM 2005" [Report]:Cooperation of APC and DFM is the key
[Report] Samsung secures reliability and yield with its proprietary circuit simulator

FPD

[Inside] Flash [Report] from "FPD International 2005"
[Report] Quantitative assessment of image quality of "Sony panels"

MEMS

[Inside] Analyzing the winner group of MEMS companies

Emerging Technology

Laying out nano-size wire inside Si crystal

Key Word

"PRAM"

Key Person (1)

Displaystrategy of Matsushita - It takes the offensive across the world with promo phrase of "Thin, Digital, and HD"

Key Person (2)

"The ideal state of Japanese semiconductor industry" that the METI expects to see

Interview

Focusing on creating a flexible organization good at dealing with environmental changes

New Products

Five line confocal microscope/ Lasertec Corp.
Ion milling system/Hitachi High-Technologies Corp.
Film thickness measurement system/Rudolph Technologies, Inc.
IC power grid verification software/Sequence Design, Inc.
Wafer imaging system/Cascade Microtech, Inc.
Transfer robot/Yaskawa Electric Corp.

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NE Asia fulfills your needs by offering articles covering a wide spectrum of topics. In addition to the English edition, the local editions for Taiwan and Korea now offer editorial sections written by local editors.
Magazine Subscription Information

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The NE ASIA News Update e-newsletter

Nikkei Electronics Asia (monthly)

We are offering a magazine monthly to qualified engineers and managers free of charge.

In-depth Articles from Nikkei Electronics Asia

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.