NIKKEI MICRODEVICES March 2006 vol. 250 -- Tech-On!

NIKKEI MICRODEVICES June 2006 vol. 250

Cover Story
The day when solar cells will not use polysilicon anymore

LSI

[Inside]A stream of new materials targeting CMOS devices appear
[Inside]Fujitsu's semiconductor strategy focusing on logic LSI gets on track
[Report] Featured SoC development （3）:SIMD processor with 352 parallel processor elements for Ricoh's copier
[Report] Non-floating gate flash memory products successively debut on the market

FPD

[Inside]The digital broadcasting age meets a new standard that allows more natural colors
[Report]Keio University establishes technology that enables highly productive mass-production of optical film

Tutorial

Overview of process equipment technology analyzed through the front-runner（2）: CMOS device

Emerging Technology

SOI technology expands the use of RFID tags

Key Word

EES

Key Person

"Will aim for the establishment of a Japanese independent foundry"

Key Person

Spansion talks about the future of nonvolatile memory

Interview

Sanyo Aqua Technology's wastewater treatment business strategy for LSI plants

Challenger

Dai Nippon Printing talks about development of exposure mask for the 32nm node

Watcher/International

Worlds latest news

New Products

Electron-beam wafer inspection tool/KLA-Tencor Corp.
Compact SEM/JEOL Ltd.
Optical pattern inspector for PCBs/Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Digital oscilloscope with data, wave search functionality/Tektronix, Inc.
LCD driver IC/Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Touch panel/SMK 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.
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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.