NIKKEI MICRODEVICES December 2006 vol. 257 -- Tech-On!

NIKKEI MICRODEVICES December 2006 vol. 258

Cover Story
Indian power in LSI design

Special Feature
Immersion lithography and 32nm development drive business opportunity

LSI

[Inside] Stagnant microfabrication requires industrial restructuring
[Report] Mid-term financial statements of LSI/FPD manufacturers
[Report] Twenty times faster data distribution and usage between design and production
[Report] Biggest ever vertical furnace project utilizing single-wafer system features

FPD

[Inside] Winner of FPD business will be determined by the 50-inch class display market
[Report] Lens-like new diffusing plate reduces required optical sheets

MEMS

[Inside] Explore the power of mass-produced MEMS resonator
[Report] Exhibition Micromachine newsflash

Tutorial

Inspection and analysis: Visualization of atoms and atom ratio delivers early yield improvements

Emerging Technology

Significant LER reduction at EUV lithographing with 28nm resolution using low-molecular resist

Key Word

Bevel

Key Person

TV strategy in China by TCL

Interview

Future prospect of solar battery business

Watcher/International

Worlds latest news

New Products

Wafer-edge inspection system/KLA-Tencor Corp.
EUV lithography mask inspection system/Lasertec Corp.
Wafer cleaning system/Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd..
Single-wafer cleaning system/SEZ AG
Design data measurement software/Hitachi High-Technologies Corp.
Array structure parametric test option/Agilent Technologies Inc.
Metal CVD system/Tokyo Electron Ltd.
i-line stepper/Nikon Corp.
EB Iithography system/Advantest Corp.
Wafer inspection system/Toray Engineering Co., Ltd.
MVD tool/Applied Microstructures, Inc.
Resists film/MicroChem Corp.

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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.