NIKKEI MICRODEVICES May 2007 vol. 263

Cover Story
Aiming at low cost LSI environment factory

Special Feature
Hynix’s NAND flash memory technological strategy

LSI

Report Future of LSI business inferred from NXP’s strategy
Report Toshiba's NAND flash memory strategy
Report Flash memory with flexible functions debut
Report Micron’s “kaizen”in production processes increases 40% throughput
Report JSR develops a high refractive-index liquid with higher transmittance than water
Report UMC announces launch of thin film solar modules production in 2008

Tutorial LSI

Comprehensive guide to LSI testers that break the 45nm mark (1)

FPD

Inside LIFI, a new electrodeless lamp for projectors
Report China also focuses on TV - LCD expected to take over CRT in 2010
Report Sony and Toshiba announce that they sell OLED-TVs
Report Challenge to commercialization of 20 inch class FEDs
Report Image safety emerges as the issues in improvement of image quality

Tutorial FPD

“Positive cycle” of technology development and commercialization brought LCD up to market giant (2)

EDA

Inside Development of SiP feasibility testing software through industry-academia cooperation

MEMS

Inside Succeeding arrival of ergonomically operable sensors

Emerging Technology

Platinum-free electrode catalyst for fuel cell

Key Word

LuAG

Key Person

Samsung's semiconductor business strategy

Interview

FormFactor’s probe card business strategy

Watcher/International

Worlds latest news

Challenger

JAXA’s MEMS utilization in space technologies

New Products

Photosensitive polyimide/Toray Industries, Inc.

Digital camera unit for inspection/ARGO Corp.

Semiconductor parametric test system/Agilent Technologies Inc.

Atomic force microscope/Hitachi Kenki FineTech Co.,Ltd.

Reticle inspection system/KLA-Tencor Corp.

Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition system/Novellus Systems, Inc.

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Nikkei Electronics Asia (monthly)

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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.