NIKKEI MICRODEVICES June 2007 vol. 264

Cover Story
Low power consumption design is the standard for all LSI

Special Feature
Value Assessment of Japanese LSI manufacturers (1)

LSI

Inside Healthcare industry gets the ball of standardization rolling
Inside “300mm Prime”improves the productivity
Report Succeeding arrival of new cost reduction measures for mask lithography
Report Si through-hole via technology is now in the pre-production stage
Report The latest platform from Tessera Technologies enables a thinner multi-layered chip
Report Toshiba develops the 1 nm-class resolution carrier distribution detection technology
Report Pricing optimization reduces LSI manufacturers' costs

Tutorial LSI

Comprehensive guide to LSI testers that break the 45 nm mark (2)

FPD

Inside Appearance of a new membrane display with the higher light usage efficiency
Report FPD market prospects in the second half of 2007

Tutorial FPD

“Positive cycle” of technology development and commercialization brought LCD up to market giant (3)

MEMS

Inside DENSO reveals automotive MEMS technology

FPD Tutorial

"Positive cycle" of technology development and commercialization brings LCD up to market giant

Emerging Technology

IBM develops the device analysis method using MRI

Key Word

Green laser

Key Person

Samsung Electronics' LCD business strategy

Interview

ULVAC's business strategy to win over China

Challenger

Micro Precision aims at the first in the ultra-compact projector market

Watcher/International

Worlds latest news

New Products

Anti-stain fluoropolymer coating material/Daikin Industries, Ltd.
Hardware-assisted verification platform/Mentor Graphics Corp.
Semiconductor characterization system/Keithley Instruments Inc.
Energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer/JEOL Ltd.

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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.