NIKKEI MICRODEVICES July 2007 vol. 265

Cover Story
OLED makes the move to the big-screen TV market

Special Feature
Value Assessment of Japanese LSI manufacturers(2)

LSI

Inside IITC news flash reports competitors strive to differentiate their airgap technologies
Report Launch of project to support challenging researches
Report New technologies prompt image sensors to garner a new market
Report Major LSI & FPD manufacturers' FY2006 settlements

Tutorial LSI

Comprehensive guide to LSI testers that break the 45 nm mark (3)

FPD

Report SID 2007 news flash
Report Korean display companies are uniting for competitiveness
Report Driver IC lowers LCD panel power consumption on mobile phones

Tutorial FPD

“Positive cycle” of technology development and commercialization brought LCD up to market giant(4)

MEMS

Inside Bosch speeds up MEMS etch rate to 100µm/min
Report Transducers news flash
Report Matsushita Electric Industrial joins Si microphone market
Report Matsushita Electric Works brings WLP to a practical level

Emerging Technology

Actuator that delivers both high-speed movement and high precision

Key Word

Coordinated verification of hardware and software

Key Person

Intel tells the next generation LSI production technological strategy

Key Person

The Carlyle Group says, "Japanese semiconductor industry can grow stronger"

Interview

Chipworks talks, "We support LSI manufacturers' intellectual property strategy"

Challenger

Analog IC with the world's highest performance is achieved by "skills" of technicians

Watcher/International

Worlds latest news

New Products

LCD Driver test system/Advantest Corp.
Ion milling system/Hitachi High-Technologies Corp.
Analog EDA software/Silicon Canvas, Inc.
Small drills and router bits for PCB/Kyocera 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.