NIKKEI MICRODEVICES April 2008 vol.274

Cover Story
Electronic paper in action

Special Feature
Hot focus on EUV lithography in SPIE 2008

LSI

Inside Charge trap flash technology goes mainstream
Report Toshiba is ready to become the top in NAND flash memory market
Report Incursion of NAND flash memory into DRAM market
Report “nano tech 2008” report

Tutorial LSI

A-Z list of LSI-related materials technologies that add values to devices(1)

Energy

Report Toshiba launches thermoelectric power generation system to compete against solar battery

Tutorial Energy

Front-line of solar battery technology development(1)

FPD

Report Sharp-Sony affiliation： Future implications for FPD industry reorganization
Report Aftershock of Vizio phenomenon

MEMS

Inside A whopper arrives in MEMS design tool industry
Report Bosch joins the TPMS market

EDA

Inside Combination of hardware and software technologies makes the LSI failure analysis more efficient

Emerging Technology

3D memory technology with more than 1 tera byte band width

Key Word

CNT-FET

Key Person

Surrounding gate transistor brings semiconductor paradigm shift

Interview

MEMS CORE establishes a profitable model of MEMS prototype production

Watcher/International

Worlds latest news

New Products

IC design software for double patterning/Brion Technologies, Inc.
Phase shift/transmittance measurement system/Lasertec Corp.
Online solar panel inspection system/Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
Thermo gravimetry differential thermal analyzer/SII NanoTechnology Inc.

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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.