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Nikkei Microdevices

March 2004 Issue : TABLE OF CONTENTS

Special Feature

How to find business opportunities in MEMS technology

Special Feature

The reason why Intel is strengthening their focus on nanotechnology is that they "cannot maintain the Moore's law in the current environment"

Inside Logic

Jedat Inc. develops an analog/digital EDA system that enables circuit designers and layout designers to collaborate

Inside Memory

Samsung of Korea is on the offensive with their NAND flash memory strategy promoting SLC

Inside FPD

A close study of Korean FPD devices and materials

Report

Report/Logic
Process technology is now sold in parts as Toshiba takes on this strategy towards the Chinese market

Report/Logic
1300 signal lines used to connect chips in layers - will there be no need for embedded DRAM process?

Report/Logic
Matsushita shares its view on analog top-down SoC design - the basic approach should be to design a system, not a circuit

Report/Logic
SystemC continues to permeate - Fujitsu's design company releases case samples of design and verification

Report/Logic
The packaging manufacturers' role has changed to include chip procurement as a necessity, according to Amkor of the U.S.

Report/Logic
Cadence of the U.S. aims to recover its lead in the industry by overhauling their framework for research and development

Report/Memory
How the next generation lithography will be is becoming clearer - immersion ArF lithography will almost certainly be the technology for 65nm

Report/Memory
World semiconductor market growth in 2003 is 18.3% over the previous year, 4 points above the WSTS fall forecast

Report/Memory
Intel says that mobile phones do not need NAND

Report/FPD
Color filters made with printing technology is aiming for a larger size to reduce large-screen liquid crystal television costs

Report/New Technology
Micron of the U.S. introduces CMOS sensors with "CCD quality" to the mobile phones market

Emerging

Nano-scale 3D processing realized with electron beam (EB)

Challenger

Automatic control technology is the core for aiming for fabless in the future

Start Up

Aim to have Japanese LSI technology for mobile phones bloom in China

Interview

Chip One Stop (http://www.chip1stop.com/Top_ja.cfm) sells chips online plans to co-exist and prosper together with semiconductor trading companies

Watcher/International

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