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Nikkei Microdevices

May 2006 Issue : TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover Story

Earning profit with ASSPs instead of ASIC

Special Feature

Proposals for the revitalization of Japan (4): Manufacturing

The reason why the competitiveness of semiconductor production has deteriorated - Japan falls behind in terms of "mieru-ka (visualization)"

Report LSI

Toshiba to build a new NAND flash memory plant

Report LSI

Shaking up Japan's semiconductor R&D framework - Selete and MIRAI set out to join forces

Report LSI

Seiko Epson and JSR succeed in manufacturing Si-TFT using inkjet technology

Report LSI

ROHM starts sample shipment of MOS FET using SiC

Report FPD

Breaking free from the limitation of CCFL - roadmap towards practical application of new backlight source

Report FPD

The focus of improving FPD television image quality shifts from competing in data figures to pursuing "viewability"

Inside MEMS

Low-cost 50 cents MEMS sensor for cell phones

Report MEMS

Verdict to be rendered for acceleration sensor patent suit

Tutorial

Overview of process equipment technology analyzed through the front-runner (4): Gate process

Overcoming the limitation of thin films by breaking away from materials used for the past several tens of years

Emerging Technology

Using protein to manufacture nonvolatile memory

Key Word

R&D foundry

Keyperson

Tokai Rika talks about their strategy for automobile semiconductors

Keyperson

New strategy for liquid crystal television

Interview

Cymer, Inc. expands business to the flat panel display market

Challenger

Surpassing the limits of the white LED's luminous efficiency

New Products

LED chip sorter / NEC Engineering,Ltd.

Liquid crystal alignment layer check system/Moritex Corp.

Programmable Video Signal Generator/ASTRODESIGN, Inc.

UWB device analyzer/LeCroy Corp.

Hardware-software co-verification software/CoWare, Inc.

PCB auto-routing management tool/Mentor Graphics Corp.