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Solid State Technology invited Semicon West attendees to vote on the best products they saw at the July trade show in San Francisco’s Moscone Center.

It was a rare quick exchange during Alan Greenspan’s testimony before a Senate finance committee.

Nano-optics - a class of highly compact, high-performance optical components that are readily customized and easily integrated with other optical devices and electronics - are of significant interest to both electro-optic circuit designers and manufacturers.

To meet the patterning needs of wafer-level packaging (WLP), the IC industry has relied on familiar contact printers and stepper systems.

Solid State Technology asked experts to comment on the implications of Roadmap requirements on DFM.

Production ramps in 300mm fabs have increased the emphasis on equipment availability.

The demand for memory used to be driven mainly by business applications. That sector continues to grow with the rise of the Internet, e-commerce, and e-tailing, and much more active product tracking in retail channels as well as for just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing.

Rapid growth in consumer electronics, particularly for mobile applications, is driving a surge in demand for hard-disk storage, particularly micro-drives.

Processing challenges have made it difficult to put flash memory on the same chip with CMOS logic.

Platform-based process equipment and integrated process and metrology tools will be pivotal in advancing reliable, economical manufacturing of small form-factor hard disk drives (HDD).