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SEMICON Taiwan 2002
DIGITIMES Show Daily, SEMICON Taiwan 2002, Taipei (16-18 September)
IN THE NEWS
Wednesday 18 September 2002
An interview with Martin M. Schwartz, CEO, Therma-Wave
Excluding technical differences, what sets your products apart from your competitors?
Wednesday 18 September 2002
Downturn reduces DRAM players, weak demand leaves market uncertain
Following the long downturn in the PC market, the major DRAM players are experiencing a major reshuffle. The surviving companies will dominate regional markets in a winner takes all...
Wednesday 18 September 2002
Taiwan IC industry – slightly better 1H, long-term cautious optimism
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry performance was not good in 2001, turning in its first year of negative growth with an overall value of NT$526.9 billion, dropping 26.2% compared...
Wednesday 18 September 2002
Global economic slowdown: Shrinking demand lowers upstream expectations
When Morris Chang, CEO of TSMC, began his speech at the company’s Q2 shareholder’s meeting, he began by reciting Chinese poetry and then proceeded to fail optimistic public...
Wednesday 18 September 2002
Challenges for Taiwan companies going into communications ICs
Starting in the nineties, the PC market received a massive boost and accelerated its growth with a revolution in networking and communications technology. With the gradual evolution...
Tuesday 17 September 2002
FEI and KLA offer combined e-beam inspection tool and wafer analyzer
FEI and KLA-Tencor have joined forces to deliver a complete defect detection and structural root cause analysis solution for semiconductor manufacturers needing to manage technology...
Tuesday 17 September 2002
Applied Materials targets 300mm RTP with new, dedicated platform
Applied Materials has introduced its new Radiance Vantage system, a dedicated, two-chamber rapid thermal processing (RTP) solution for 300mm high-volume chip manufacturing. Exhibited...
Tuesday 17 September 2002
Semiconductor demand – an application viewpoint
From a product characteristic point of view, semiconductors can be classified under industrial parts and components. The strength and weakness of demand in the semiconductor market...
Tuesday 17 September 2002
China supply chain near completion in critical ramp-up phase
Turning point reached in 2000 with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (GSMC) and Article 18 the driving for...
Tuesday 17 September 2002
Global foundry industry: Present & future
The 36% decline in the wafer contract manufacturing industry during 2001 is the first-ever downturn for wafer contract manufacturers over the past ten years. Despite a drop in capacity...
Monday 16 September 2002
Yu-Tech Integrated Systems
A pump you could take home to mother
Monday 16 September 2002
Zen Voce Technology (Taiwan)
Building customer trust through total test solutions
Monday 16 September 2002
Taiwan Puritic
TPC, an ISO9001-certified manufacturer, is an agent for several worldwide famous manufacturers in the semiconductor field as their sales and service representative in Taiwan and the...
Monday 16 September 2002
Yokogawa
Providing direct-drive (DD) motors that allow rotational control and linear motors with low vibration, low dust generation and low heat generation.
Monday 16 September 2002
Therma-Wave
Optical thin-film metrology system