The Asian economy has experienced tremendous gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the past decade and is expected to continue at a healthy pace for the next several years. The medical device ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. &#151 For years, chip and IC-equipment hopefuls in Europe, Japan and the U.S. have tried but failed to develop a viable photomask defect inspection tool to break KLA-Tencor Corp.'s ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. &#151 Looking to address the soaring costs of photomasks at the 45-nm node and beyond, a Japanese R&D organization is proposing and putting the pieces together to form a ...