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Table of Contents

2 Editorial

"Into Manufacturing, Joe"

 - Kenneth I. Werner

4 A View from the Hilltop

It Wouldn't Converge ...

 - Aris Silzars

12 Bringing Alien Technology Down to Earth

Having demonstrated that its innovative packaging technology works in laboratory quantities, the company with the strange name is thinking hard about how to engineer a glitch-free ramp-up.

 - Stan Drobac and Glenn Gengel

18 Automated Yield-Management Software in LCD Production

Small differences in AMLCD yields can spell the difference between success and failure, so the leader in yield-management software for ICs created a system for the display industry.

 - Ankush Oberai and Samuel Tam

24 25 Years of SID in Japan

SID's Japan Chapter has helped transform the Asian economy and produce the products that have ushered in the Information Age.

 - Aris Silzars, Chuji Suzuki, Shigeo Mikoshiba, and Makoto Maeda

30 The First IDMC and FPD Expo Korea Attract More Than 1000 People to Seoul

At IDMC, Korea was predicted to command 40% of the worldwide TFT-LCD industry by year's end, and Rainbow and Philips demonstrated a 37-in. TFT-LCD to compete with PDPs.

 - Ken Werner

48 Calendar of Display-Related Events

50 Book Reviews

52 Sustaining Members