… and after years of tribulation with most people gone to other lands, a great fear was upon the land of Publishing for all business models were lost along with all hope. The web had washed so much away, and the multitudes prayed that the one true Jobs would intervene and with compassion bestow upon […]

Human intellectual development has eclipsed emotional development, with the resulting problem of clever people lacking morals. In government, industry, and academia there are endless examples of this problem, which is now threatening the economy due to corruption, and the very biosphere of the earth due to pollution. It is heartening that MIT (that trained most […]

At the Nikon Lithovisions 2009 Symposium on February 22 this year in San Jose, California, Masato Hamatani described the features and beta test results for the NSR-S620 scanning immersion exposure tool, optimized for double patterning lithography. While the tool boasts only one wafer stage, its “Streamlign Platform” concept shoots 200 wafers per hour with 2nm […]

There is no BetaBlog posting today, in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. “You don’t need to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve…” – from Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech The Drum Major Instinct delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, on 4 February 1968. While on summer break […]