This time, we developed the recipe file generation software “MRM-CD (Multi Recipe Manager – Critical Dimension)” for Photo-Mask inspection.
This software enhances the function of the DFM Browser HOTSCOPE for Photo-Mask, and generates the CD measurement point specified on this browser as a recipe file in conformity with the P10 semi standard.
I hereby help the automation of the process, speedup and reduction of the inspection cost including inspection if I can interpret the file in conformity with the P10 semi standard in the inspection equipment or inspection preparations system side.
In us, I plan the development of the recipe file making function for inspections for defect “MRM-DF” as future release. It allows you to handle a recipe file formed by these software with a many functions Photo-Mask inspection equipment under development in us.
For details, please confirm it from the business contents page. In addition, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry performed this development as a part of the trust business by the strategic generic technology advancement support project in 2010.

I respectfully visit in everybody whom the damage of the East Japan great earthquake encountered, and I pray for the quick revival sincerely.

This time, our company reports that the notification of “continuance” decision and the notification of the extension at the period of fiscal year 2011 of Green IT use economy promotion business from Kanagawa Prefecture commerce and industry Bureau of Labor were received from an economic Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Kanto industrial bureau in fiscal year 2011 of the strategic, basic, technological upgrade support business.
It thinks the business development of our company based on efficient use of the Co2 reduction and the electrical energy to be receiving the accident of the unclear plant because of the other day’s earthquake and it, and more and more increases of importance though the examination and the judgment of both matters were done in the first ten days of March from January this year.
Again, it endeavors to be conscious of the weight of the responsibility, and to contribute to the revival of Japan.

Please continue your favors toward guidance and support of everybody in the future.

Mar. 31, 2011 Satoshi “Bin” Yamamoto, CEO

We held an annual meeting of stockholders on Dec 18, 2010, and officially chose new board member.

Mr. Takashi Kato

Takashi has experience with the semiconductor equipment industry for more than 20 years.
Please note that those new directors are already referred to in "Company Profile" section of this website.

Quema possesses capabilities to process and analyze 1byte/pixel (256-gray level) images. It has been coming through various improvement activities with close reference to the opinion of engineers who toiled on the development of inspection instruments, and its functions are widely applicable to, and quite useful in, the research activities and inspection instrument usage, both involving image analysis. For detail, please check our Description of Business page.

We hereby announce that we have become a member of the SiC Alliance, an organization to facilitate cooperation between the industrial and academic worlds and the government toward development and introduction of Future Power Electronics Technology to society through collaboration among them. SiC Alliance was established May 20, 2010, in order to contribute to the realization of low-carbon society by promoting cooperative efforts of the three sectors toward introduction of SiC wafers and SiC devices to both domestically as well as internationally, and through facilitating SiC semiconductors' usage. We, as an enterprise developing inspection equipment for photomasks used in semiconductor industry, aim to make a certain contribution to front-end wafer process.

Please click here for details of SiC Alliance.
http://www.meti.go.jp/press/20100520005/20100520005.html

Sept. 11, 2010 Satoshi "Bin" Yamamoto, CEO

We moved to Room 702 in the same building.

All the staff members are glad to have a larger, lighter office so we can be even more efficient and enthusiastic on our business.

Please feel free to drop in when coming around nearby. Guests are always welcome.

We have been nominated as a prospective contractor for Fundamental Technology Improvement Strategic Support Program 2010 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
We then received formal designation as a contractor for the program on Aug. 17, 2010, and submitted the proposal for research and development activity according to Specific Research and Development Plan of the ministry.
The R&D project name registered to the ministry is "Development of Automated Shared-use Photomask Inspection Equipment."
http://www.chusho.meti.go.jp/keiei/sapoin/2010/100618senryaku_koubo_kekka.htm

We are very proud to have received the latest nomination, following the official designation as the contractor for the Green IT Industry Promotion Program of Kanagawa prefecture government. We have established two project frameworks for them and defined respective management schemes on the budget, personnel and objectives, through which we would promote domestic manufacturing activities and also create novel employment opportunities.
We are now planning to establish a manufacturing facility at an appropriat location in Kanagawa Prefecture in five years.
We would appreciate your support and feedback, as well as kind support too, in the future.

July. 2, 2010 Satoshi "Bin" Yamamoto, CEO

The research article we presented, together with 2 other partners, at Photomask Japan 2010 titled "Large scale flash memory system (LSFMS) for photomask defect inspection machine" is now available for purchase from the SPIE site.

Go to SPIE's literature search site（http://spie.org/x925.xml）, enter"large scale flash" and click “GO” button at the page bottom to identify the article.

Regarding the purchase/payment, please contact the secretary of SPIE office. 
We do not intend to distribute the article reprints for free; we appreciate your understanding of this matter.

We applied for a contractor on the Green IT Industry Promotion Program of Kanagawa prefecture (part of the Hometown Employment Revitalizing Foundation Program), in conjunction with Ark Station, Inc., and were successfully awarded the designation.  The project theme we submitted is "Development and Marketing of Photomask Inspection Equipment as preparatory action for mass production of Green Device."

With this designation and accompanying financial support, we shall configure and operate the business with the target date of March 31, 2011 (if extension granted, Mar. 31, 2012).  Personnel sourcing activity shall be started soon in Kanagawa prefecture, according to the proviso of the program.

http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/osirase/sangyo/hurusato-it/index.html

http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/press/1006/018/index.html

We feel quite honored to have received this designation.  We have renewed our determination and commitment to implement our policy, "Reduction of carbon dioxide emission through semiconductor technology and Promotion of manufacturing activity in Japan with new conceptual framework."

Jun. 9, 2010 Satoshi "Bin" Yamamoto, CEO

We held an extraordinary shareholders' meeting on May 29, 2010, and officially chose two new board members.

Mr. Toshikazu Inomata
Mr. Takeo Saegusa

Please note that those new directors are already referred to in "Company Profile" section of this website.

Jun. 1, 2010 Satoshi "Bin" Yamamoto, CEO

We are transferring our web server and mail server to new machines.  During this transfer process, we may have a certain time window in which e-mails may be halted.  We would appreciate if all the mail transmissions to us are withheld until 16:00, April 29.

Also, we would be very grateful if any person, who sent e-mail(s) to us from 17:00, April 26 through 16:00, April 28, would re-send such mail(s, if any) to us again.  Many thanks, in advance, for kind cooperation.  (system administrator)

Our registration to “Invest Kanagawa 2nd Step” was made Apr. 22, as we did last year.  Governor Matsuzawa expressed a strong enthusiasm to nurture venture enterprises by all means.  He expressed concerns on the difficulties for attempts to establish venture business entities.  We DO have materials for making an all-night-long lecture, but we kept gentleman's silence on that issue.

We have renovated our home page as a part of our efforts to make this coming second year more fruitful.

We have renovated our home page as a part of our efforts to make this coming second year more fruitful.

Thank you in advance for your warm support and cooperation!

We will give a poster presentation at Photomask Japan 2010 (Apr. 13-15 at Pacifico Yokohama).  We will certainly the smallest of presenters in this renowned conference with established tradition, but we do have not less courage and friendliness than all those contenders.  Please watch what we'll do, with all the cooperation extended to us!

http://www.photomask-japan.org/PMJ_Poster0405.pdf

At KSP Business Audition, sponsored by KSP, Inc., we were among the final contestants who survived to the final jury (result announcement: March 1).
http://www.ksp.or.jp/topic/2010/03/-ksp.html

We were awarded the Entrepreneur Prize at the 64th Kawasaki Entrepreneur Audition, under the auspices of Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki.
http://www.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/bizidea/

It was the last of domestic events we attended.  We are now looking forward to making a poster presentation at PhotoMask Japan 2010 held at Pacifico Yokohama.
http://www.photomask-japan.org/

An interview article on us was published in February 16 issue of Environmental and Energy Industry News (Sangyo Times, Inc.), as the lead-off article covering 6 pages.  We are very glad and proud of that too.

We presented the large-capacity flash memory systems built with SD memory cards at Technical Show Yokohama (Feb.3-5 at Pacifico Yokohama) as the output from collaborative project with Kanagawa Industry Promotion Center (KIP).  We thank all the guests who visited our booth.  The presentation was made as an attempt to make a practical spin-off from an ongoing equipment-developing activity.  Various feedbacks as well as advices were kindly offered, and we came to expect our development seeds may have more-than-anticipated potential in the high-tech fields.

We have been officially recognized as a grant recipient of the Entrepreneur Venture Promotion Fund by Yokohama Industrial Development Corporation (IDEC Yokohama).  It is the third recognition as the object of public financial support, following those from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Kanagawa Prefecture.  Three firm footholds now!  To think back, we made the first step forward as an entrepreneur by entering Yokohama Business Grand-Prix on Sept. 15, 2008, foreseeing the coming new era, in which semiconductor technology should have significant implications in ecology-oriented society.  We have seen lots of things after that, including the bust of American investment banks and so on, so many events.  We are confident, however, that the foresight and integrity of us, as supported by those public institutions, should culminate in firm establishment of supports from various social sectors.

Back from a business trip (Jan. 11 - 15) to Bangalore, India, I miss refreshing scent of early summer I felt over there.  Comfortable warmth a little over 25 deg C was SO different from this chill of mid-winter in Japan.  Sacred quarters of temple call for barefoot steps even on weather beaten corridors or stairs open to outside.  Yet such quarters have worldly vending stands to let you have snacks on foot; different people have different customs.  I nearly forgot what I was there for.

Now that the new year has come, we’ll  have a special occasion to make a presentation on the development of large-capacity flash memory system, which is an integral part of our inspection machine technology.  We will disclose a working sample for demonstration at Technical Show Yokohama (Feb. 2 -, 2010 ) and make a presentation of our development efforts at Photomask Japan (April 13 -).  For details, please refer to Description of Business page.

(1) It was pity that we were unable to pass the semi-final of Yokohama Business Grand-prix 2010, yet making into “top 24” among 478 enterprises was of some significance.

(2) We were surprised to be awarded the “Guests (best impression) prize” at Kanagawa Business Audition (Nov. 26).
Semiconductor is losing momentum, poor publicity on Photomask, dubious better-than-never effort on middle-low-end equipment; it is paradoxically amazing that such a self-abusing presentation won the most popularity.  Several guests told us of wonderful impression they had, which seemed to be contagious for us too.  Next, we aim to build a tangible presence in Kawasaki theatre!

Lastly, we express our appreciation to the guests who voted for us and to Mr. Steve Jobs.

http://news.kanaloco.jp/localnews/article/0911250036/

Five years since my last visit to Silicon Valley.  After so many things I am here again, and I cannot help being meditative and reminiscing.  People here say that high-class restaurants are re-gaining popularity again, and Silicon Valley seems to be on the way to strong recovery, perhaps taking Green Technology as a catalyst.  I missed that a restaurant is gone, where I often enjoyed their escargot, roast beef and soufflé.  I plan to leave for Japan on Oct. 23 - have I not told you what I was here for?

We made it to the final review of Kanagawa Business Audition 2009 (Nov. 25).  We are proud to have passed the first and second review, and then the hearing interview successfully, most likely because our business strategy met the demand of the present day.  The key phrase of our choice, “semiconductor technology for ecology” was quite pertinent.

Click here for the details of Kanagawa Business Audition.

Passing the primary and secondary reviews, we made it to the semi-final review (Nov. 7).  Last year, we failed to qualify the second; so this is a definite step forward.  From this year, reviews from semi-final and later are made open to public, and this change gave us a definite boost to our enthusiasm.

Click here for overview and details of Yokohama Business Grand-Prix

Click here for the details of the semi-final review

We made an enterprise presentation at the 2nd intercommunion salon hosted by Kanagawa Neo Active Duty Challenger Support Secretariat.  We know we are still a baby company, and are expecting to grow with supports and helps from knowledgeable and experience-full elders.

http://www.shin-geneki-kanagawa.jp/

An engineer came from our development partner, SoftJin Techologies of India.  They are globally renowned company in the fields of Electronic Design Automation and Mask Data Preparation.  She (the engineer) will be stationed in our office and work on customer demand analysis, specification settling, technical discussion as well as intercommunication with SoftJin Headquarters.

http://www.softjin.com/html/home.htm

The project we have been promoting, “Development of Automated Shared-use Photomask Inspection Equipment,” received a formal designation as a specific research and development plan as defined in the Article 4, Term 1 of Act on the Improvement of Fundamental Technology of Small and Medium Enterprises for Manufacturing Activities, from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry.  Sounds fairly complicated, but receiving this official designation would certainly gives a significant momentum to our development efforts.

Specific Environment Development Plan Recognition Registry Number: Kanto 0908452

We received a thank-you letter from Governor Matsuzawa of Kanagawa prefecture for our attendance in Invest Kanagawa Seminar and On-site Excursion, though actualization as an enterprise has to wait a little while, hopefully.  As we started out with hot enthusiasm on “Domestic Manufacturing in Japan,” we do intend to establish a manufacturing facility of our own someday soon, and make every efforts toward that.

Our board of directors made a formal decision to increase capital, this time by accepting individual monetary investment from customers, friends and relatives, all of whom provide deep understanding and support for our activities.  After the increase, our capital will amount three million, two hundred and fifty thousand yen.

I made a business trip to Bangalore, India, for a meeting with a development partner.  That region has been making rapid growths with IT industry as its core.  Construction of business parks, housing complexes and hotels are in progress, yet they are scattered in not too orderly cityscape and gave rather chaotic impression.

We held a modest anniversary party.  We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the guests who kindly and kindly came to this occasion from various places, as near as the neighboring Landmark Tower to as far as Miyazaki prefecture.

We decided our company's logo mark on this kitty.  A staff member found a cute ornament (from Seto Porcelain) at a fancy goods store in Hamamatsucho, Tokyo (Cat & Dragon), and had its design made into a character mark (by Lead Design), with due permission.

（Cat & Dragon）
http://ginzagift-racca.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=1

Seto Tougeisha (lit. Seto Porcelain, Inc.)
http://www.syouhou.jp/

Lead Co. Ltd.
http://www.re-ad.co.jp/

2009/06/10　Recognized as a recipient of Corporatization Financing Support Fund
2009/06/05　We held a corporate kickoff party.
2009/06/03　We decided the company's logo mark.
For detailed information, open the Inquiry page.