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FPD/PCB NEWS～February 16


Mitsubishi Materials Withdrawal from the Sputtering Target Business

Mitsubishi Materials announced its decision to withdraw from the sputtering target business under the management of the Electronic Materials & Components Division, Advanced Products Company.

The company plans to discontinue products sequentially beginning in March 2023 and withdraw from the business by March 2024.

FPD/PCB NEWS～February 10


Showa Denko Drastically Accelerates Exploration of Optimal Formulation of Semiconductor Materials with Quantum Computing

Showa Denko (SDK) has demonstrated the ability of quantum computing technology to accelerate the exploration of the optimal formulation of semiconductor materials, reducing the exploration time from dozens of years of conventional methods to dozens of seconds.

Showa Denko focused on using high-performance computing technology, Digital Anneale, a quantum-inspired technology developed by Fujitsu. Showa Denko has developed an AI model for predicting the properties of semiconductor materials from complex formulation conditions. To make the AI model computable on Digital Annealer, Showa Denko has expressed the AI model as an Ising model, one of the statistical mechanical methods.

By simulating the Ising model on Digital Annealer, Showa Denko has reduced the exploration time to dozens of seconds, about 72,000 times faster than the time required by conventional AI methods, where the type and amount of ingredients to be explored are limited for conventional AI methods. Moreover, the optimal formulation designed with the Ising model is expected to obtain semiconductor materials with 30% higher performance than the formulation designed with conventional AI methods.