Data Storage: Fueling Your Future
Presented by IDEMA, DISKCON USA is held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel/Santa Clara Convention Center.
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September 15 - 18, 2008
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DISKCON USA 2008 Conference
Data Storage: Fueling Your Future
Customer requirements for information storage supersede all limits and bounds both economically and geographically. Storage needs are increasing at a greater rate than microprocessors. Affordable storage and the desire to access information at any time or place have fueled an increased demand for storage products.
The DISKCON USA 2008 Conference will address how magnetic hard disk and solid state drives are meeting this insatiable need for storage. All phases of technology, market sizes, and projections on the future of storage will be assessed in an in-depth status report. Storage industry experts will express their opinions in a panel discussion of the industry and its future.
Special Lithography Session
High density storage progress will depend on technologies currently in use today for HDD recording heads and NAND (solid state drives.) The world is rapidly entering an era where advanced patterning technology will be required to maintain disk drive's 40% CAGR of storage capacity and enable sub 45 nm feature sizes for solid state storage. This special DISKCON conference session will address all aspects of lithography; from the present UV exposure tool capability and its future enhancements, to e-beam mastering and nano-imprinting.
Chairman of the Conference Planning Committee:
Dr. Ed Grochowski, Computer Storage Consultant
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
7:00am Registration Opens
8:00am - 8:10am
Welcome to DISKCON USA 2008
Dr. Joel Weiss, President, IDEMA
8:10am - 8:35am:
Kickoff Presentation
Dave Reinsel, Vice President, Storage & Semiconductor Research, IDC: The Global Market - Nowhere To Go But Up
8:35am - 10:15am
Session 1 - Market Perspectives on HDD and SSD Technology and Adoption
This session will review market forecasts for HDD and SDD products and the supporting technologies. IDEMA has assembled key storage analysts to examine product demand and how the industry will meet these. Past analyses and present performances of storage growth will be compared to create a solid market forecast. This session is the industry report card; measuring its accomplishments and drafting a blueprint for continued success.
Chairman: Dave Reinsel, Vice President, Storage & Semiconductor Research, IDC
Confirmed Speakers:
John Chen, Senior Director, TrendFOCUS
Joseph Unsworth, Research Director, NAND Flash Semiconductors and John Monroe, Research Vice President, Storage Markets, Technology and Service Provider Research from Gartner
Jim Handy, Semiconductor Analyst, Objective Analysis: Why and How SSDs are Economical
John Rydning, Research Director, Hard Disk Drives and Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Disk Drives, IDC:Mobile Storage - Facts, Misconceptions, and New Realities
Coffee Break: 10:15am - 10:50am
10:50am - 12:30pm
Session 2 - Storage Applications and System Architecture
Meeting future storage requirements through the enhancement of current production capabilities impacts both storage availability and product application. New technologies for storage yield new opportunities in product design and the system architectures in which these will be applied. In addition, such impacts on performance, power savings and reduced environmental effects are becoming critical in this era of consumer-based and IT applications. These, and the cost of ownership for storage products, will comprise the principal theme of this session.
Chairman: Dr. Tom Coughlin, President,Coughlin Associates
Confirmed Speakers:
Dr. Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates: Sharing is Storing
Pat Wilkison, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, STEC:Storage Product Evolution and Process Requirements
Michael Alvarado, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Xyratex International:Five Storage Technology Mega Trends
Hubbert Smith, Director of Enterprise Storage Marketing, Samsung: SSD in Enterprise Storage
Conrad Maxwell, Sr. Product Line Manager, Silicon Image, Inc. (SATA-IO Marketing Work Group Chair): Increase Your Speed: Next-Generation Specification Doubles SATA Speed to 6Gb/s
Lunch: 12:30pm - 2:15pm
Lunch Speaker:
2:15pm - 5:00pm
Session 3 - The Basis for Success - Components, Testing and Evaluation
HDDs and SSDs have made astonishing advancements in areal density, capacity and performance parameters. This session will explore the status of new technologies such as heat activated magnetic recording (HAMR), patterned media (DTM & BPM) and advanced NAND Flash to continue this progress. IDEMA has gathered authorities to present an evaluation of magnetic and solid state technologies, and how these can be tested to support future storage progress. Storage reliability continues to a decisive factor for storage devices. To provide an insight into reliability developments, this session includes both a review of IDEMA's recent Reliability Symposium and a progress report on 4096 byte data sectors.
Chairman: Dr. William Cain, Vice President of Technology, Western Digital Corp.
Confirmed Speakers:
Dr. William Cain, Vice President of Technology, Western Digital: The Incredible Shrinking Bit - Exploring the Technology of Magnetic Disk Storage
Al Fazio, Intel Fellow, Intel Corporation: The Real Story about NAND Flash and Solid-State Drive Reliability
Dr. Jon Elerath, Senior Systems Engineer, NetApp: Review of IDEMA Reliability Symposium on May 15, 2008
Alexander Taratorin, Principal Scientist, Integral Solutions: Characterization of Perpendicular Write Heads Using Inductance Measurements
Dr. Tony Lavia, President & CEO, Flexstar Technology: The Greening of Test Systems
Mike Fitzpatrick, Senior Research Executive, Architecture Development Group, Fujitsu Computer Products of America: 4096-Byte Sector Program - A Review of IDEMA Standards Activity
Dr. Tim Rausch, Seagate Technology: "Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording: Progress and Prospects"
7:00pm
Keynote Dinner Presentation Featuring
End of first day
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Future Storage Lithography - A Crossroads in Technology?
7:00am: Registration Open
8:00am - 8:10am
Welcome to DISKCON USA 2008
Dr. Joel Weiss, President, IDEMA
Kickoff Presentation: 8:10am - 8:30am
8:30am - 12:00pm
Session 4 - Reading and Writing the Fine Print: A Review of Current and Future Lithography Equipment
Lithographic exposure equipment for geometries approaching 22 nm and beyond will evolve significantly to achieve higher density storage both HDD and SSD devices. To control significant capital and process expenditures, some manufacturers will likely opt to extend the exposure capability of today's 193 nm UV equipment, using EUV technology and immersion concepts. Alternatively, e-beam generated masters and nano-imprinting could produce lithographic capability for tomorrow's high density products. This session includes equipment specialists who will discuss various lithographic solutions, including direct write e-beam, double patterning, high sensitivity resists and other long range concepts.
Chairman:Paul Hofemann, VP of HDD and Emerging Markets Business Development, Molecular Imprints, Inc
Confirmed Speakers:
Dr. Peter ten Berge, Product Marketing Manager, ASML: Challenges for Lithography in TFH Manufacturing in the DTR Age
Dr. Robert Allen, Manager of Materials for Lithography & Water Purification, IBM: Resist Design for Future Lithography
Dr. Robert Fontana, Jr., IBM Systems Technology Group and Dr. Steven Hetzler, IBM Research Division: Magnetic Recording and NAND Flash Areal Densities - a Lithographic Perspective
Dr. Babak Heidari, Chief Technical Officer, Obducat: Manufacturing Challenges for Lithography in the Textured Disc Paradigm
Dr. Ren Xu, Key Account Technologist, Intevac: Patterned Media Technology: An Equipment Perspective Abstract
Dr. Deirdre Olynick, Staff Scientist, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: Plasma Etching at the Nanoscale - Challenges for Patterned Media
Steve Brown, International Sales Director, Roth-Rau: High Precision Film Thickness Trimming for TFH Industry
Lunch: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch Speaker:
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Session 5 - Walking the Fine Line to the Future: Process Developments for Fine Lines and Features
Increasing density for future storage products requires exposure tooling with fine line capability, but there are significantly varying options for implementing this technology. For HDDs, discrete track recording (DTR) and bit patterned media (BPM) involve a media structure in which tracks and bits are defined lithographically. New process techniques are required for decreasing the source/drain spacing of SSD structures while controlling topography and these also apply to certain critical levels for magnetic recording heads. Process and storage device experts will discuss these technology challenges and the corresponding metrology for fine line lithography characterization.
Chairman: Ken Mason, Business Development Manager, Obducat
Confirmed Speakers:
Sri Venkataram, KLA-Tencor: Metrology and Inspection for Advanced Data Storage Lithography Requirements
Dr. Neil Robertson, Manager, Adv. Head Development and Nanotechnology Dept., Hitachi GST: Patterned Media: Processing Technology
Dr. Dwayne LaBrake, Director of Applications, Molecular Imprints, Inc.: DTM and BPM Patterning Considerations Using S-FIL: Double Side Imprinting and Imprinting Mask Replication Processes through Pattern Transfer
Dr. Dieter Weller, Chief Technologist, Patterning Technology & Advanced Media, Seagate Technology: Achieving Tight Sigmas in Bit Patterned Media
Dr. Lin Huang, Manager, Applications and Test Engineering, Veeco Instruments: Developing an AFM-based Automatic Tool for NanoAsperity Quantification
4:30pm - 5:00pm
Session 6: Lithography Panel Discussion and Conclusions
Session Chair:
Dr. Ed Grochowski, Computer Storage Consultant
The Conference is held in the theatre at the Santa Clara Convention Center
Prices are as follows:
Member Pricing: 2 day conf - $595.00; 1 day conf - $325.00; Keynote Dinner - $135.00. These prices are in effect until September 12, 2008.
Non-Member Pricing: 2 day conf - $825.00; 1 day conf - $455.00; Keynote Dinner - $185.00. These prices are in effect until September 12, 2008.
September 15 - 18, 2008
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DISKCON USA 2008 Poster Session, September 17-18, 2008
September 15: Technology for Youth Charity Golf Tournament, Castlewood Country Club, Pleasanton, CA
September 17-18: Trade Show
Show hours:
Hyatt Regency Hotel/Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
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Exhibitors:
Abeam Technology, Booth 501
Advanced Surface Microscopy, Inc., Booth 523
Aerotech, Inc., Booth 106
AF Optical, Inc., Booth 517
AheadTek, Booth 122
Alio Industries, Booth 314
Aries-MRS, Booth 309
BiTMICRO Networks, Inc., Booth 308
Canon ANELVA Corporation, Booth 214
Controlled Environments Magazine
Cool Clean Technologies, Inc., Booth 521
DataStorex
Dexter Magnetic Technologies, Inc., Booth 103
Donaldson Company, Inc., Booth 317
Engis Corporation, Booth 217
Entegris, Inc., Booth 315
Flexstar Technology, Booth 202
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Booth 102
Futek Furnace, Inc., Booth 218
Glide/Write, Booth 107
Hitachi High Technologies, Booth 415
Hitachi High Technologies America, Booth 416
Hutchinson Technology, Booth 311
Hyperion Catalysis International, Booth 219
IDEMA, Booth 518
IMES, Co., Ltd., Booth 200
Indilinx Co., Ltd., Booth 306
Innotec Automation, Booth 423
Innovative Organics (Saint Gobain), Booth 201
Integral Solutions International, Booth 408
Intevac, Booth 209
JDC Inc., Booth 223
Kashiyama USA, Inc., Booth 515
KLA-Tencor, Booth 115
Labtec Sales LLC, Booth 519
Leybold Optics, Booth 507
Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, Booth 303
Magnecomp Group, Booth 210
MeiVac, Inc., Booth 322
MicroE Systems, Inc., Booth 316
Millennium Automation, Booth 208
Molecular Imprints, Booth 300
Morgan Advanced Ceramics, Inc. - Diamonex Products, Booth 105
Motion Control Systems, Inc., Booth 118
MRA Tek LLC, Booth 203
n&k Technology, Booth 205
Nanocyl S.A., Booth 422
Nanonex Corporation, Booth 323
Nova Magnetics, Inc. Booth 304
Obducat, Booth 204
Ovation Polymers, Booth 503
Parker Hannifin,Booth 207
Park Systems, Booth 301
Photonics Spectra, Booth 319
Photronics, Inc.Booth 120
PI (Physik Instrumente), Booth 101
Piezosystem Jena Inc.Booth 307
Quadrant Technology Corporation, Booth 121
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., Booth 220
SanDisk Corporation, Booth 206
Schmitt Measurement Systems, Booth 414
SCI Engineered Materials, Booth 221
Seagull Solutions, Inc., Booth 310
ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd., Booth 119
Solid State Technology
Surface Imaging Systems, Inc., Booth 215
TDI Nanopatterning, Booth 509
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Booth 320
Veeco Instruments Inc., Booth 109
W.L. Gore & Associates, Booth 411
Xyratex, Booth 123
IDEMA Thanks its 2008 Global Sponsors
Western Digital
Knowledgetek
Heraeus
Seagate Technology
Fujitsu
Intevac
Veeco
If you would like information about exhibiting at DISKCON USA 2008, please contact Paul Moschella at 781-769-8950 or pmoschella@hajar.com
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