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Business Results
In fiscal 1998, sales of industrial
instruments declined 2.4%, to
¥241.9 billion (US$1,831 million),
and accounted for 65.0% of con-
solidated net sales. This fall was
due primarily to a slump in the
market for semiconductors.
Steppers
The market for semiconductor
manufacturing related equipment
continued to stagnate as memory
prices continued to plummet, stifling
demand for capital investment by
semiconductor manufacturers.
Also pulling down the market were
delays and withdrawals of orders
from companies in Korea, which had
previously comprised a stronger
market of steppers and now are
hard pressed by the economic
turmoil in that country. Amid these
harsh conditions, Nikon launched
its new NSR-2205EX14C Krypton
Fluoride (KrF) excimer steppers
for use in the mass production of
such next-generation devices as
third- and fourth-generation 64M
DRAMs. In addition, we introduced
the NSR-S202A Step-and-Repeat
KrF Excimer Scanning System for
the mass production of 256M
DRAMs and next-generation micro-
processors. Orders are now being
accepted for both products.
Other Precision
Instruments
In microscopes and measuring
instruments, Nikon introduced the
ECLIPSE E1000, a new addition to
its top-of-the-line ECLIPSE series of
biological microscopes. The ECLIPSE
E1000 was designed to offer unpar-
alleled performance to researchers
conducting detailed, exacting
studies. This fully automated
Industrial Instruments
NSR-2205EX14C ECLIPSE E10OO
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