Japanese engineers rate top technologies.

The article focuses on a survey of industries in Japan by Japanese engineers. In a recent survey on the hot companies to watch in the semiconductor industry, most companies generated interest for rethinking the business model, and few were established semiconductor players. The only two companies rated for purely technological breakthroughs were from the automotive sector Toyota Motor Corp. for its high quality, and Bridgestone Corp. for its fast-reacting powder for displays. Japanese startup System Fabrication Technologies also got attention for its new approach to combining logic and memory chips into a chip-like system-in-a-package.