Chips and Change: How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry

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How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage.

Author(s): Clair Brown, Greg Linden
Edition: 1
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 271

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: The Global Semiconductor Industry......Page 14
Crisis 1: Loss of Competitive Advantage......Page 28
Crisis 2: Rising Cost of Fabrication......Page 52
Crisis 3: Rising Cost of Design......Page 74
Crisis 4: Consumer Price Squeeze......Page 90
Crisis 5: Limits to Moore’s Law......Page 108
Crisis 6: Finding Talent......Page 120
Crisis 7: Low Returns, High Risk......Page 150
Crisis 8: New Global Competition......Page 178
Conclusion: The Way Ahead......Page 212
Notes......Page 228
Index......Page 254