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9. The Semiconductor Industry – Past, Present, and Future

Corey Richard1  
(1)
San Francisco, CA, USA
 

Having spent eight chapters dissecting everything from transistor structures to System Architecture, we should be well familiarized with semiconductor technology. The question now begs, how does all this technology play into the big picture? Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the semiconductor industry has faced two ongoing major challenges – rising design costs and increasing manufacturing costs. These two challenges have driven the field from fully integrated design companies ...

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