VLSI Impact on Electronics in the 80´s and its Applications

With a variation of a well-known business adagium "Better have a market than a factory", I would formulate the message of this contribution on the VLSI-impact on electronics as "Better have a product than a process". The challenge for the electronics industry is how to obtain the right products from the microelectronics industry, what are these products and how and where are they conceived. To my opinion conception, design and testing of microelectronics products, the actual circuits, will in forthcoming years be a harder struggle than development and bringing into operation of opto-chemical, photo-lithographical, processes.