Fabless-foundry partnerships: research on coordination issues

Author

Seshadri, Sridhar ; Shanthikuma, J. George ; Nurani, Raman K. ; Chatterjee, Arun

Author_Institution

New York Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

10-12 Sep 1997

Firstpage

386

Lastpage

390

Abstract

The fabless-foundry partnership business constitutes about 17% of total market in the semiconductor industry and is expected to reach $68 billion by the end of this century. The growth of this market is expected to be even more significant in sub-micron technologies. Given the rate of growth and the high technology profile of products, large investment of capital, time, and effort have to be dedicated for ensuring successful partnership outcomes. We outline the potential problems of coordination that may arise in such partnerships. We also propose an agenda for studying such coordination issues, with special emphasis on yield management

Keywords

VLSI; economics; integrated circuit manufacture; integrated circuit yield; investment; product development; capital investment; coordination issues; fabless-foundry partnerships; partnership outcomes; semiconductor industry; sub-micron technologies; yield management; Demand forecasting; Economic forecasting; Electronics industry; Foundries; Game theory; Investments; Product design; Semiconductor device manufacture; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor process modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference and Workshop, 1997. IEEE/SEMI

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

ISSN

1078-8743

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4050-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASMC.1997.630767

Filename

630767