Title :
Role of yield management in fabless-foundry partnerships
Author :
Chatterjee, Arun ; Nurani, Raman K. ; Seshadri, Sridhar ; Shanthikumar, J. George
Author_Institution :
KLA-Tencor Corp., San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
In the semiconductor industry, the fabless-foundry partnership business is expected to reach $68 billion by the end of this century. The majority of the growth in sales is expected to be in the sub-0.5 micron technologies. Given the rate of growth and the emerging complex technology challenges for the future generation products, large investment in capital, time, effort have to be dedicated for ensuring successful partnership outcomes. In this paper, we emphasize the importance of yield management in establishing successful partnership between fabless firms and wafer foundries, and present game theoretic models on coordination and some field observations
Keywords :
contracts; costing; game theory; integrated circuit yield; investment; management of change; technological forecasting; technology transfer; time management; contracting; coordination; emerging complex technology challenges; fabless firms; fabless-foundry partnerships; future generation products; game theoretic models; growth in sales; investment in capital; models; pricing; semiconductor industry; successful partnership outcomes; technology transfer; wafer foundries; yield improvement; yield management role; Contracts; Electronics industry; Foundries; Game theory; Investments; Marketing and sales; Process design; Product design; Semiconductor process modeling; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference Proceedings, 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3752-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISSM.1997.664614
