Emerging Business Trends in the Microelectronics Industry

Saha, Samar K.

doi:10.4236/ojbm.2016.41012

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“…Members of this alliance include worldwide semiconductor firms, and the alliance provides analysis regarding technology trends, market trends, and financial data. It also provides accurate data and insights regarding the market and technology [12]. We selected 57 fabless semiconductor firms.…”

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“…Data regarding product families and market segments are gathered and processed based on the information from the GSA [12]. We summarized the data in Table 2.…”

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“…IDM and foundry firms require large work forces and capital for fabrication. Fabless semiconductor firms only design, so they do not need capital and workforce, which are required for fabrication [12].…”

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Fabless Semiconductor Firms’ Financial Performance Determinant Factors: Product Platform Efficiency and Technological Capability

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Kook

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The semiconductor industry is experiencing a rapid change since new markets and new technologies have emerged to give insights to product innovation. The semiconductor industry is now specializing into the integrated device manufacturer (IDM), fabless, and foundry sectors. We investigated the determinant factors that affect the financial performance of firms in the fabless sector, which is the most technology-intensive and product-oriented sector among the three sectors. The correlation among technological capability, product platform, and financial performance is analyzed by structural equation modeling. The data includes 17,256 patents from 2005 to 2014 and financial data from 2012 to 2016 from 57 firms that run businesses in the fabless sector. Specifically, technological capability includes technological assets, technology breadth, and technology depth. New product development occurs by applying product platform efficiency. Financial performance includes growth and profitability. The results show that advancing product platform efficiency brings positive effects to financial performance. Also, increasing technological depth and technological assets not only improve product platform efficiency, but also bring positive effects to financial performance. In addition, technological depth affected growth positively, and technological breadth affected profitability positively. The results show the direction that new product development strategy needs to take.

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“…Data regarding product families and market segments are gathered and processed based on the information from the GSA [12]. We summarized the data in Table 2.…”

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Fabless Semiconductor Firms’ Financial Performance Determinant Factors: Product Platform Efficiency and Technological Capability

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Kook

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“…One of the recent trends in the microelectronics industry is the transitioning of the "pure-play," manufacturing only, dedicated wafer foundries to complete integrated circuit (IC) product development turn-key solution providers [1]- [6].…”

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“…In today's foundry business model, a customer support team is organized to offer customer-centric technology customization, design and layout verification, characterization and modeling, packaging, and so on by acquiring relevant core competencies and tools for an efficient customer relationship management [1]- [6]. In a technology customization project, computer-aided design (CAD) tools and simulation methodology can be used for an efficient and effective customization of an IC fabrication technology as well as characterization and modeling of that customer-centric technology [17]- [24].…”

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Computer-Aided Technology Customization Projects

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2017

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This paper presents a methodology to assess the quantitative benefit of a computer-aided technology customization project in wafer foundries. As the dedicated semiconductor foundries transition to complete integrated circuit (IC) product development solution providers, offering customer-centric IC fabrication technology to fables customers has become crucial for foundry business model. In order to support customers' niche product-line, computer-aided design (CAD) tools are used for a rapid and cost-effective customization of foundry's core IC fabrication technology. In this paper, the efficiency and effectiveness of CAD in IC fabrication technology customization projects are evaluated by an analytical model. The data obtained by the model, clearly, shows a significant reduction in technology customization cycle time and cost by using CAD in a technology customization project compared to the conventional practice.

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