Securing the Future Regional and National Programs to Support the Semiconductor Industry (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Panel 3: European Partnerships
Panel 3: European Partnerships
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Wessner introduced the third panel to "what I think has so far been a remarkably rich discussion of some of the challenges facing partnerships around the world." He welcomed the European colleagues who like those from Asia had made substantial efforts to attend and introduced moderator Michael Borrus, who was a member of the steering committee under which this study was being carried out. INTRODUCTION Michael Borrus The Pethevich Group, LLC Mr.
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Europe's financial marketplace can now fund innovation in technology industries, he said, in ways it could not a decade ago. Another reason for Europe's emergence is the choice of common standards in wireless communications, which has helped to boost European manufacturers to the leading edge.
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Global competition developed between nations, such as the United States and Japan, and led to the famous U.S.-Japan trade agreement.23 The Europeans entered global competition not as a single European nation but as a patchwork of nations. 22The Kondratiev cycle, articulated by Nicolai Kondratiev in 1935, argues for the existence of an economic cycle of boom and bust that lasts approximately 60 years.
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However, the necessary infrastructure in education, human resources, research, and technology can and should be driven by global competition, which in turn is stimulated and supported by national programs. So competitive structures are an amalgamation of both, and sometimes contradictory because governments try to spend taxpayer money only on activities that benefit their nation.
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He then turned to MEDEA, an industry-initiated and industry-driven program supported by the national governments of 12 participating countries.24 Its objectives are to stimulate transborder R&D cooperation and to strengthen the global competitiveness of the European microelectronics industry in technology and in future applications. Focusing on Core Competences In semiconductors, he said, there are three core competences for technology: design techniques and libraries, CMOS-based technology platforms, and manufacturing technologies.
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The second important result was that the whole society gained awareness that collaboration is desirable and a productive use of taxpayer money, and that it also tends to increase employment. Moving to MEDEA Plus As a consequence of these results the participants decided to initiate a MEDEA Plus program in 2001 under the guideline, "system innovation on silicon." The objective of this sequel program goes beyond system-on-a-chip to include system-in-a-package.
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. 143 Address the main microelectronics challenges in silicon application platforms and enabling technologies following the international technology roadmap.
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For home networks one needs microelectronic components and software modules. The particular components include high-bandwidth internal networks, a high-bandwidth access network to the Internet, storage systems, and enhanced image sensors.
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1. For complex systems, the increasing cost of technology development calls for horizontal cooperation to share costs, reduce risks, and shorten time to market.
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Another example, he said, was that the IMEC institute in Belgium, a world leader in cooperative research, has already achieved very close cooperation with International SEMATECH on one major project. Strategic Challenges in the Semiconductor Industry He then turned to some aspects of government-industry R&D partnerships in Europe.
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By contrast, the national authorities, which provide most of the actual funding, cooperate at the European level through a formal certification process and by labeling national, bi-national, or multinational products with the so-called EUREKA label (European Network for Industrial R&D)
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to develop and manufacture advanced logic processes. The company also participates in a newly founded advanced DRAM consortium which brings together the major companies in the field, along with Intel.
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