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Session IV: Challenges for Materials in the 21st Century
Pages 14-19

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... semiconductor market share worldwide can be equated to about 17,000 jobs. Specific successes include development of a single set of qualifications for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the establishment of software standards, the improvement of existing equipment, and the development of new diffusion, deposition, ant!
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... The criteria developed for the Malcolm Baldrige Award are used as the foundation of Sematech's quality programs. Skeptics and critics state that, because global companies form global alliances with global competitors, there is no need for national support for this partnership between government ant} industry.
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... A year or so ago, only some 5% of the technical resources went into this highly valued sector of services, applications, ant} solutions, whereas about 40% went into the products and software businesses. Semiconductor technologies and storage received most of the balance despite the fact that there are fewer streams of technology to develop ant!
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... The enormous bandwidth of fiber opens up the possibility of transmitting a vast amount of data. The future of the telecommunications and computing business is a combined information infrastructure enterprise: multimedia network computing, electronic markets, multimedia information services, and multimedia home services.
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... Total quality management is essential when (leafing with the various teams in a big project like the 777. Boeing used to think its core competencies involved objects such as wings.
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... Today the computer and consumer electronics markets dominate but over the next 20 years all but the military market will grow to a level of respectability while the military will disappear into the background noise. Display-based 1993 SSSC Forum Proceedings equipment represents approximately two-thircls of the equipment market enabled by key optoelectronic components.
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