Benefits and Risks of Federal Funding for Sematech
Benefits and Risks of Federal Funding for Sematech

Author: Philip C. Webre

Publisher:

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 9781437903102

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Sematech is a proposed industrywide research consortium aimed at advancing the technology with which semiconductors are manufactured. In 1987, the Congress was to decide whether the fed. gov¿t. would participate in the consortium, and what form that participation would take. This report analyzes the potential benefits and risks of fed. involvement in Sematech. Contents: (1) Introduction: The Public Interest in the Semiconductor Industry; Federal Support in 1987; (2) Overview of the Semiconductor Industry in 1987; (3) The Semiconductor Industry and the Public Interest; (4) Evaluation of the Sematech Proposal. Appendixes: (A) Fed. Spending on Semiconductor R&D; (B) Introduction to Semiconductors. Tables and figures.

Securing the Future
Securing the Future

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2003-05-08

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0309168120

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Based on the deliberations of a high-level international conference, this report summarizes the presentations of an exceptional group of experts, convened by Intel's Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore and SEMATECH's Chairman Emeritus William Spencer. The report documents the critical technological challenges facing this key industry and the rapid growth in government-industry partnerships overseas to support centers of semiconductor research and production in national economies. Importantly, the report provides a series of recommendations designed to strengthen U.S. research in disciplines supporting the continued growth of semiconductor industry, an industry which has made major contributions to the remarkable increases in productivity in the U.S. economy.

The Machine in Me
The Machine in Me

Author: Gary Lee Downey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1136679200

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Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, he documents the everyday power of technology's dominant image in our society, a force widely regarded as monolithically progressive. The Machine in Me will lead the reader to understand how deeply connected we are to The Machine and how beneficial it would be for us to really understand ourselves and machines as partially configured of the other--we as part machine, machines as part human. In this way, we can begin to see both the power and limitations of technology.

The Internationalization of U.S. Manufacturing
The Internationalization of U.S. Manufacturing

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1990-02-01

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 030904331X

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On the basis of discussions and analysis of the current environment for international competition, this book was written to dispel misconceptions regarding the motivating forces behind internationalization and, therefore, to improve understanding of both the challenges and the opportunities of a global market and production base. Important consequences of internationalization for both manufacturers and national policy are described. The volume provides an assessment of what it takes to be successful as manufacturers and as a nation in the international competitive environment.