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2023 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
9. The Semiconductor Industry – Past, Present, and Future
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Abstract
Having spent eight chapters dissecting everything from transistor structures to System Architecture, we should be well familiarized with semiconductor technology. The question now begs, how does all this technology play into the big picture? Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the semiconductor industry has faced two ongoing major challenges – rising design costs and increasing manufacturing costs. These two challenges have driven the field from fully integrated design companies to multi-faceted fabless design models we see today. In the following sections, we outline drivers of design costs and manufacturing overhead followed by a discussion of the transformation of the semiconductor ecosystem over the last fifty years.