Travelling On The Silicon Road

A couple of contrasting views over the fab technology direction that India should follow was reported from the ISA Vision Summit 2007. While one view stated that it’ll be prudent for India to initially establish manufacturing capacities in older technologies and address those requirements which are not addressed by the more competitive larger multinational companies. Else it will fall prey to overcapacity problem.

A conflicting view presented some of the alternate views of addressing the overcapacity situation. In India’s case, it can be by focusing on technologies which are driven by applications of the products required by the local market i.e. applications are the fab techno drivers and not any predetermined process geometry.

An interesting exchange of ideas reported in Electronics News recently.

DFM is the bridge between design and manufacturing. Most of the tools in the DFM arena are now towards the manufacturing side i.e. improving OPC while a selected few are focusing on the design part of the bridge. I agree with the viewpoint that in the consolidation phase, it will be these selected few who stand a chance to survive. Moving from binary rules based info to distribution information coming from manufacturing is not a smooth transition…..

An interesting exchange of ideas reported in Electronics News recently.

DFM is the bridge between design and manufacturing. Most of the tools in the DFM arena are now towards the manufacturing side i.e. improving OPC while a selected few are focusing on the design part of the bridge. I agree with the viewpoint that in the consolidation phase, it will be these selected few who stand a chance to survive. Moving from binary rules based info to distribution information coming from manufacturing is not a smooth transition…..