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Appendix A: Electronics Industry Workshop
Appendix A: Electronics Industry Workshop
Pages 79-90
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The fourth session was devoted to a discussion of the characteristics of the electronics industry that distinguish it from other industries and the importance of road maps and linkages among primary industries, supplier industries, and universities in the development of advanced technologies. MAGNETIC HARD-DISK DRIVE INDUSTRY The HDD market in 1997 was estimated to be $35 billion.
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1:00 p.m. Road Map Development and Maintenance, Paul Peercy, SEMI/ SEMA TECH 1:20 p.m.
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electronics to detect data at an error rate of less than 10-~2 errors/bit. The first three components which include disk substrates and surface overcoats, magnetic film media, wearresistant overcoats, topical lubricants, head carriers (sliders)
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acting as an industry spokesgroup. The following characteristics of the HDD industry were identified by individual workshop participants as contributors to the introduction of advances in materials and processes: · competition in an industry that produces high-technology products · extraordinary improvements in performance fueled by materials innovations · extensive industry-university collaborations facilitated by NSIC · strong university centers focusing on storage technologies, often staffed by faculty with industry experience · NSIC-developed technology road maps that identify challenges for continued progress · no regulatory issues to interfere with efforts to develop new technology high employee mobility, which provides rapid equilibration of technology .
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The 1997 road map identified six difficult challenges facing the semiconductor industry that will require major initiatives to overcome: (1) continued affordable scaling; (2)
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These links could be improved in several ways: addressing integrated-product issues early; promoting personnel exchanges/ long-term visits; clearly defining objectives and milestones; providing adequate project reviews and industry mentors; and strengthening the industrial/university research community through participation in consortia and jointly sponsored con ferences. The development of material technology, which is essential to the microelectronics industry, is a high-risk, high-reward undertaking that requires vision and a long time span.
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The following factors were identified by workshop participants as inhibiting the introduction of materials and process advances: Technology road maps, even if they take a long-term view, are essentially evolutionary. Production conditions are difficult to duplicate in a university research environment because of the costly tooling or processing of real microelectronics fabrication facilities.
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The overall NEMI road map is a coordinated set of road maps for each of the following manufacturing system elements: packaging; board (circuit card) assembly; final product assembly; interconnection substrates; displays; energy storage systems; radio-frequency components; passive components; semiconductor devices; magnetic mass data storage; optical mass data storage; optoelectronics; factory information systems; modeling, simulation, and rapid prototyping; and test, inspection, and measurement.
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They identified four ways in which road maps could further technological development: · by defining the issues facing industries and gaps in technology · by coordinating all segments of the industry in the development process from fundamental research and development to final assembly · by providing a framework for industries and researchers to plan potential materials changes and technological innovations · by providing a level playing field among researchers and industries and lowering overall risk Consortia play two important roles in the road-mapping process: (1) providing neutral territory on which competing industries can meet to develop and maintain industrial road maps and (2)
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. Most participants felt that the linkages between the primary and supply companies were stronger in the magnetic-head industry and the chipmanufacturing industry than in the packaging industry.
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