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Welcome to this site. The goal of this site is to form a "knowledge hub" for silicon executives as a resource to enhance the value of their own projects, companies and the industry in general. Below are a few areas of interest for this community.

Silicon Product Development Cost

The Silicon Product Development Cost page discusses the exponentially increasing cost of product development facing the silicon industry. This negative consequence of Moore's Law combined with the declining growth rate of the silicon industry is challenging the industry's ability to provide return on investment. Some overview metrics of the semiconductory industry can be viewed here at the Semiconductor Market Overview.

Funding Considerations for Silicon Development

Given the challenges presented by the topic above there is a significant and increasing risk that product innovation and development will slow dramatically in the silicon industry. Such a crisis was faced in the days when it became clear that the cost of a fab increased to the point it became a significant barrier to entry, potentially reducing the bandwidth of new idea flow. A structural changed occurred with the advent of the fabless semiconductor model. Given that the average cost of product development at 90nm and below now approaches or exceeds the cost of building a fab when TSMC was established in 1987, a similar structural change is required. Funding Considerations for Silicon Development develops ideas that may seed such a structural change on the funding side of the equation.

Communication Networks and Service Providers

An evolving knowledge base on the evolution of the future IP network and it's evolving state of deployment worldwide is available at the Future Network page.

Other Resources

Global Semiconductor Association
Wikipedia on Fabless Semiconductors
Silicon Company Tracker
Communication IC Stocks

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