Chips 

This snapshot deals with the semiconductor sector and other component suppliers.

It covers -

• introduction
• key figures
• studies

     introduction

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     studies

Particular industry sectors have featured in major studies. Examples include From Silicon Valley To Singapore: Location & Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry (Stanford: Stanford Uni Press 2000) by David McKendrick, Richard Doner & Stephen Haggard.

Tim Jackson's Inside Intel: Andy Grove & the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company (New York: Dutton 1997) is an intelligent study by Financial Times journalist Tim Jackson. It is of particular value for its discussion of the relationship between the chip maker, Microsoft and the IBM clones.

Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive (online at the Intel site and in a paper version from Doubleday) and Swimming Across (New York: Warner 2001) offer a perspective from the top of the chip-maker red in tooth & claw that should be supplemented by works such as Leslie Berlin's The Man Behind The Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley (New York: Oxford Uni Press 2005).

Robert Miles's Corporate Comeback: The Story of Renewal and Transformation at National Semiconductor (London: Jossey-Bass 1997) is more substantial than the Amelio study noted above.

Perspectives are offered in To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Uni Press 2002) by Ross Bassett and Sematech: Saving the U.S. Semiconductor Industry (College Station: Texas A&M Uni Press 2000) by Larry Browning & Judy Shelter.




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