The semiconductor industry was the first industry to embrace roadmapping. It saw the market erode due to Asian production and determined a need to define the status and future of the industry. Working under the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), a roadmap committee published the first semiconductor industry roadmap in 1992. The roadmap, titled the National Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (NTRS), now the International Technology Roadmap (ITRS) for Semiconductors, provided a 15-year outlook on the major trends of the semiconductor industry.
In this three-part CircuiTree 20th Anniversary Retrospective Series, industry veteran Dieter Bergman will walk you through the technology, business, and geographical drivers that have shaped our industry and serve as the roadmap for its future.
To note CircuiTree’s 20th year, we asked industry luminaries from around the world to provide their perspectives on the advancements, ups, and downs of the past 20 years and their predictions. If you would like to offer your own perspectives on the industry, contact senior editor Stephanie Church (stephanie@circuitree.com).
To mark CircuiTree’s 20th year, we have asked industry luminaries from around the world to provide you their perspectives on the advancements, ups, and downs of the past 20 years, as well as their predictions If you would like to offer your own perspective on the industry, contact senior editor Stephanie Church (stephanie@circuitree.com; 734-997-9235).
When Chris Jorgensen gave me a call and asked me to reflect on industry changes during the past 20 years on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of CircuiTree, I agreed on the premise that my account would be anecdotal, personal, and colored by my myopic view of the world of PWBs.
A great number of changes have taken place in our industry since CircuiTree was first published 20 years ago. We have seen a once-dominant North American PWB industry shrink to less than 12 percent of the world market. We have seen the emergence of China as the factory to the world. But what hasn’t changed much is the fact that PWBs can remain difficult to produce defect free.
by MichaelCarano
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