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Even a casual observer of the semiconductor
world quickly discovers the daunting financial and technical challenges confronting our industry:
So what is the solution to the funding gap
for basic research? I believe it can be found in
two areas: new R&D funding sources and coordinated
collaboration among current researchers.
Clearly, our industry’s once-evolutionary pace of technology innovation has gone from evolutionary to revolutionary. Much is needed to stay on the industry productivity curve: new, high-k material to avoid excessive gate leakage current; low-k materials to meet conductivity and permitivity requirements; pellicles, and defect-free mask for next-generation lithography; and many others.[2]
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