Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 15:26:41 -0400 
From: Schitt Laowattana <sl2k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Future Technology in EIBI in Thailand 

    There are many people requesting information on electronics-based
industries in Thailand.  I am voluntarily posting information I have in
my hands:Volume 5 "Capability Development for Electronics and
Information Technology-Based Industries(EIBI)" by Thailand Development
Research Institute.  My ultimate goal is, of course, to inform our human
resource aborad about the current situations of the national S&TD  such
that they can contribute to the progress of "Ban Rao" as much as
possible.
 
    I also would like to request all three national centers to appoint
some people for S&T information service.  Their main responsibilities
are to provide S&T information to the net and to interact with other
Thai professionals. By this way, they can obtain S&T information in a
professional manner(quick and accurate).

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                Future Technoloy in EIBI in Thailand
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1) Materials and devices

    The main material will be silicon, galium arsenide and
superconductors which are the basis for the various electronics devices
such as transisters, diodes, display devices etc.

2) Microelectronics and VLSIs

    Integrated circuits technology may be divided into two major areas:
the fabrication technology and the design.  A country like Thailand can
enter in to design quite readily as it does not need so large capital
investment.  It can be used to produce the increasing popularly type of
integrated circuits known as the ASIC(Application Specifiic Integrated
Circuits) which bring out such a dedicated microchip called digital
single processing (DSP) chip.

3) Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Man-machine Interface

    This technology will be integrated in probably every electronics and
information-based products.  The forerunner of this AI technology are
the knowlegde-based expert systems, which will imitate the various human
experts, and the machine translation which will translate texts and
speech among different natuaral language.  Other kinds are man-machine
interface technology such as voice, vision, hand-written characters.

4) Opto-electronics

    Outstanding among this opto-electronics technology are optical
fiber, and laser which will generate for example communication industry,
industrial electronics and medical equipment, computer storage and
printing equipments etc.

5) CAD/CAE/CAM

    CAD/CAE/CAM are probably the technology that increase the industrial
productivity.  The design, engineering and manufacturing will be faster,
more accurate, higher complexity when using this technology.

6) Automation and Robotics

    This technology is also seen as the efficient way to increase the
productivity.  Robotics and automation will make an industrialized
country even more competitive.

7) Software

    The future products of EIBI will mostly have microprocessor as an
integral part.  It is most obvious that these products will always
feature the programmability.  Hence software technology at all level are
necessary for the future.

    the microelectronics and VLSI technology is for example seen as
essential for the production.  To increase reliability and economy of
scale, the board assembly firms will have to adopt the hierarchical
technology of SMD(surface mounted devices), hybrid IC, semi-custom IC
respecitively.  AI is seen as the added value for the product design to
be competeitive in the future market.

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Posted by


Schitt(DJ)  Laowattana

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Permanent Address in Thailand:

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Tel. No. 428-3374, 427-4421 and 4270151-9 Ext. 461
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