Many of these challenges can be readily addressed by leveraging the Internet for IC design and manufacturing. With silicon services and outsourcing proliferating on a seemingly daily basis, an online product and services locator is critical. Neither is practical in today's business climate. The Internet is the answer for streamlining and managing the IC design chain and re-integrating various factions of the semiconductor industry. It can be a viable solution to meet the industry's restrictive business challenges.
Several steps are necessary to properly utilize the Internet.
Bringing the community together will affect the efficiency of semiconductor players at every level and every market segment. The next step involves building infrastructure for web-based design and collaboration. For example, offering secured and timely access to critical data, or utilizing application-hosting infrastructure to offer online access to design tools. Our industry is made up of some of the best minds around today. We've solved other industries' productivity problems and inefficiencies in recent years, while we've neglected our own.