Query: THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY WILL SOON ABANDON ITS PURSUIT OF MOORE’S LAW.

Candidate papers:

author_names: M Mitchell Waldrop
title: The chips are down for Moore's law
venue: Nature
year: 2016

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author_names: John Kowalski
title: Industry Location Shift through Technological Change A Study of the US Semiconductor Industry (1947 1987)
year: 2012

abstract: Electrifying in its simplicity like all great breakthroughs COMPETITIVE STRATEGY captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Author Michael Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies lowest cost, differentiation, and focus which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalised Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors and choose competitive positions. COMPETITIVE STRATEGY has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter century.
author_names: Michael E Porter
title: Competitive strategy techniques for analyzing industries and competitors with a new introduction
year: 1980

author_names: Ronald Bailey
title: Scrutinizing Industry Funded Science: The Crusade Against Conflicts of Interest
year: 2008

abstract: This Article offers a systematic examination of trade law's responses to the emergence of China as a major player in world trade. As an intricate set of rules written largely prior to the advent of the China era, trade law had to readjust to the powerful newcomer in ways that eventually changed trade law itself. This Article investigates these changes in four major areas of trade law: antidumping, countervailing duties, safeguards, and managed trade. In almost all of those areas, trade law witnessed a protectionist shift against Chinese products at the expense of sound, consistent principles. But, at the same time, trade law has corrected some of the most egregious protectionist policies on China. These adaptations on the part of trade law tell a story of how an organic legal system evolves in response to changing external circumstances. This Article concludes that at least as an initial assessment, trade law has been rather successful in accommodating China in the new world trade order and has preserved the structural stability of the world trade system without deviating too far from its core principles.
author_names: Wentong Zheng
title: Trade Law's Responses to the Rise of China
year: 2016

abstract: Reports in 1982 of polymers ablated and etched by excimer laser radiation mark the founding of laser microfabrication as a technology that in the intervening period has matured into a manufacturing process used by a diverse range of industries. This paper reviews the historical developments of laser microfabrication, highlights some of its current important industrial applications and takes a forward look at possible developments of the technology.
author_names: Malcolm C Gower
title: Laser microfabrication in industry perspectives from the past, present and future
venue: SPIE LASE
year: 2008

abstract: Over the last two decades 'nanotechnology' a term applied to both scientific research and disparate new and emerging technologies, has become an important focus of science policy and controversy. Its emergence has been marked by hyperbolic expectations of breakthroughs and general prominence of representations of the future (e.g. speculative visions) The purpose of this study was to assess the evolving trajectory and dynamics of nanotechnology in Australia, with a focus on these future oriented aspects and the promising of new technological options. Additional aims were to investigate the associated social shaping, i.e. taking place 'upstream' and disputes about nanotechnology development. An interdisciplinary approach was used drawing primarily on literature from science and technology studies (STS) on relevant socio technical dynamics (such as the role of expectations in and about science and technology) and 'science and society' as well as environmental politics and innovation studies. Relevant data was primarily gained through anonymous interviews with 30 'opinion leaders' from relevant sectors (i.e. research community, industry and research commercialisation, public sector, and civil society) This data was combined with publicly available information on nanotechnology activities and investment. This research shows in contrast to most reports and analysis that a significant weakening of nanotechnology expectations and decline in commercialisation activity has emerged. Expectations and assessments of nanotechnology by proponents and opponents also sharply diverge in relation to its potential roles in addressing environmental problems, such as climate change, and other sustainability issues. In this way, responses to nanotechnology have in part been shaped by environmental discourses, which influence the framing of these problems and associated desired solutions by engaged actors and consideration of technological risks. Also identified are pressures that led to overpromising which contributed to problematic socio political dynamics hindering efforts to realise these promises. The identified trajectory and dynamics: support STS research theorising the governance of technology by expectations (a 'de facto' form, i.e. extending beyond formal policy/regulatory interventions) is consistent with recent STS research that has identified the increasing importance of broader 'innovation governance' aimed at more purposeful, sociallyagreed technological choices and innovation trajectories; and, indicates how, and in part why, the Federal Government's 'responsible development' of nanotechnology objectives have not been achieved to date. The identified drivers of controversy are also likely to lead to future disputes in additional emerging areas of science and technology (e.g. synthetic biology)
author_names: Stephen Mcgrail
title: Promising, contesting and abandoning nanotechnology: dynamics of unrealised promises, expectations, and engagement with nanotechnology in the Australian context
year: 2011

abstract: On different levels and with different strategic importance, business managers face technology decisions every day. These decisions concern not only which technologies to use, but also which ones n
author_names: Jens Hultman
title: Rethinking adoption Information and communications technology interaction processes within the Swedish automobile industry
year: 2007

abstract: The future of integrated electronics is the future of electronics itself. The advantages of integration will bring about a proliferation of electronics, pushing this science into many new areas. Integrated circuits will lead to such wonders as home computers or at least terminals connected to a central computer automatic controls for automobiles, and personal portable communications equipment. The electronic wristwatch needs only a display to be feasible today. But the biggest potential lies in the production of large systems. In telephone communications, integrated circuits in digital filters will separate channels on multiplex equipment. Integrated circuits will also switch telephone circuits and perform data processing. Computers will be more powerful, and will be organized in completely different ways. For example, memories built of integrated electronics may be distributed throughout the machine instead of being concentrated in a central unit. In addition, the improved reliability made possible by integrated circuits will allow the construction of larger processing units. Machines similar to those in existence today will be built at lower costs and with faster turnaround.
author_names: Gordon E Moore
title: Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits
venue: Proceedings of the IEEE
year: 1998

abstract: Japan U.S. Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission) Cornell East Asia Program German Academic Exchange Service
author_names: Aaron Stephen Moore
title: The Technological Imaginary of Imperial Japan, 1931 1945
year: 2006