Making Microchips
Subtitle: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: December 11, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780262133456
Subjects: Central government policies; Hi-tech manufacturing industries; Pollution & threats to the environment; Computer Industry (Economic Aspects); Semiconductors; Business & Economics; Technology & Industrial Arts; Business/Economics; Ireland; Taiwan; USA; Environmental Science; Public Policy - General; Science / Environmental Science; Industries - General; Computer Industry; Employees; Health and hygiene; Integrated circuits industry; Semiconductor industry
First sentence: In 1996, in an experiment aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of environmental laws, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Intel Corporation entered into an agreement allowing Intel to make changes in the production of microchips more "quickly" than its foreign competitors.