Making Microchips
Subtitle: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Contributors: Nicholas Askounes Ashford (Foreword)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780262632706
Subjects: Central government policies; Hi-tech manufacturing industries; Pollution & threats to the environment; Computer Industry (Economic Aspects); Occupational Health And Safety; Business & Economics; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Ireland; Taiwan; USA; Computer Industry; Environmental Science; Public Policy - General; Science / Environmental Science; Industrial Health & Safety; Industries - General
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.