N             N+1          N+2           N+3           N+4
98                    01                   04                   07                   10                   13
Text Box: Increasing Risk
Increasing Risk
Text Box: Increasing Cost of Research
Increasing Cost of Research
Industry
•Largely company specific
•Product emphasis
SRC
•Narrow technology choices
•Identify path to commercialization
•Emphasize technology transfer
•Student emphasis
•Customer fee allocation
•
INDUSTRIAL LABS
•Bell Labs
•IBM Research
•GE Research
SEMATECH & SUPPLIERS
•Largely tool specific
•Manufacturing  Efficiency
•Industry standards
Product Generation
Semiconductor Research Gap
RESEARCH GAP
Development
Exploratory Research
Applied Research
Source: Sonny Maynard, MARCO, 1998