Making microchips : policy, globalization, and economic restructuring in the semiconductor industry...
Making microchips : policy, globalization, and economic restructuring in the semiconductor industry...
Making microchips : policy, globalization, and economic restructuring in the semiconductor industry / Jan Mazurek.
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Cambridge, MA ; London : MIT Press, c1999.
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N338.47621/5
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Nicholas A. Ashford -- 1. Smaller, Faster, Better -- 2. Hitting a Moving Target -- 3. Real Men Have Fabs -- 4. Environmental Challenges of Restructuring -- 5. Cleaner, Cheaper, Smarter? -- 6. The XL Files -- 7. Silicon Evolution.
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Publisher
Cambridge, MA ; London : MIT Press, c1999.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c1999.
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In Making Microchips, Jan Mazurek examines the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan. Globalization, economic restructuring, and changing manufacturing processes in this rapidly growing industry present difficult new questions...
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Making microchips : policy, globalization, and economic restructuring in the semiconductor industry / Jan Mazurek.
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Urban and industrial environments.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-237) and index.
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c1999.
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N338.47621/5
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74VvNVJOKW4b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvNVJOKW4b
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ISBN
0262632705 (pbk.)
9780262133456 (alk. paper)
0262133458 (alk. paper)
9780262632706 (pbk.)
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338.476213815
338.4762138152
338.4762138
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991012919039702626
