Foundries and the Dawn of an Open IP Era T oday’s IC industry continues down a path of dis-integration it has followed for more than a decade—shifting from a vertical structure to a horizontal one, with many specialized and focused segments comprising the industry value chain. This dis-integration facilitates the growth of system-on-chip (SOC) technology and enhances operational efficiency by s...

This paper presents the current tendency in automotive industry, analyses the influence into the Integrated Circuit (IC) design, and proposing project and process transferable solutions for overcoming some of the common problems.

The evaluation of innovation capability (IC) plays a key role in an age keen competition driven by modern technologies, since it enables organizations to review their management process and adjust corresponding policies. Moreover, the IC is, fact, multicriteria with high uncertainty, market environments competitors’ performance are both dynamic environment. Therefore, under uncertainty is vital...

What is the interaction between competition, R&D investments, and the financing choices of R&D-intensive firms? Motivated by existing theories, we hypothesize that as competition increases, R&D-intensive firms will: (1) increase R&D investment relative to assets-in-place that support existing products; (2) carry more cash; and (3) maintain less net debt. We provide causal evidence supporting th...

This paper presents a novel method to explore the relationship between dynamic mergers and evolution of industrial competition by introducing complex network tool. Taking the beer industry of China as an example, we establish Markets-Firms bipartite time series networks, weighted Markets-Firms time series networks and industrial competition time series networks by using the data from 1992 to 20...

Due to the rapid growth of consumer electronics market, there are urgent needs in effective execution of integrated circuit (IC) collaborative design projects and better utilization of silicon intellectual property (SIP) as design knowledge on a virtual design cyber-space. In order to provide IC industry a well-integrated design environment, this research proposes an integrated information plat...

Using both industry-specific data on 55 US industry sectors and an extensive range of macroeconomic variables, the authors compare the performance of nearest neighbour algorithms, OLS, and a number of two-stage models based on these two methods, when forecasting industry returns. As industry returns are a relatively under-researched area in the Finance literature, we also give a brief review of...