Economists have been delivering dire warnings lately that the semiconductor industry will soon no longer be able to continue making IC devices smaller, faster, and cheaper at the same pace it has maintained over the past 40 years. The problem, they explain, is not technological in nature, but rather the result of an inability to pay for the research needed to achieve the needed innovations. Now, a new survey of the leading executives in the industry supports this claim by quantifying the impending research gap and explores coping strategies that a growing number of companies are finding they have no choice but to adopt.
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