Let's get on with using the Internet on the fab floor

摘要

The semiconductor industry has been slow to overcome convention and embrace the Internet as a medium to enhance both supply and support, even though the semi sector continues to provide components supporting almost every other medium- and high-tech industry in the world. The industry is entering the information age slowly. Manufacturers have identified the need for paperless fabs for years yet remain constrained by their fear of providing Internet access (and the portal providing potential access to, and the loss of, proprietary information) on the manufacturing floor.