Fabless-foundry partnership: Models and analysis of coordination issues

IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-52

  Chatterjee, Arun ^a   Gudmundsson, Dadi ^a   Nurani, Raman K ^a   Seshadri, Sridhar ^b   Shanthikumar, J George ^c  

^a KLA TENCOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Foundries; Game theory; Pricing; Yield management

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CONTRACTS; GAME THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

FABLESS-FOUNDRY PARTNERSHIPS; YIELD MANAGEMENT;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

EID: 0033079190     PISSN: 08946507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/66.744521     Document Type: Article

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