SEMATECH Totally Explained

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SEMATECH (SEmiconductor MAnufacturing TECHnology) is a non-profit consortium that performs basic research into semiconductor manufacturing. It was conceived of in 1986, formed in 1987, and began operating in 1988 as a partnership between the United States government and 14 U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers to solve common manufacturing problems and regain competitiveness for the U.S. semiconductor industry that had been surpassed by Japanese industry in the mid-1980s. SEMATECH was funded over 5 years by public subsidies coming from the US DoD via DARPA for a total of $500 million.
Following a determination by SEMATECH's Board of Directors to eliminate matching funds from the U.S. government after 1996, the organization's focus shifted from the U.S. semiconductor industry to the larger international semiconductor industry, abandoning the initial U.S. government-initiative. During the mid 90's the organization's name was changed to International Sematech to reflect its international composition and in September of 2004, changed back to SEMATECH. Nearly half of the 15 current member companies in the SEMATECH consortia are non-US corporations.
SEMATECH currently has three subsidiaries, the Advanced Technology Development Facility (ATDF) established in 2004, the Advanced Materials Research Center (AMRC), and the International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI).

Members

Members as of October 2006:

AMD, USA
Freescale, USA
HP, USA
IBM, USA
Infineon/Qimonda, Germany
Intel, USA
Micron, USA
NEC, Japan
Panasonic, Japan
NXP (Philips), Netherlands
Renesas, Japan
Samsung, South Korea
Spansion, USA
Texas Instruments, USA
TSMC, Taiwan

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