Publications

August 2008
Teaching Note

System on a Chip 2008: Global Unichip Corp. (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

Teaching Note for [608159] and [609001]. View Details

Keywords: Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Industry Structures; Technology; Semiconductor Industry

February 2006 (Revised June 2007)
Case

Atheros Communications

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren Barley

Managers at Atheros, a leading provider of wireless local area network chipsets, must decide whether to join a special interest group (SIG) proposed by Intel to end an impasse over standards for the 802.11n (11n), the next generation of "Wi-Fi" technology. Two factions... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Standards; Wireless Technology; Semiconductor Industry; United States

June 2000
Case

Intel Capital: The Berkeley Networks Investment

By: Henry W. Chesbrough and David Lane

Discusses how Intel Corp. uses corporate venture capital to explore new technologies in new markets. Intel combines external investments with internal research and development. View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Investment; Research and Development; Semiconductor Industry

September 1999 (Revised May 2005)
Case

Taiwan: "Only the Paranoid Survive"

By: Bruce R. Scott and James R. Matthews

Taiwan has enjoyed remarkable growth since 1950. This case presents differing views of the role and contribution of the state in this process. Then it explores recent industrial policy in semiconductors. View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Business and Government Relations; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan

March 1992 (Revised June 1999)
Teaching Note

Solagen: Process Improvement in the Manufacture of Gelatin, Teaching Note

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

Teaching Note for (9-687-020). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

January 1995
Supplement

Intel's Pentium: When the Chips Are Down (B)

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

May 1989 (Revised June 2005)
Teaching Note

Intel Corporation 1988 (TN)

By: David B. Yoffie

meaching Note for (9-389-063) and (9-389-136). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

February 1989 (Revised July 1989)
Case

JESSI (The Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative)

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

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13 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

semiconductors and software, but monetization of IP only works there because of some very specific conditions. You need to have a very modular knowledge base; that is, you need to be able to break up a "big puzzle" into its... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

07 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

industry, and even a country to the head of the class almost overnight, said Kiyotaka Fujii, president and CEO of SAP Japan Co., Ltd. That lesson was learned by Japan in the 1980s, when it was rising to prominence in some segments of the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

July 1993
Teaching Note

Intel Corporation, 1992 TN

By: Kenneth A. Froot

Teaching Note for (9-292-106). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry; United States

September 2009
Case

Intel NBI: Image Components Organization

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston

The Image Components Organization (ICO) was an internal venture that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought to initially develop and sell a high performance integrated CMOS image sensor module for cellular phones. ICO's opening assumptions were that it... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Production; Failure; Diversification; Semiconductor Industry

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May 2008 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Intel NBI: Handheld Graphics Organization

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston

The Handheld Graphics Organization (HGO) was an internal start-up under Intel's New Business Incubator program. The unit designed a graphics co-processor for the handheld PDA market, to be sold with Intel's Xscale processor. Though NBI ventures were designed for a high... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Semiconductor Industry; United States

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May 2008
Teaching Note

Radical Collaboration: IBM Microelectronics Joint Development Alliances (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King

Teaching Note for [608121]. View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

October 2005
Case

Intel Corporation 2005

By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind

Buoyed by strong recent sales growth but humbled by failed strategic bets and other missteps, Intel in 2005 initiated a major reorganization. Under its new CEO, Paul Otellini, the company shifted toward a "platform" model, inspired by the success of its Centrino... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Alignment; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Semiconductor Industry

February 2001 (Revised February 2002)
Background Note

Leader's (Dis)Advantage, The

Provides a rigorous description of the economic dynamics that may produce inherent advantages for large and/or first-mover firms within an industry, as well as those factors that may result in disadvantages for such leading firms. The leader advantages discussed... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Semiconductor Industry