The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the United States suggests that semiconductor prices have barely been falling in … implications for gauging the rate of innovation in the semiconductor sector …

Sparked by concerns about their shrinking market share, 14 leading U.S. semiconductor producers, with the financial … -- in 1987. Using Compustat data on all U.S. semiconductor firms, we estimate the effects of Sematech on members' R …&D spending, profitability, investment, and productivity. In so doing we test two hypotheses: the `commitment' hypothesis that …

A coalition of well-organized semiconductor producers along with compliant government agencies (USTR and the Commerce … in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent of the Japanese semiconductor market for foreign firms within five … protectionism.' This paper examines how the U.S. semiconductor industry became the beneficiary of this unique and unprecedented …

This paper has examined the factors that affect the pattern of introduction of semiconductor innovations into the …

dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital …