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ENGINEERING COLLABORATION ADDS MILLIONS TO THE BOTTOM LINE IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY

AMR Research – Vinay Asgekar

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, May 04, 2001 – In the current economic slowdown, chip designers like AMCC are investing in new generation of products to stimulate demand. With heavy design activity, taking the design to production quickly and keeping the yields high translates to millions of dollars for such semiconductor products. Users of Syntricity's dataConductor are scoring high in yield improvement and early production ramp ups.

The engineering process to take a semiconductor product from design to production with high yields is very data centric. It involves analysis and distribution of enormous amounts of data collected at several process steps, across regionally dispersed sites. Recently, a large semiconductor user of dataConductor realized savings of $2M within the first month of implementation by adopting collaborative practices in yield enhancement. AMCC has reduced its cycle time for yield resolution significantly across its global facilities.

The dataConductor is unique in its approach. It is its knowledge repository, a data-binder approach to create intelligent engineering data packages, and seamless delivery make it stand out. Through these features, companies like AMCC are analyzing the engineering data quickly, sharing the analysis across partners over the Web and driving a global process.