Case Study of a Multinational Intra-firm Technology Transfer in the IC-Industry

Abstract

Due to the rapidly growing market for IC’s continues, extension of semiconductor manufacturing sites (wafer fabs) are necessary. Companies built new fabs and have to transfer the manufacturing technology to there. The question is how to do that practically. A case study on a technology transfer in the IC industry was performed and interesting insight gained. A set of KPI’s is defined to evaluate the grade of success of the project. By an in depth evaluation of the project setup and a comparison with suggestions from the literature explanations for positive and negative results could be found. The overall positive result of the transfer project is explained by following the recommendations from the literature. To further improve, a suggestion for future projects is that the overall project leader has to be located at the receiving site in order to have better control.