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| CURRENT ISSUE: FALL 2004 VOLUME 3 |
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 | COVER STORY Small Company, GIANT Production Challenge Startups are often long on design brains and short on manufacturing muscle, so Flarion turned to a partner that was big in size. Full story |  |
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 |  | Special Delivery How Amkor's packaging proficiency helped Cisco's switches. Full story |  |  |  | Design Chain Disasters Four ways they're caused—and three ways to avoid them. Full story |  |  |  | Staying Ahead of the RFID Wave Philips collaborates to design its chips into a state-of-the-art retail system. Full story |  |
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 |  | EDITOR'S NOTE Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts Inherent in the concept of a design chain is partnershipworking with companies that bring crucial skills and insights to a project. Ideally, the combination of the partners' talents means that the whole of their collaboration becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Full story
|  |  |  | EXECUTIVE PROFILE The Partner Everybody Needs Even with little experience in semiconductor processing, Jackson Hu is a logical choice to lead foundry UMC. Full story
|  |  |  | CORE TRENDS A Delayed 90-nm Surprise Why designers need to spend the next year focusing on yield. Full story
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