Document Type
Closed Project
Publication Date
Spring 2012
Instructor
Tugrul Daim
Course Title
Decision Making
Course Number
ETM 530/630
Subjects
Semiconductors--Design and construction, Semiconductor industry -- Location -- Decision making, Hierarchical Decision Model
Abstract
Site selection for a fabless firm has been a concern in high technology environment and economic development for global semiconductor companies. The process of site selection for firms that are involved in research and development is influenced by many criteria. The model developed highlights the most significant criteria that have an impact on the fabless site selection. Such important criteria are defined to be as: engineering talent, market development, policy, cost, and communication. Moreover, in this study, these criteria are fed into a Hierarchical Decision Model (HDM) along with their associated sub-criteria to select the most attractive site from several potential sites including San Jose, Portland, Hsinchu, Tokyo, Haifa, and Stockholm, for a fabless semiconductor company. A brief background on fabless firms worldwide with all the criteria and sub criteria is discussed. The pairwise comparison method is utilized to have the experts’ opinions from the semiconductor industry on the fabless site selection. Additionally, due to some factual and objective data existed in the literature such as those related to the engineering talent and marketing development, the researchers of this framework extracted information from various sources and normalized accordingly to be incorporated in the HDM model. The findings using pairwise comparison indicated that San Jose, Portland and Hsinchu are the most attractive locations for fabless firms.
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Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/21992
Citation Details
Jeena, Niharika; Hagos, Meles; Tsai, Charles; Xu, Yuan; and Khalifa, Zack, "Location Selection for Fabless Firms" (2012). Engineering and Technology Management Student Projects. 476.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/21992
Comments
This project is only available to students, staff, and faculty of Portland State University