• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.235-246
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• 2023

In the rapid technological development of artificial intelligence (AI), electric vehicles, and robots based the fourth industrial revolution, semiconductors determine the core performance, and semiconductor competitiveness is directly related to national competitiveness. However, the Korean semiconductor industry has continuously weakened its competitiveness in the system semiconductor field, excluding memory semiconductors, so in this study, a new smart contract basedblockchain business model to engage the global market, which is the most urgent need for the growth of Korean fabless system semiconductor industry in recession. F-SBM (Fabless-Smart contract based Blockchain Model) proposed. In this study, through the new F-SBM, it was verified how to engage new customers for fabless firms through smart contract based consortium blockchain regarding technology, economy, and reliability items of fabless. This model has great significance in improving the high entry barriers to engaging new customers for the long-cherished desire of the Korean fabless system semiconductor industry and deriving new growth solutions.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.41-48
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• 2017

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.62-72
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• 2022

AMD is an American fabless semiconductor company that designs CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and APUs. AMD is competing with Intel with its Ryzen CPUs and Nvidia with its Radeon GPUs. Since 2008, production has been consigned to TSMC, concentrating on semiconductor design. AMD is releasing various new products through continuous R&D which is the basis for its growth. AMD stock have recorded the highest rise among global semiconductor companies as sales and operating profit soared due to the strong sales of new products.

• IT SoC Magazine
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• s.13
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• pp.24-28
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• 2006

우리나라 Fabless업체들의 1사분기 실적은 올 한 해 전망을 낙관적으로 봐도 될 만한 모습을 보여 주었다. 2006년도 1사분기 평균매출액은 작년 동분기보다 29% 증가한 82억7천만원을 기록했으며, 전체 조사대상 업체의 70%가 전년 동분기보다 매출이 증가한 것으로 나타났다.

• IT SoC Magazine
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• s.16
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• pp.10-11
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• 2006

정보통신부가 주최하고 정보통신연구진흥원, IT-SoC협회, 한국전자통신연구원이 주관하는 ‘IT-SoC Fair 2006’이 지난 11월 1일~2일 양일간 COEX 인도양홀에서 개최되었다. 이 행사는 Fabless 반도체업체들이 중심이 되는 SoC(System on Chip)/IP(Silicon Intellectual Property)전문 전시회로 IT 핵심부품산업을 진흥하고자 하는 취지로 매년 개최되는 행사이다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.78-85
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• 2007

최근 핸드폰 및 정보통신기기가 급속도로 발전함에 따라 그 핵심 부품이라 할 수 있는 비메모리 반도체의 발전이 최대 관심사로 떠오르고 있다. 비메모리 반도체를 대표하는 SoC의 발전은 한 국가의 정보통신 발전 및 국가 경제에 지대한 영향을 미친다고 볼 수 있다. 삼성전자로 대표되는 메모리 위주의 우리나라 반도체 산업도 지난 몇 년간 SoC를 개발하는 국내 팹리스 업체들에 의해 많이 발전하였다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 세계적으로 블루오션 시장으로 각광 받고 있는 SoC의 필수 요소인 IP 시장의 경우, 현재 국내에서는 불모지나 다름 없다. 이에, 본 고에서는 세계 IP 시장의 현 상황을 분석해 보고 국내 팹리스 업체의 SoC 개발 현황과 IP의 활용도를 알아보도록 한다. 또한, 국내 IP 시장의 활성화를 위한 정부 지원 프로그램을 알아보고, 개발 및 시장 활성화를 위한 방안을 찾아보고자 한다.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.79-99
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• 2007

This paper evaluates the economic effect of the IT SoC Industrial Foundation Composition Project. The evaluation was done in three steps. The first step was to estimate the contribution effect of the fabless small and medium venture business' sales. The step includes interview with all the CEOs of the firms under the support of the Enterprise Incubation System, The second step was to apply input-output analysis and then estimate the production inducement effect. The last step was to compare the results of estimation with the costs of the project. We have concluded this project had achieved 6.3 times greater economic effect compared to the budget. The reason for the large economic effect is that the project provided various infrastructures to the small and medium venture businesses.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

In this study, we analyze the automotive chip ecosystem that recently caused the global supply shortage, and attempt to derive policy implications for us from the conclusion. Automotive chips are critical parts that control various systems so that a vehicle can drive itself or operate with electricity. The current shortage in supply and demand for automotive chips is due to the inconsistency between supply and demand between automotive chip companies and car manufacturers. To promote the automotive chip industry, new investment incentives, tax cuts, and human resource training are needed.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.86-97
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• 2023

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease in 2020 caused a global semiconductor supply shortage and disruption in the production of devices such as iPhones owing to China's quarantine lockdown. Thus, Apple is diversifying its production bases from China to countries like India and Vietnam. The company is also accelerating semiconductor development to guarantee a stable supply, reduce design costs, and customize semiconductors with high quality and outstanding specifications for their products to outperform devices that use general-purpose semiconductors. Following the mobile application processor, Apple is releasing world-class semiconductors, such as the M1 and M2 chips that play the role of central processing units.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.121-134
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• 2018

The Von Neumann based architecture of the modern computer has dominated the computing industry for the past 50 years, sparking the digital revolution and propelling us into today's information age. Recent research focus and market trends have shown significant effort toward the advancement and application of artificial intelligence technologies. Although artificial intelligence has been studied for decades since the Turing machine was first introduced, the field has recently emerged into the spotlight thanks to remarkable milestones such as AlexNet-CNN and Alpha-Go, whose neural-network based deep learning methods have achieved a ground-breaking performance superior to existing recognition, classification, and decision algorithms. Unprecedented results in a wide variety of applications (drones, autonomous driving, robots, stock markets, computer vision, voice, and so on) have signaled the beginning of a golden age for artificial intelligence after 40 years of relative dormancy. Algorithmic research continues to progress at a breath-taking pace as evidenced by the rate of new neural networks being announced. However, traditional Von Neumann based architectures have proven to be inadequate in terms of computation power, and inherently inefficient in their processing of vastly parallel computations, which is a characteristic of deep neural networks. Consequently, global conglomerates such as Intel, Huawei, and Google, as well as large domestic corporations and fabless companies are developing dedicated semiconductor chips customized for artificial intelligence computations. The AI Processor Research Laboratory at ETRI is focusing on the research and development of super low-power AI processor chips. In this article, we present the current trends in computation platform, parallel processing, AI processor, and super-threaded AI processor research being conducted at ETRI.