Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry

by Jan Mazurek

Book Overview

An examination of the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan.

In Making Microchips, Jan Mazurek examines the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan. Globalization, economic restructuring,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262632705
• ISBN13: 9780262632706
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher