The European authorities are trying to revive the semiconductor industry due to financial investments in technology. Intel has recognized that in order to address the fundamental problems of the industry need to work together on innovation, and on several fronts at once.
The event was dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of Ethernet, industry veterans share their views on topical issues in innovation. Ethernet lab Xerox PARC Bill Spencer , for example, complains about the reduction in the activity of large corporations in innovation, as well as the deterioration of funding from the U.S. government to conduct fundamental research. According to him, the same as Apple does not engage in basic research, occasionally interested in financing solutions applied problems. According to the participants, among the major players in the market Google and Microsoft are the companies that are now able to finance major development.
Another problem - the lack of middle,those laboratories engaged in bringing their applications to the stage of mass production. USA has an excellent system of higher education, but replication application development is inefficient. Scientists also do not have enough funds to conduct research because their scope is now a global nature and give unpredictable results.
However, there are those who do not see any change in the industry, compared with the early development stage of computer technology. Head of R & D in the direction of Microsoft Research, Gordon Bell (Gordon Bell), confident that the market is full of great ideas and their successful federal agencies fund. Let us hope that the problems still can not stop progress in the field of computer technology.