Surging costs of building state-of-art manufacturing facility pushed firms to outsource production while advanced technologies require a closer link between design and manufacturing. Explores the development of the strategy in this environment. Although Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) started as a pure-play producer, and its position in the industry has grown, and he had a right to influence in a few of the critical control points in the process of developing the chip. The central issue is the decision to make TSMC on how to structure its dependencies and interactions with customers and technology providers. "Hide
by Marco Iansiti, Marcin Strojwas Source: Harvard Business School 12 pages. Publication Date: October 16, 2003. Prod. #: 604044-PDF-ENG
