and very important too - there's no point in a killer design if it can not be made efficiently
Cadence, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Ponte Solutions, Samsung, Sagantec, ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments are the founding members of the the Design For Manufacturability Coalition (DFMC), as announced on Sept. 19 ,by Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2).
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as
possible" - Freeman Dyson