ASIC challenges: emerging from a primordial soup

In his keynote speech given at the International Verilog-VHDL Conference (March 1998), Wilf Corrigan, the chair and CEO of LSI Logic, described some of the challenges facing the ASIC industry today and in the future. Corrigan, one of Silicon Valley's pioneers, has helmed several major companies over the past 30 years. Here, he summarizes his major points.