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A Case Study on Tech-nology Innovation in

Korea- ex-President CHUN’s 4M DRAM Development

Project -

2014. 5. 22

Professor Minho KANG, Ph.D.

ex-Research Coordinator, MOSTChief Executive, EncoreKorea Initiative

KOREA

• Ph.D. in EE, The University of Texas at Austin, 1973-1977

• AT&T Bell Labs, ETRI, Optical Communications, 1978-1989• MOST, Director General, Electronics Research, 1985-1988• KT, EVP, R&D, Quality Assurance, Overseas Business, 1990-1998• KAIST, Prof., ERC Director, Dean, VP, Prof. Emeritus, 1999- present

• Chair, Korea Optical Internet Forum, 2003- 2012• Founder and Chairs, International Conference on Optical In-

ternet, 2002- present • Founder and Chief Executive, EncoreKorea Initiative, 2011-present• Members, NAEK, IEEE, IEEK

• Awards: Order of Civil Merit: Camellia(1982), Technology Grand Prize(1991), COIN Award(2008), ICU Best Research Award(2008) Order of Science Merit: Tech. Innovation(2011)

• Contacts: minhokang@kaist.ac.kr, +82-10-2803-6136

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Korea: 50 Years and 4M DRAM

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4M DRAM Project

• 1986-1989, USD 100M• Multi-Ministry Project–MOST, MOC, MCI, EPB

• Industry Consortium– Samsung, Hyundai, LG Groups

• Goal-oriented R&D with GRI Lead-ership

• No. 1 Global MS since 1993

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Why Memory Device?

• 4th 5year Plan(1977-1981)– Technology Innovation (Semiconductor,

ICT)

• “Rice” for ICT and Other Industries• Japan, USA led “Winner Takes All”

Market• Local Development: 256k DRAM– 1.5 year Gap

• Korea Needed Breakthrough

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Goal and Expectations

• 4M DRAM with 0.8 Micron Line Width

• 6 month gap by early 1988• 11% Global MS by early 1990’s.

1st Stage 2nd Stage 3rd Stage

Develop-mentTerm

‘86. 8. – ‘87. 3.

‘87. 4. – ‘88. 3.

‘88. 4. – ‘89. 3.

TargetTechnology

1.25 micron1 M DRAM

1.0 micron4 M DRAM

0.8 micron4 M DRAM

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Key Players

• MOST Research Coordinator’s Of-fice

• ETRI: Project Leader with All Au-thority

• Industry Consortium– Samsung, Hyundai, LG

• Multi-Ministry Support–MOC, MCI, EPB

• President CHUN’s Blessing– Approval, Care

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Basic Principles

• Everybody is Winner• Strong Leadership of ETRI• Cooperation and Competition• Mobilize Every National Resource• Find the Short – Cut Route– Divided Research: Process, Inspection

Tech.– Joint Research: Design, Test Vehicle– Individual Research: Product Develop-

ment

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Fund Raising

• 1 USD= 800-900 KRW(1988)• Total Budget: 100M USD– Goal-oriented R&D : 10B KRW– KT : 20B KRW– Petroleum Fund : 20B KRW– Ind. Consortium : 10B KRW– Ind. Facility Purchase: 28B KRW

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Progress

• 4M DRAM Engineering Sample Die on February, 1988– President CHUN Congratulations @ Blue

House – Invited some 30 Key Contributing Members from Ministries, ETRI, 3 company members

• Now Korea is No. 1st in Global MS– DRAM, LCD, 3D TV, Smart Phone, – Broadband Internet Penetration,……

• Opening Creative Economy Paradigm

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President CHUN’sProject Approval

DocumentAugust 22, 1988

• Process– MOST->MOC->MIC->EPB-> BH

• President’s memo– ETRI President, as PM of this 4M

DRAM project, takes full author-ity over all R&D manpowers.

– Three companies are bounded together by a common destiny and should follow and cooperate the direction of the PM.

• Implication– Delegate the authority to one,

ETRI.– Three rival “Chaeboel” cooper-

ate for one goal in technology.– KSF-> called a President Project

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The First 4M DRAM(1988.2.)

64M DRAM(1992) 256M DRAM(1994)

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Key Success Factors

• Government’s Forward-looking Vision– Long term 5-year plan(1962-1990)– GRI, MOST– S&T led Economy Growth Policy– System-minded Technocrats and Brains

• Korean “Chaeboel” System– Speedy Decision, Mobilize Huge Resources– Well trained engineers from Home and Abroad

• Global Standards, Markets

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Implication for SPAIID 2015-2019

• Kazakhstan Is Ready– President Nazarbayev’s Attention on Tech-

nology and Industry Innovation– 1st SPAIID 2011-2014 Experience– NATD, KIDI, “Bolashak” program, Tech-

nocrats

• EncoreKorea Initiative (www.encorekorea.-com)

– Experience Sharing and Expert Exchange– EncoreKorea Initiative – NATD MoU (2014. 5.)

THANK

YOU!

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