Abstract
In the era of a knowledge-based economy, service industry is gradually rising but manufacturing industry is slowly declining. The application, establishment, and management of Intellectual Property will be the way for an enterprise to keep the competitiveness with others and at the same time make profit. Intellectual Property not only can protect you from being sued by the competitors, but also produce extra profits through an authorized monopoly. Moreover, corporate could purchase Intellectual Property from others to increase the efficiency of research and design, which may shorten the time for a product to enter the market while increasing customers’ satisfaction, and also reducing the risk of design failure. Patents and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) are regarded as the most significant for the topics that were mentioned above. In addition, the topics must be known of Taiwan after being part of WTO. Indeed, SIP will also be another way to create market segmentation in Great China market. The development of SIP platform is a chance to break through the difficulties of IC design. In order to reach the targets mentioned above, risk and cost management will be the solution for the competitors to collaborate as well as advancing industry development. Through the assistance of third parties, it decreases entanglements of SIP exchange. Third party can also be a consultant in terms of a law suite because the law is always behind technologies. However, preparing ahead can lower the chances of being in the dispute. Although, the application and management of SIP is gradually improving domestically, the evaluation system is still in its stage of developing. Perhaps, this can be developed as another business opportunity especially after the general accepting accounting principles of No. 35 and No. 7 that were coming into effect. A certified public accountant (CPA) and appraiser should emphasize more on SIP in their financial statement. H Company is a growing IC Design House. This article intends to draw employee’s attention on SIP management and make SIP as a way of profit. Also, the greatest emphasis on this article is to work closely with design engineer to define the ownership of SIP. One of another interesting topic would be how to execute SIP management. Though SIP qualification it has certain processes, but there are still some difficulties when working on qualification. Just like IC manufacturing, there are certain processes, but yield is different at different foundry. Everything is differentiable. Executing SIP management and creating different products is a way for IC design house to survive in this competitive world. SoC (System on Chip) is the mainstream and SaC (System above Chip) would be their last battlefield. SaC would make the products have smaller and lower power consumption. SIP will also mean making profits. This will change Taiwan from a knowledge importer into knowledge exporter.