Sematech Is a Producer of Computer Chips

question 95

Multiple Choice

Sematech is a producer of computer chips. To gain an advantage over other computer chip makers, Sematech focuses on reducing its costs below all of its competitors and has aligned its value chain accordingly. Recently, several of Sematech's competitors have begun to reduce the company's competitive advantage. In response to this threat, Sematech has decided to add production capacity in an effort to lower costs.
-If Sematech's efforts to increase its production capacity resulted in increased complexity and an inability of managers to control and operate the firm efficiently, this would be an example of

• A) physical limits to efficient size.
• B) worker de-motivation.
• C) distance to markets and suppliers.
• D) managerial diseconomies.

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Definitions:

Polygenic

A trait or characteristic that is influenced by multiple genes, often resulting in a continuous range of possibilities.

Dizygotic Twins

Twins that develop from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm cells, making them genetically unique from one another, similar to typical siblings.

Heterozygous

A genetic condition where an individual has two different alleles of a gene.

Dominant–Recessive Pattern

The interaction of a heterozygous pair of alleles in such a way that the phenotype reflects one allele (the dominant gene) more than the other (the recessive gene).