Oof. I can't say I enjoyed reading this book, but I'm happy that I read it. This book is a detailed history of 1987-1994, when Sematech, a public-private R&D consortium, literally saved the US semi-conductor industry. Unfortunately, the book gets too caught up in the weeds of personalities and anecdotes, and the lessons extracted at the end are couched in management doublespeak. Could have used more context, and a more critical examination of the state of the semi-conductor industry before and after Sematech.