ABSTRACT -- As a national center, NECTEC's road map in the area of microelectronics is to start from IC/VLSI design, wafer fabrication and then to expand into the areas of flat panel display devices, sensors, optoelectronics, and so on. The mission is to activate the rise of microelectronics industry in Thailand. After nearly ten years, however, the progress has not been significant. Main reason is the lack of strategy and commitment in the national policy-making level. Most of the activities are bottom-up oriented, and not well-enough supported. Under this situation, NECTEC is working hard to promote IC/VLSI design, and to realize Thailand's first wafer fabrication line. In this report NECTEC's microelectronics related activities are summarized.

REPRINT --- This article is a reprint of a paper presented at the 1^st NRCT-KOSEF (Thai-Korea) Workshop on Semiconductors Technology (Nov.1999, Bangkok)