Core: a book reading chip industry
The author attempts to introduce the history of the chip industry in the past 60 years. The book contains 4 chapters, and the first chapter is not bad. It introduces the major events and some key technical details of the chip industry. Most of the events have been seen many times in other materials. Some technical details are for the first time, such as optical lithography.
The latter 3 chapters are stacked in many industry materials and public relations manuscripts, and I feel dull during my reading.
In the later order, the author said that the book was written only after the Zhongxing incident in April. Published in July. The writing time is too fast, and the author is not full-time writing. I am afraid time is an important factor affecting the quality of books.
The overall evaluation of 2.5 stars is of little value.
Here are some excerpts from the book:
1：Apart from disagreeing with Shockley’s business strategy, these young geniuses can’t stand the paternalism of Shockley. “When a small accident happened in the lab, Shawkley asked us to use a polygraph to test who was lying and who was innocent,” Moore recalled. P4
2：Dr. Shawkley had thought that in the 1950s, when human ethics seemed to be more important than corporate regulation, the Gang of Eight would be rejected by the industry after leaving office. On the contrary, it was believed that the talents Shawkley admired must have extraordinary abilities, which were a turning point in the fate of the eight men.Point. In fact, Shockley later reneged them as “eight rebellious gifted”. P7
3：1904According to the one-way flow of electrons revealed by the Eddy Effect, J. Ambrose Fleming, a British Electrical Engineer physicist, invented a vacuum diode with a filament and a plate electrode. P12
4：Under the influence of Moore’s law, if IT companies sell the same amount of products today and 18 months ago, their turnover will be halved, which is called anti-Moore’s law. P18
5：1985At a critical juncture when Intel’s management was generally pessimistic and overwhelmed, Grove discussed with the then chairman and CEO Moore, “What do you think he would do if we stepped down and chose a new president?” Moore hesitated for a moment and answered, “We’ll give up the memory chip business.Grove stared at Moore and said, “why do not you and I go out of this door and do it yourself?” P27
6：Optical lithography and detection technology is the use of specific wavelengths of visible or invisible light, for the target of exposure development and detection technology, Moore’s law can continue the density of the chip and operation efficiency to ensure one of the key technologies. P38
7：Water-based infiltration microlithographs were popular, and Nikon and Canon invested heavily in the development of 157nm “dry” microlithographic technology has since been shelved, which also laid the groundwork for Asma to overtake Japanese companies. P41
8：In the history of computer CPU development, performance from Pentium 4 to Core 2 Duo relied mainly on design breakthroughs, and other breakthroughs relied mainly on chip technology. P58
9：It is precisely because of the high fixed investment cost of the 12 inch factory, so many vertical integration chip manufacturers did not have enough capital to invest, so that TSMC seized the opportunity of “industry fault” and gradually became the leading enterprise in the wafer OEM industry. P63
10：In analog chip, RF chip is one of the more difficult to complete the design, often need to master engineers for many years to master the essence. Today, wireless communication has been popularized, and radio frequency chips are widely used. P80
11：2008In the year of the global financial crisis, dynamic RAM prices plummeted. At this point, Samsung again opened the “counter-cyclical investment” model, the previous year’s profits were used to expand capacity. P129
12：For the upstream intellectual property module suppliers, to a certain extent, design companies have constructed a “genome,” and intellectual property module enterprises have provided genes. The intellectual property module supplier gains mainly through the two modes of licensing fees and royalties. P156
13：The ancestor of Saizhi Tang is the famous Yan men SAH. This is a family of Chinese surnames. The third generation of SA Du La was born in Yan gate, Shanxi, and was given the name of SA by Yuan Dynasty. In 1333, Sarto’s nephew Sarah Chung moved to Fuzhou, Fujian. P162
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