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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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Outstanding !
First 40% of this book is literally the history of the microchip, starting with the first transistor in late 50's designed by Shockley, then mass produced in emerging companies like Texas Instruments and Fairchild initially for the Pentagon's guided missles used in Vietnam war then for general use.
We then hit the 60-70's when America outsources its production to Japan and loses its grip on memory chip DRAM technology.
3 engineers leave Fairchild and create Intel.
In the 80's Intel loses market share to Japan which learned to integrate chips in consumer electronics (radios , walkman) via companies like Sony and Sharp.
Late 80's Intel gambles and leaves DRAM market and together with IBM and Bill Gates MSFT devise an alliance around IBM computers , running Windows OS , powered by Intel's x86 microchip architecture. This will dominate the next 30 years.
We also get to see how the smartphone arena changed the balance of pwoer from USA to Taiwan and how Intel refused to produce custom chips for the emerging Apple , thus throwing away a huge opportunity for divestment.
We get to understand the different types of chips (memory , logic and analog) and who specializes in what as well as the complex procedures required to.build a chip (design, production and assembly) and learn why everything now is centered around Taiwan's TSMC behemoth.
The transistor lessons are above par , as well as the complex machinery needed to build it nowadays via the process of litography , and why only Netherlands's ASML can do it (using no less then 460k parts ) including high precision lasers from Germany's Trumpf which in turn uses Carl Zeiss optics.
There are so many things explained regarding transistors , cpu's , memory , supply chains , the companies that design ,produce and consume (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, ARM, Micron , Huawei , Samsung , Apple) , world gonverments, USA trade war with China and the banning of Huawei....
This book is literally a compact enciclopedia involving topics such as history , electronics , science , politics , warfare and everything that has to do with microchips which is the new world's gold standard.
Besides developers , and electronic nerds, people into tech and not only will find this book mind blowing !
First 40% of this book is literally the history of the microchip, starting with the first transistor in late 50's designed by Shockley, then mass produced in emerging companies like Texas Instruments and Fairchild initially for the Pentagon's guided missles used in Vietnam war then for general use.
We then hit the 60-70's when America outsources its production to Japan and loses its grip on memory chip DRAM technology.
3 engineers leave Fairchild and create Intel.
In the 80's Intel loses market share to Japan which learned to integrate chips in consumer electronics (radios , walkman) via companies like Sony and Sharp.
Late 80's Intel gambles and leaves DRAM market and together with IBM and Bill Gates MSFT devise an alliance around IBM computers , running Windows OS , powered by Intel's x86 microchip architecture. This will dominate the next 30 years.
We also get to see how the smartphone arena changed the balance of pwoer from USA to Taiwan and how Intel refused to produce custom chips for the emerging Apple , thus throwing away a huge opportunity for divestment.
We get to understand the different types of chips (memory , logic and analog) and who specializes in what as well as the complex procedures required to.build a chip (design, production and assembly) and learn why everything now is centered around Taiwan's TSMC behemoth.
The transistor lessons are above par , as well as the complex machinery needed to build it nowadays via the process of litography , and why only Netherlands's ASML can do it (using no less then 460k parts ) including high precision lasers from Germany's Trumpf which in turn uses Carl Zeiss optics.
There are so many things explained regarding transistors , cpu's , memory , supply chains , the companies that design ,produce and consume (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, ARM, Micron , Huawei , Samsung , Apple) , world gonverments, USA trade war with China and the banning of Huawei....
This book is literally a compact enciclopedia involving topics such as history , electronics , science , politics , warfare and everything that has to do with microchips which is the new world's gold standard.
Besides developers , and electronic nerds, people into tech and not only will find this book mind blowing !
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December 19, 2022
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December 27, 2022
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"This book is killing it ! A couple of pages in and i am already deep inside the production and supply chain of microchips but even mode interesting being the history of its emergence."
December 28, 2022
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"I just looove how the author goes through the history of the integrated circuit giving insight into how Silicon Valley and big semiconductor companies like Bell Labs, Texas Instruments , Fairchild semiconductors came to be by selling first to the army and thento consumers and optimizing along the way.
Now i am in the mid 60s when Japanesse consumer companies (Sony, Sharp) take off."
Now i am in the mid 60s when Japanesse consumer companies (Sony, Sharp) take off."
December 28, 2022
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January 1, 2023
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"Apple and Intel buy chips that can only be produced by Taiwan' TSMC, who, uses EUV litography tools made only by dutch ASML, which, in its machines uses lasers made only by german TRUMPF company, which relies on optics made only by german Carl Zeiss.
An ASML litography machine is 100 millions , a TSMC foundry is 100billion usd.
The monopoly is on a diferent dimension than even oil production and cant be changed."
An ASML litography machine is 100 millions , a TSMC foundry is 100billion usd.
The monopoly is on a diferent dimension than even oil production and cant be changed."
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