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I spent a little less than a year at a PCB company after 30 years in semiconductors. Thanks god I got out and back to semiconductors. The PCB industry is 40 years behind in every way. It was an awful experience. Point being, I wouldn't generalize an experience in the PCB industry to...
I hadn't heard of the comparison study of Menlo Park and Visalia (between Fresno and Bakersfield in the CA central valley) before. It was by a UC Berkeley economist and it seems incredibly naïve to me.
https://www.salon.com/2012/05/20/america_resegregated/
Bloomberg want to pitch this like a...
The only good thing about the NEW ATLAS articles is they link to actual information at the end. But before that you are exposed to their sensationalistic blather.
The title of that article is misleading. The press release from Fraunhofer is actually pretty interesting. They want to replace the current dielectric layer on heat sinks with a poly crystalline diamond membrane. I didn't know Fraunhofer had a US site based in Michigan...
The article mentioned salaries for some of the work in Japan being 66% higher than nominal to entice workers. Sounds like even in Japan it takes more than appeals to honor to motivate the workers.
During the 2022-12-06 ceremony (to celebrate the first batch of state of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing equipment to arrive in TSMC Arizona), TSMC revealed six semiconductor tools which are designed to support production of leading-edge semiconductor process technology. Among these include...
This is wrong. See IMEC info https://www.imec-int.com/en/press/imec-demonstrates-readiness-high-na-euv-patterning-ecosystem
The first High-NA EUV scanner (TWINSCAN EXE:5000) has been assembled by ASML and the first wafers will be exposed soon. In the next few months, the joint imec-ASML...
The reduction in time by not doing things sequentially is worth the increased risk. It isn't like they could change the design anyways. This way they start learning sooner in Veldhoven and transfer the knowledge to Oregon.
I'm not attending, but reading Chris Mack's blog about it. This caught my attention.
"Gurpreet Singh of Intel described the use of DSA rectification combined with EUV to print 21 nm and 18 nm pitch patterns using what is called self-aligned litho-etch-litho-etch (SALELE, pronounced...
Is cogeneration the right term? "Cogeneration or combined heat and power is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time. Cogeneration is a more efficient use of fuel or heat, because otherwise-wasted heat from electricity generation is put...
Looking at the past 20 years, Apple and Google both had periods when they were growing at 70% for a couple of years. It looks like Nvidia is now growing at that rate. They are recovering from a dip a year ago which resulted in the excess growth rates the past several quarters. Will be...
Not much content in this clip. I don't understand how Altman became so important. After 2 years at Stanford, he founded Loopt and raised a bunch of money. Sold it for a bunch of of money. If it had never existed, it wouldn't make any difference. Ran Y-combinator for several years. Raised...
