DailyDirt: Introduction To Semiconductors

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Semiconductors are all around us, everyday. They make our phones and computers work, and sometimes we don't realize they're also in our cars and fancy toasters and refrigerators, etc, etc. It's likely that the majority of the Techdirt audience has taken an electrical engineering class, but if you're not in that group (and you're curious about what a semiconductor does), check out these links on what goes into the chips that run the modern world. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post via StumbleUpon.

Filed Under: arm, boolean logic, chips, lithography, openpower, processors, semiconductors, transistors, x86
Companies: intel, quora


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  1. icon
    Michael Barclay (profile), 20 Nov 2014 @ 5:24pm

    You forgot Britney Spears

    You forgot the essential website, "Britney Spears' Guide to
    Semiconductor Physics".
    http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 20 Nov 2014 @ 6:16pm

    Here's a challenge for everybody.

    How many chip manufacturers can you name? Fabless companies does not count!

    Okay, here are some answers in the form of an incomplete table of fabs...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 21 Nov 2014 @ 1:34pm

    https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch

    There's a free course on microprocessor architecture at the link.

    But you have to hurry to register, I'm not sure if they'll leave the materials available after the final course exam.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. icon
    RonKaminsky (profile), 22 Nov 2014 @ 5:27am

    Re: You forgot Britney Spears

    Drat! Beat me to it.

    I still remember laughing until tears when I first saw that website.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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