christopher miller (author name), chip war (book title), 2022
target: general reader
incomplete read, good book, worth reading, too much other stuff outside of chip war topic, like ... ... ..., ...
a tighter editing might work?
positive: I learn new things
negative: ... ... ...
hardcover
notes index
manufactured in the united states of america
431 pages
cast of characters (good, important)
glossary (at the beginning, good, important)
black and white pictures and photos
black and white glossy map (good, important)
notes
morris chang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Chang
1976
no "fabless" companies
designed chips but lacked their own labs,
Lynn Conway
Carver Mead
chip design
separate chip design from manufacturing
Carver Mead
prophesy
Gutenberg moment in chipmaking
John Carruthers
Lithography
Intel
Andy Grove
Jay Lathrop
Nikon, Cannon, ASML
p.187 to p.189
1996, Intel
u.s. department of energy
expertise in optics and other fields
make EUV work
Intel paid for most "95 per cent gorilla"
researchers
Lawrence livermore
Sandia national labs
to build a prototype EUV system
their focus was on science, not on mass production.
no American firm could do it.
it still wasn't clear that EUV would work.
ASML's core R&D would take place in Netherlands.
commerce department, the national labs, ..
long delays and huge cost overruns,
DARPA and defense department, which had funded the lithography industry for decades,
EUV lithography tools
([ the technical and production development of the following URL is in development ])
p.144
Soviet union
"copy it" strategy
faced a continued technology lag.
1985, CIA study of soviet microprocessors
were always half a decade (5 years) behind.
([ 5 years behind on an 8 hours per day, and 5 days per week; or 5 years behind on a 24 hours per day, 7 day per week; ...])
([ mythical man-month ])
p.412
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