Applied Materials Is a Major Reason Computers Keep Getting Faster
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#2https://archive.ph/rjaAe
Original title and subtitle (which don't fit here): "The Most Important Tech Company You’ve Never Heard of Is a Major Reason Computers Keep Getting Faster. Few people outside of semiconductor manufacturing have ever heard of Applied Materials and its competitors—but what they do is more essential than ever to maintaining the global pace of technological progress."
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#3This is PR.
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#4When I finished my phd in materials science I interviewed and got an offer at applied for $120k/yr in 2019.
No thanks.
Throughout my time in grad school I saw leaders in the semiconductor industry talk to professors and complain about how they can no longer get the best talent and that every one is going to software.
Well, have you looked at what you're paying and what you're asking to get for that money? And then they complain about nobody wanting to work anymore.
So yeah when I see these bs pr pieces about how important they are, how come they're not valued higher and pay better salaries? The talk and the reality don't match.
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#5This is PR.
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#6When I finished my phd in materials science I interviewed and got an offer at applied for $120k/yr in 2019. No thanks. Throughout my time in grad school I saw leaders in the semiconductor industry talk to professors and complain about how they can no longer get the best talent and that every one is going to software. Well, have you looked at what you're paying and what you're asking to get for that money? And then th…
120k? I've had 60-80k offers. Friends with PhD and several post-doc accepted <80k.
I accepted the only offer I had at 65k, and quit several months in the job. Understaffed, underfunded, engineer covering operators quitting on the spot. Noped out and never looked back. Such a shame, the science is awesome, but the career outlook just bleak.
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#7I doubt there is any man-made object more complex than a state of the art semiconductor. The amount of science and engineering that has gone into the evolution of the fabrication should not be taken for granted. Exotic is an understatement. Just for a sliver of insight, take a look at the ASML lithography tool and how it generates the light that exposes the nanoscale circuits on the chip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv40Viz-KTc
And that was filmed years ago, as today, TSMC is using ASML machines at 7 nm and below.
Puff piece or not, the equipment companies have delivered technical wonders under extreme duress and endured brutal business cycles for many decades while still managing to enable these feats of science and engineering.
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#8Do they pay well?
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#9Moore Law is all but dead. Will 3D stacking that Applied Materials is specialized in be facing the same obstacle?
Are they the leader of the field? I guess it isn’t clear to me why the article talks about Applied Materials.
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#10I doubt there is any man-made object more complex than a state of the art semiconductor. The amount of science and engineering that has gone into the evolution of the fabrication should not be taken for granted. Exotic is an understatement. Just for a sliver of insight, take a look at the ASML lithography tool and how it generates the light that exposes the nanoscale circuits on the chip: https://www.youtube.com/watc…
Wow I thought all the LHC hardware looked impressive. That ASML EUV machine is something else!