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Semiconductor Fabrication 101

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Re: Semiconductor Fabrication 101

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Post by metaphor »

mandevil wrote: post #9
noipv4 wrote: post #6

Registered for it. it's sponsored by intel, interestingly.

It's about 230 miles from West Lafayette Ind to Columbus Oh where Intel is building their new 20B fab. I suspect that this is part of an effort to create more semi-conductor engineers to work at that plant.

> I suspect that this is part of an effort to create more semi-conductor engineers to work at that plant.

Not just at Intel's Ohio fab, but across the nation as part of a much broader onshoring movement[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756704

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Post by dexwiz »

mandevil wrote: post #9
noipv4 wrote: post #6

Registered for it. it's sponsored by intel, interestingly.

It's about 230 miles from West Lafayette Ind to Columbus Oh where Intel is building their new 20B fab. I suspect that this is part of an effort to create more semi-conductor engineers to work at that plant.

Purdue is an engineering school and has an existing electrical engineering and nanotechnology departments. Indiana has a stronger biotech presence but they could support chip fabs. But like the rest of the rust belt/midwest, manufacturing has been hollowed out since the 80s.

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Post by dang »

alacritas0 wrote: post #5
actionfromafar wrote: post #2

I'll look into it later when I'm on Chrome - it said the payment process requires Chrome.

what are you talking about? it's fine on firefox, and I don't expect an academic department to test on every browser

Please edit out swipes ("what are you talking about?") from your comments, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be just fine without that bit.

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Post by simonbarker87 »

caditinpiscinam wrote: post #15

Why do I have to "register for" and "purchase" a free, self-paced course?

Probably just the way their system is set up. They could change the system, add the features needed to bypass that aspect but that will get bogged down in their (probably already understaffed) IT department backlog. So just put it up in the current system and create a couple of minutes faff for us rather than it never getting released.

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Post by thebigestmidget »

I'm currently in the middle of finishing a degree in CS. Do you think this will help me in terms of employment knowledge? I know they are completely different fields, but would base knowledge of the fabrication process not demonstrate a wide breadth of knowledge in CS to some degree due to its adjacency ?

Re: Semiconductor Fabrication 101

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Post by practicemaths »

thebigestmidget wrote: post #19

I'm currently in the middle of finishing a degree in CS. Do you think this will help me in terms of employment knowledge? I know they are completely different fields, but would base knowledge of the fabrication process not demonstrate a wide breadth of knowledge in CS to some degree due to its adjacency ?

No not really. It's more for electrical or computer engineers. However there's nothing wrong with gaining more knowledge for the sake of it and it can be just nice knowing a bit about how your machine actually works.

Of course, maybe it is more useful if you're into some really low level programming. But for most CS hardware understanding isn't necessary.

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