Microprocessor Industry and Case Studies

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Required Reading:

• Craig R. Barrett. From Sand to Silicon: Manufacturing an Integrated Circuit, Scientific American, Special Issue, The Solid-State Century, January 1998, pp. 55-61. (Search: e-Journals/ Scientific American Archive Online/article (full text) Scientific American
• Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis. “Exponential Laws of Computing Growth.” Communications of the ACM. January 2017. ACM.org.
• G. Dan Hutcheson, Jerry D. Hutcheson. Technology & Economics in the Semiconductor Industry, Scientific American: The Solid State Century, pp. 66-73, January 1996. Cornell Library.

Optional Reading:

• Chris Mack. The Multiple Lives of Moore’s Law: Why Gordon Moore’s grand prediction has endured for 50 years, March 2015 (full text) IEEE Spectrum

References:

• Samuel K. Moore. "EUV Lithography Finally Ready for Chip Manufacturing," January 5, 2018. IEEE Spectrum.
• Joel Hruska. “450mm silicon wafers aren’t happening any time soon as major consortium collapses.” January 13, 2017. ExtremeTech.
• Hayley Ringle. “Intel investing $7 billion in Chandler facility, creating 3,000 high-wage jobs.” February 8, 2017. Phoenix Business Journal.
• John D. McKinnon and Rebecca Ballhaus. “Intel Corp. Announces $7 Billion Investment in Arizona Plant.” February 8, 2017. The Wall Street Journal.
• Ansha, Sharma. “Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy.” Tech Crunch. January 18, 2016.  Tech Crunch.
• Hardy, Quentin. “Intel Faces Uphill Battle to Live by Moore’s Law.” January 15, 2016. The New York Times.
• Oliver, Sam. “Former TSMC engineer gave secret process technology to Samsung, court rules.” Apple Insider. August 26, 2015.
• Brooke Crothers, “End of Moore’s Law: It’s not just about physics,” CNet. August 28, 2013. CNet
• Hecht, Jeff. “Is Keck’s Law Coming to an End?” IEEE Spectrum. January 26, 2016. IEEE.
• Kipp, Scott. “Exponential bandwidth growth and cost declines.” Network World. April 10, 2012. Network World.
• Zhuang, Yanyan et al. “Future Internet Bandwidth Trends: An Investigation of Current and Future Disruptive Technologyes. 11/01/2013. Polytechnic Institute of NYU.
• Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2014-2019 White Paper. May 27, 2015. Cisco.
• Nielsen, Jakob. “Nielsen’s Law of Internet Bandwidth.” NNGroup. April 5, 1998. NNGroup.
• Rogers, Adam. “Getting There: Welcome to the Metastructure: The New Internet of Transportation.” Wired Magazine. January 4, 2016. Wired.
• Sebastian Anthony. “Intel forges ahead to 10nm, will move away from silicon at 7nm.” ARS Technica. February 23, 2015. Technica.
• Ian Morris. “Samsung Galaxy S6 And S6 Edge Get Important New Android 6 Update Today.” February 15, 2016. Forbes.
• John Markoff. “Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips.” The New York Times. September 2015. The New York Times.
• Dan Hutcheson. "Transistors, by the Numbers: A look at Moore's Law in action" April, 2015. IEEE Spectrum
• Agam Shah. "IBM Spending $3 Billion to Rethink Decades-old Computer Design," Computerworld, July 10, 2014. Computerworld.com
• Christopher Mims. "Forget 'the Cloud'; Computing's Future Lies in 'the Fog,' The Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2014. The Wall Street Journal
• Tony Afshary. "Achieving Low Latency: The Fall and Rise of Storage Caching," Datanami, July 1, 2013. Datanami
• Lawrence Latif. "TSMC Warns of Five Year Struggle with 450mm Wafers," The Inquirer, June 12, 2012. The Inquirer
• Joel Hruska. "This is what the death of Moore's Law Looks Like," TextremeTech, March 17, 2014. TextremeTech
• Brian Santo, Sally Adee. "Multicore Made Simple," IEEE Spectrum, September 24, 2009. IEEE Spectrum
• Ashlee Vance. "Chip Designer Prepares for Wider Demand in Everyday Things," The New York Times, September 20, 2010. The New York Times
• Oliver Staley. "Innovator, Walt de Heer," Bloomberg Businessweek, September 27, 2010. Businessweek
• John Markoff. "From Stanford, a Computer to Push Beyond the Boundaries of Silicon," The New York Times, September 25, 2013. The New York Times
• Agam Shah. "Here's an Intel chip that uses wine, yes, wine, for power," Computerworld, September 12, 2013. Computerworld
• Don Clark. "Intel Unveils New Ultra-Small Chips," The Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2013. The Wall Street Journal
• Don Clark, Eva Dou. "PCs Learn new Tricks for Mobile Age," The Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2013. The Wall Street Journal
• Simson L. Garfinkel. "Turing's Enduring Importance," Technology Review, March/April 2012. Technology Review
• Kate Greene. "Cloud-Powered GPS Chip Slashes Smartphone Power Consumption," MIT Technology Review. Technology Review
• Peter Clarke. "China Makes its own 22-nm Transistor," EETimes, December 21, 2012. EETimes
• John Markoff, "New Storage Device is Very Small, at 12 Atoms," The New York Times, 1/17/2012. The New York Times
• David Pogue. "Pretty Tablet, Though Late For the Ball," The New York Times, 6/30/2011. The New York Times
• Don Clark. "Intel, Seeking Edge on Rivals, Rethinks Its Building Block," The Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2011. The Wall Street Journal
• Agam Shah. "Intel aims to reshape chips for next-gen mobile devices," Computerworld, February 21, 2011. Computerworld
• Jack Clark. "Intel: Why a 1,000-core chip is feasible," ZDNet UK, December 30, 2010. ZDNet UK
• Anand Lal Shimpi. "Intel's Sandy Bridge Architecture Exposed," Anandtech.com, September 14, 2010. Anandtech.com
• Rupert Goodwins. "A Close-up on Intel's Knights Ferry Platform" ZDNet UK, June 1, 2010. ZDNet UK
• Anton Shilov. "Intel Outlines Process Technology Roadmap," Xbit Laboratories, August 22, 2009. Xbit Laboratories
• Martin Campbell-Kelly. "The Origin of Computing," Scientific American, August 21, 2009. Scientific American
• Mark T. Bohr, Robert S. Chau, Tahir Ghani & Kaizad Mistry. "The High-k Solution," IEEE Spectrum, October 2007. IEEE Spectrum
• "Intel pushes for 80-core CPU by 2010" vnunet.com
• Markoff, John. "Intel Says Chips Will Run Faster, Using Less Power," The New York Times, January 27, 2007. The New York Times