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History of Semiconductor Engineering Hardcover – December 28, 2006

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  • Hardcover: 387 pages
  • Publisher: Springer; 2007 edition (December 28, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 3540689206
  • ISBN-13: 978-3540689201
  • ASIN: 3540342575
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsSilicon Valley history
By T. Schneck on June 13, 2011
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I know the author, Bo Lojek, whom I consider a friend. For purposes of full disclosure, several years ago I prepared patent applications on his inventions. Setting friendship and business aside (I no longer work for Bo or his employer), Bo's book is a valuable historical document because Bo was there, at a certain time and place in semiconductor history when the events that he describes transpired, going back to the early days of Silicon Valley. He personally knew the people at Fairchild Semiconductor, National Semiconductor and other companies that he describes. His book is a rich sharing of personal knowledge of people and events, memorabilia and research. His memorabilia includes advertising, correspondence, photographs and explanatory diagrams, some coming from patents. Of particular interest is research into semiconductor patents and inventions. While much is written about digital circuits and their history, Bo has a significant amount of material dealing with the history of linear semiconductors about which little is written. This is a great book for anyone interested in the history of Silicon Valley and semiconductor engineering.
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4.0 out of 5 starsHistory According to Bo
By davez on January 1, 2012
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The author gives an interesting account of the tumultuous development of the semiconductor industry. He is unapologetic in expressing his feeling towards many icons of the industry, often in contrary to the conventional views. He advocates the idea that creative people are necessarily eccentric. The book is titled "History", but it reads more like a memoir. In between the events and the names of many people, the author fills in some technical details, such as recipes for transistor fabrication and IC circuitry.

However, the $120 price tag seems unjustified; get it from the library and I don't see the need to keep it in your personal library.
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3.0 out of 5 starsI'd buy it -- if I could afford it !
By Foo Bar on March 28, 2015
Format: Paperback
I'd buy it -- if I could afford it !

Yes, I know that's not a review. But I'm almost certain that the author and publisher would make more money if the price were lower (ref: price-volume curve). I buy tons of math, science, and engineering books. If this book had a reasonable price, I would have bought it five years ago. I can't be the only one. Clearly, Springer is pricing books for libraries, not individuals. Maybe it works for obscure journals. But for this book, it's not the way to go.
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4.0 out of 5 starsComplete history, if not a little biased
By batik99 on January 21, 2008
Format: Hardcover
I am a graduate student specializing in IC Design. I must say this is an interesting read. The narrative can be a little bit dry, with a lot of names, dates, etc that does not necessarily enhance the storyline in any bit, but just making the book more historically complete. It is a pleasure to read for a practicing engineer like myself, but it can be a very alien book for even an electrical engineer who does not do board/chip design on a regular basis. The author simply assumes that the reader is familiar with all the popular product lines from companies like national and linear, etc - this can be a serious impediment for this book to get a wider acceptance.

The voice of the author tends to fall into the "Dilbert" stereotype, in a way venerating the eccentric but extremely smart engineers (like Shockley and others) while demonizing management-types (like Gordon Moore). I feel that the author went a little bit too far with his point that these broken geniuses are the one responsible for the success of the semiconductor industries and the management types took advantage of them. For a young buck like myself, I don't know if this is true or not. But this rather extreme viewpoint of the author certainly cast a shadow upon the objectivity of the author's account as a historian.

But overall, this is still a good read for practicing circuit designers. It certainly got good endorsements from the industry big names
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4.0 out of 5 starsInteresting but needs extra editing
By Hugo Coolens on December 10, 2007
Format: Hardcover
I loved reading this book. It sketches the history of semiconductor engineering with a focus on the American part of it.
It is well written but really needs extra editing or proof reading as the author has a strange way to deal with the (definite and undefinite) article and also sometimes with verbs in the English language. I'll give you two examples (but you can find them in abundance):
on page X he writes:
I wrote book about engineers (sic)
On p.8
This book is my personal story and it is story about engineers ... (sic)

I also would have loved to read a bit more about cupper oxide, selenium and galena components which preceded the semiconductor revolution which the author describes.

Some illustrations are also very hard to decipher (e.g. Fig. 1.1.)

All this doesn't mean it isn't a good read, on the contrary, it is one of finest books I have read since long.
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