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Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry by [Daniel Nenni, Paul McLellan, Cliff Hou]

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The purpose of this book is to illustrate the magnificence of the fabless semiconductor ecosystem, and to give credit where credit is due. We trace the history of the semiconductor industry from both a technical and business perspective. We argue that the development of the fabless business model was a key enabler of the growth in semiconductors since the mid-1980s. Because business models, as much as the technology, are what keep us thrilled with new gadgets year after year, we focus on the evolution of the electronics business. We also invited key players in the industry to contribute chapters. These “In Their Own Words” chapters allow the heavyweights of the industry to tell their corporate history for themselves, focusing on the industry developments (both in technology and business models) that made them successful, and how they in turn drive the further evolution of the semiconductor industry.

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Dr. Paul McLellan has a 25 year background in semiconductor and EDA with both deep technical knowledge and extensive business experience. He works as a consultant in EDA, embedded systems and semiconductor. Paul was educated in Britain and spent the early part of his career as a software engineer at VLSI Technology both in California and France, eventually becoming CEO of Compass Design Automation. Since then he was VP engineering at Ambit, corporate VP at Cadence, VPs of marketing at VaST Systems Technology and Virtutech, and interim CEO at Envis Corporation. He blogs at dac.com and at semiwiki.com and has published a book EDAgrafitti on the EDA and semiconductor industries. Daniel Nenni has worked in Silicon Valley since 1984 with computer manufacturers, electronic design automation software, and semiconductor intellectual property companies. Currently Daniel is a Strategic Foundry Relationship expert for companies wishing to partner with TSMC, UMC, SMIC, Global Foundries, and their top customers. Daniel is the founder of the Semiconductor Wiki Project (www.semiwiki.com). --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JT1NZF8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ www.SemiWiki.com (April 19, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 19, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4451 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1497525047

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- #12 in Semiconductors (Kindle Store)
- #36 in Semiconductors (Books)

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John Torrence

Great

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 8, 2022

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Great book, very detailed information on this subject that you won't really find anywhere else in a format like this. Definitely pick this up if you're interested in learning more about the industry.

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Kindle Customer

thorough review of the IC (integrated circuits) and the rise of silicon valley history

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 5, 2021

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I learned a lot from reading this book. The history was of great interest to me personally since I find the technology of integrated circuits, silicon wafer planerization, die manufacture and related areas of great impact to the modern industry. I learned tons about business strategy and good practices. This book is a must have for anyone working in the semi-conductor chip design and manufacture. Remember, history repeats itself, so learning the history of this industry can be useful for the future. Also, the information in this book can be useful for people who want to invest in the stock market. If read carefully, one can glean investment strategies that may pay out big in the future.

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Jeffrey Hart

mostly first-person account

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2020

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This book features a number of accounts by actual participants in the semiconductor industry of how different firms adapted to the rise of giant semiconductor foundries. Fabless firms specialized in design without having to invest in state of the art production facilities.

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John G. Bennett

the industry view of its own history

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 8, 2014

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This book is a set of histories of major players in the development of fabless semiconductor. In parts, it is invited histories by insiders. The book is interesting for this collection of various insider viewpoints. If you are in the industry or deal with it, or interested in its history, this is a fascinating collection. If you are expecting deep discussion of technology, this is not the book you are looking for.

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satisfied user

This is a well-written with many helpful facts. As ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2015

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This is a well-written with many helpful facts. As an economist I must say this book inspires me to think about a lot of interesting questions about the semiconductor industry.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2014

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This is a great read for anyone who is new to the world of semiconductors. I would couple it with the "Essentials of Telecommunications" and a simple overview of electromagnetics and chemistry on brilliant.org.

I think Nenni is off the mark with a few things that are subjective, but otherwise I'd recommend this book to anyone looking to get immersed.

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Diggidy Dog 99

Great book, highly recommended!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2019

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This book is fascinating. Great book about a very important part of American history. I strongly recommend it if you're interested in such things.

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Josh P

Feels like Marketing blurbs.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2022

The parts of the book written by the author are reasonably good but some of the guest pieces feel terribly out of place. I ended up putting the book down around the chapter on GlobalFoundries.

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Please fix the Kindle version. Of course I don't hate the book!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 20, 2014

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I bought the Kindle version for (i) speed of delivery and (ii) not wanting to carry a paper book around with me.

The formatting of the text on the Kindle version is completely messed up, with paragraphs out-of-sequence throughout the book. Does it belong in some multi-column format? Does nobody check the Kindle versions before their release?

I'd like Amazon to fix the illegible Kindle version. No, I don't want a refund because I really want to read this book.

I really enjoy Daniel's editorials on the WWW and documenting the fabless semiconductor industry is a great idea. I'm pretty sure I'd be giving this book 5 stars if the text wasn't scrambled.

Perhaps the scrambled text is a narrative of the Fabless model where we don't always get what we think we ordered. I should have ordered the GDSII version ;O)

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