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'Global Foundries needed to be "aligned" with US interests and oversight' That might have to do with Global Foundries which bought IBM's fab in East Fishkill [
by filereaper 10y ago
'Global Foundries needed to be "aligned" with US interests and oversight'
That might have to do with Global Foundries which bought IBM's fab in East Fishkill [1] which was a Trusted DoD Foundry [2].
Global Foundries is owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi apparently.
[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/30/regulators_ok_ibm_globalfoundries_deal/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/30/regulators_ok_ibm_gl...
[2] http://www.aerospace.org/wp-content/uploads/conferences/MRQW2013/VIB-Marrujo.pdf http://www.aerospace.org/wp-content/uploads/conferences/MRQW...
- ChuckMcM 10y agoThat DoD presentation gives a good overview of what it takes to build chips.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIt's too abstract. Most intro's to ASIC's suck with too little or too much information. Here's the best one I found that covers every single step and category in a brief way: https://www.u-cursos.cl/ingenieria/2010/2/EL653/1/material_docente/bajar?id_material=305352 https://www.u-cursos.cl/ingenieria/2010/2/EL653/1/material_d... I keep it bookmarked. Anyone wanting to learn more just has to Google the phrase in question. Only thing that's missing is shuttle runs.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoAwesome! Thanks for that link. That is pretty good too, although it ends when the die gets baked. There are testing, dicing, bondout, packaging steps after that. And not a lot of discussion about different process models (maybe they don't really have those any more)