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The fascinating part of this article is the path it took for FinFETs to go from a theoretical all the way to fruition. You have things like him hearing about a
by cooper12 6y ago
The fascinating part of this article is the path it took for FinFETs to go from a theoretical all the way to fruition. You have things like him hearing about a DARPA grant last-minute from a surfing buddy. He also was working in different areas throughout his career. Great quote:
> His career soon took a detour because semiconductors, he recalls, just seemed too easy. He switched to researching optical circuits, did his Ph.D. thesis on integrated optics...
- eternauta3k 6y ago> him hearing about a DARPA grant last-minute from a surfing buddy I was very disappointed to go the article and find that Hu does not in fact surf: > Hu had heard about the DARPA funding from a fellow Berkeley faculty member, Jeffrey Bokor, who, in turn, had heard about it while windsurfing with a DARPA program director