Chris Miller, "Chip War"

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Chris Miller, "Chip War: The Fight For The World's

Most Critical Technology" (2022)

 

뉴욕 타임즈 서평

 

재밌게 읽힌다. 아무렇게 책장을 펼쳐도 흥미로운 일화를 만난다.

그래서 더 선택적으로 읽을 만큼만 읽고 얼른 책을 도서관에 반납했다:

Ch. 23 "My Enemy's Enemy": The Rise of Korea

(80년대 초 삼성이 모험적으로 반도체 칩 생산에 투자하고, 마침

미국의 일본 견제 덕을 본 이야기);

Ch 29 "We Want a Semiconductor Industry in Taiwan";

Ch 32 Lithography Wars; Ch 39 EUV;

Part VIII The Chip Choke.

 

 

아래는 책에서:

 

Chip from Taiwan provide 37 percent of the world's new computing power each year. Two Korean companies produce 44 percent of memory chips. The Dutch company ASML builds 100 percent of the  world's extreme ultraviolet [light with a wavelengh of 13.5 nanometers] lithography machines, without which cutting-edge chips are simply impossible to make. (p. xxv)

 

Excluding the chips Intel builds in-house, all the most advanced logic chips are fabricated by just two companies, Samsung and TSMC [Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing Company], both located in countries that rely on the U.S. military for theie security. Moreover, making advanced processors requires EUV lithography machines produced by just one ecomany, the Netherland's ASML, which in turn relies on its

San Diego subsidiay, Cymer(which it purchased in 2013), to supply the irreplaceable light sources in its EUV lithography tools. (p. 315)

 

John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor, but it was theie Bell Lab colleagues Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng [강대원] who devised a transistor structure that could be mass-produced. (p. 346)

 

Morris Chang wanted to become the Gutenberg of the digital era. He ended up vastly more powerful. Hardly anyone realized it at the time, but Chang, TSMC, and Taiwan were on a path toward dominating the production of the world's most advanced chips. (p. 169)

 

ASML itself only produced 15 percent of an EUV tool components ... buying the rest from other firms.. This let it access the world's most finely engineered goods. (p. 229)

 

The concept [of EUV lithography] remained much the same as jay Lathrop's upside-down microscope. (p. 225)