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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (133977)5/2/2001 1:26:45 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
One more question. Process experts appear to be chemists or chemical engineers rather than electrical engineers? If so, why?

Ahhhhh... well dahhhhh.



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (133977)5/2/2001 1:31:04 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 186894
 
McJimbo - Re: 'Process experts appear to be chemists or chemical engineers rather than electrical engineers? "

Good observation - and you can add Materials Science majors as well. [Then throw in MEs and EEs and whatever for equipment engineers.]

Wafer fab processes are materials oriented and involve chemicals, plasma processing, oxidation, diffusion, ion implantation - these are areas covered by Chem. E and Materials Science.

EEs are useful for actual circuit design and verification and testing.

Paul



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (133977)5/2/2001 1:32:16 AM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 186894
 
Re: "When you send all the information to a 3rd party fab don't you run the risk of having your design,or parts of it, ripped off at a later date?"

Sure - it's a risk.

But the design is only one piece of the puzzle - testing it is another.

Paul



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (133977)5/2/2001 1:40:58 AM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 186894
 
McJimbo - re: "BTW, what did they do at that Penang plant? "

I heard they burned it down.

Paul


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