Semiconductor "Course"
by Jon Y · Asianometry
Jon Y's researched video essays collected into a semiconductor sequence: EUV lithography and how ASML beat Nikon and Canon, photoresist chemistry, deposition and etch, packaging, foundry economics, and the equipment supply chain behind advanced nodes. Unusually source-grounded for YouTube — names specific tools, chemistries and companies rather than restating 'sand to chips' analogies.
More resources on Semiconductors & Chip Manufacturing
The Semiconductor Supply Chain: Assessing National Competitiveness
Policy brief mapping the supply chain segment by segment — design and EDA, fabrication equipment, materials, foundries, assembly and test — with value-added shares by country and an assessment of where the United States and allied nations hold chokepoint leverage.
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
History of the semiconductor industry from Shockley and Fairchild through Japan's rise, TSMC's foundry model, ASML's lithography monopoly and present-day export controls, arguing why fabrication capacity and tooling became instruments of state power. Prize-winning archival history, not a journalist's recap.
Modern Semiconductor Devices for Integrated Circuits
Written by the person whose transistor architecture and compact models the industry runs on. Device-physics textbook released by its author as free chapter PDFs. Covers electrons and holes in semiconductors, motion and recombination, device fabrication technology, PN and metal-semiconductor junctions, the MOS capacitor, MOSFET operation, scaling and leakage, and bipolar transistors.
Semiconductor Fabrication 101
The people who actually run production processes wrote it. It covers the full unit-process sequence wafer-to-package rather than an analogy-driven overview, and the vFabLab simulation forces process-order reasoning. Free self-paced course covering industry-standard fabrication: oxidation, thermal diffusion and ion implantation, lithography, wet and reactive ion etching, thin-film deposition, CMP, interconnects and advanced packaging. Includes equipment video tutorials and vFabLab, a virtual cleanroom simulation.