The Semiconductor Supply Chain: Assessing National Competitiveness
by Saif M. Khan, Alexander Mann, Dahlia Peterson · Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
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.
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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.