At Kodiak we now have a weekly, non-obligatory assembly known as Lunch & Study, the place any person within the firm talks about one thing they know effectively.
Often the subject is expounded to, however not strictly part of, Kodiak and autonomous trucking. And, normally, the format is for the session chief to play a video and add some feedback. That’s quite a bit simpler than arising with an hour-long lecture from scratch.
This week, we realized about silicon chips, together with why chips have been briefly provide in automotive business.
We watched a sequence of movies, together with this video by TechAltar: “Why making chips is so onerous.”
The video highlights 5 areas required for chips:
- Instruction Set Structure
- Chip Design
- Fabrication
- Tools & Software program
- Packaging
Of these, fabrication looks as if the toughest, because of the large capital investments required for fabrication gear.
The entire video is nice and value a watch.
A bonus query any person requested in our session, that’s not addressed by the video: why are silicon wafers spherical?
Reply: silicon ingots are shaped by the Czochralski methodology, which mainly entails melting an ingot and letting it unfold out from the middle. This ends in spherical wafers.
