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Lunch And Be taught: Laptop Chips. At Kodiak we’ve got a weekly, optionally available… | by David Silver | Self-Driving Vehicles

At Kodiak we’ve got a weekly, optionally available assembly known as Lunch & Be taught, the place any person within the firm talks about one thing they know effectively.

Normally the subject is said 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 lots simpler than developing with an hour-long lecture from scratch.

This week, we discovered about silicon chips, together with why chips have been in brief provide in automotive trade.

We watched a sequence of movies, together with this video by TechAltar: “Why making chips is so exhausting.”

The video highlights 5 areas required for chips:

  1. Instruction Set Structure
  2. Chip Design
  3. Fabrication
  4. Tools & Software program
  5. Packaging

Of these, fabrication looks like the toughest, because of the huge capital investments required for fabrication tools.

The entire video is nice and value a watch.

A bonus query any person requested in our session, that isn’t addressed by the video: why are silicon wafers spherical?

Reply: silicon ingots are fashioned by the Czochralski technique, which mainly entails melting an ingot and letting it unfold out from the middle. This ends in spherical wafers.

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