Silicon carbide is a key material for more efficient power electronics and going to 300 mm allows for utilizing more sophisticated fabrication equipment to drive down costs.
They have local magnet/specialized programs in CA public schools that they use to attract good students to poorly performing schools for help goose up test schools.
When Intel Custom Foundry started, Intel was in the lead with process technology and that may have led to a sense of arrogance and also apprehension about the need to open up and disclose information to third parties like design rules. Now that Intel is far behind TSMC and Samsung in semiconductor technology, they have less to lose and hopefully they have been humbled enough to be desperate for foundry customers.
As the editors note, this series is meant to be an intellectual successor to the Semiconductor Electronics Education Committee (SEEC) books that were published in the 1960s.
A few years ago I took his course on thermoelectricity and really liked his way of teaching. The videos were short and to the point and yet gave me all that I needed to know about the topic.
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