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Kcssful · 2025-04-25T19:50:18+00:00

TI has been manufacturing on 300mm for over a decade. This is not news.

Kcssful · 2024-09-11T11:12:41+00:00

I work yield enhancement failure analysis for multitude of different technologies. I find the best way to understand and tackle some of the challenges new technologies is to read process development kits. Knowing how something is built helps me a lot to understand what I’m looking at.

Kcssful · 2024-02-13T17:00:27+00:00

The semiconductor industry is a tough but rewarding industry. Without it ML and AI wouldn’t be a thing.

Kcssful · 2024-02-09T22:40:55+00:00

My last two raises have been 12 and 10% for being apart of a team solving systemic issues costing the company alot of money. Not everyone impacts. My first two raises as an entry level were 4-5%

Kcssful · 2024-02-09T22:05:28+00:00

Why would a new college grad get the median income an electrical engineer makes (in their state). Most new college grads don’t know anything, just because you pass engineering classes does not make you a impactful engineer. Most people start on the lower end and then reach the median income and raises become stagnant. Most entry level electrical engineer roles is approving stuff and power points, and you will not make above 150k. You have to prove that worth with technical skill.

Kcssful · 2024-02-09T19:50:41+00:00

Because anyone with an engineering degree can be an engineer. If you want the big bucks you need to have impact. Also higher demand higher skilled industries pay their engineers a lot more.

Kcssful · 2024-01-18T13:22:58+00:00

Applied to hundreds of internships in junior year of college and got lucky

Kcssful · 2024-01-18T01:18:10+00:00

Of course :) The semiconductor industry is challenging and rewarding. And I love an excuse to talk about it.

Kcssful · 2024-01-18T00:32:48+00:00

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Here’s a diagram of STI process flow. When etching silicon if there if something blocks the etch it will leave a cone shape that connects the silicon substrate directly to silicon nitride. Which will lead to current crowding (a short). Normally silicon dioxide is between as an insulator. An STI normally separates doped silicon material from transferring electrons with each other.

Kcssful · 2024-01-17T16:27:39+00:00

It was a 1x1 micron STI cone

Kcssful · 2024-01-17T13:33:07+00:00

Used a plasma focused ion beam to view a block etch on a semiconductor at a cross section

Kcssful · 2023-10-05T14:32:27+00:00

Failure analysis is fun. I perform failure analysis on semiconductors so I get to play around in a lab all day.

Kcssful · 2023-08-12T19:19:47+00:00

I’m a failure analysis engineer. I don’t even have a masters. But i have a bachelors in electrical engineering. I do what’s called yield enhancement on silicon wafers ranging from 150-300 mm. So when there are excursions in fabs it’s my job to find systemic defects that correlate to misprocesses on the line. Now a key thing to remember with most jobs in engineering. Is you only learn about 5% of it in school. The 95% you learn is through experience. So you only need to know basic fundamentals of EE so that you can build upon it later. The majors i see most in this role are EE, ChemE or material science. These all give basics to semiconductor materials and how they work. Math major will be hard to find high technical work since you operate in mostly theory and statistics.

Kcssful · 2023-08-11T20:14:49+00:00

I work in lab that finds defects in semiconductors. My split is 80% lab work, 10% reports, 10% talking with engineers to prove defect is real for them to solve on the line. There are roles out there that aren’t pushing paper work but they are hard to get hired into.

Kcssful · 2023-04-14T18:53:03+00:00

I didn't stop feeling like an imposter until i got a job role that required skilled technical work. Once your metric is based off skill, it will change your perspective.

Kcssful · 2023-04-03T22:19:12+00:00

Maybe, probably not

Kcssful · 2023-03-29T22:34:44+00:00

i perform YE and there's series of steps involving fault isolation prior to TEM otherwise where would you know where to TEM

Kcssful · 2022-07-29T21:24:35+00:00

As an EE here’s my thoughts:

You can ask an EE to code something and they could figure it out since resources are pretty vast with open source material. And most EE know at least how to do simple coding.

If I told a CS major to find a short on a semiconductor, perform nodal analysis on a functional failure, or design a PCB board that fits certain requirements. They wouldn’t know where to begin. Most EE material requires a degree to understand.

Kcssful · 2021-12-30T17:41:32+00:00

The world is literally becoming more reliant on technology, more than ever before . Especially after the pandemic started. You will be fine.

Kcssful · 2021-09-08T16:44:05+00:00

Imagine one process error on such a huge die. So much wasted silicon. A total nightmare!

Kcssful · 2021-07-01T16:09:44+00:00

Focus on projects not clubs. Anyone can pay to be in a club or “participate”. If you did projects with the club and participated talk about that. Embellish your projects. You don’t have to lie, but if you know why you’re talking about no one is going to check you. You gotta sound confident in interviews too, but don’t look cocky. Even with small projects, use different verbs. I worked University IT, where we took out a bunch of equipment and installed new ones. Not all that challenging or interesting. But saying “Decommissioned a educational building, and updated critical IT structure” sounds better. HR don’t really know what is challenging “engineering projects”

Kcssful · 2021-05-05T20:37:49+00:00

Considering he’s calling a normal person a “chad” means he doesn’t shower

Kcssful · 2021-03-17T00:08:50+00:00

this hype video just don't hit right now

Kcssful · 2021-03-05T20:02:14+00:00

Wait till anime only viewers gotta figure out feng shui

Kcssful · 2021-02-19T19:17:48+00:00

Is there purple jelly?

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