Entering the chip industry is a field full of challenges but also opportunities. Whether as an engineer, designer, salesperson or manager, the following are some little knowledge about entering the chip industry.
1. What is IC
The English abbreviation of integrated circuit is called IC, and IC is integrated circuit. If someone tells you that he is in the IT industry, then you can tell him that I am in the IC industry.
2. What is the essence of the chip
No matter how tall and sophisticated it looks, the most essential thing of a chip is the circuit, after all, it is also called an integrated circuit. Circuits are the knowledge we have learned in junior high school physics. The difficulty is how to combine the chip functions we need to achieve with simple circuits.
Generally speaking, the function that the chip needs to realize is that when we power it on, input a signal, and after it is processed by the chip box, it can output another correct signal.
3. Chips, integrated circuits, microelectronics, semiconductors, PCB boards, can't tell?
The PCB board is a printed circuit board. Open any electronic product, and the circuit board inside can be called a PCB board. Integrated circuit refers to the integration on a small silicon chip. A chip is a packaged (packaged) integrated circuit that can be made on a PCB. Microelectronics refers to the discipline that studies integrated circuits. Semiconductors are materials used to manufacture integrated circuits, and silicon is the most widely used semiconductor. Generally, the chip industry is also called the semiconductor industry.
4. Chips are divided into two categories. One is called a digital chip, and the other is called an analog chip.
The digital chip is mainly responsible for computing tasks, and it processes signals of 0 and 1. The analog chip is mainly responsible for processing sound, light heat, force and other signals from nature.
5. The chip industry chain is very long
Therefore, a chip is likely to be designed, manufactured, and packaged by three different companies. Each process has a huge market. If a company can do all the processes by itself, it is called DM (Integrated Device Manufacture, vertically integrated manufacturer). Samsung Semiconductor is a typical IDM company.
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