What's the best book on how Moore's Law actually happened (ie: the actual technical improvements that made it possible to keep shrinking semiconductor components)?
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The relationship between Moore’s Law and Wright’s Law is an interesting one too that could be worth exploring
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Chip War is surprisingly detailed on this, but it’s a history book not a technical book
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it's all tradecraft that was never recorded. micro example: try figure out how they got copper interconnects working in the late 90s
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There’s no single book.
There are also tons and tons of trade secrets, so a lot of stuff isn’t recorded.
You have to piece this together from many sources, and each source only gets a fraction of things correct (and others straight up wrong), eg:
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I mean I have electrical engineering textbooks but I'm not sure that's what you want
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