@samyalkenawi @zleap Here's a great book to put this into a historical but also current perspective:

christophermiller.net/semicond

A very interesting read.

@zleap @samyalkenawi The book partially overlaps with Queisser's book:

goodreads.com/book/show/137478

Queisser was a pretty bigwig guy in German solid state physics, and his book (in the original Klingon titled "Crystal Crisis") served as a warning at the time (mid-80s) that Germany is not focusing on semiconductors enough. He held up Japan as a role model, which is ironic, because outside of DRAM, the Japanese did not succeed much in advanced integrated circuits. Smith's book covers that nicely.

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