This book explores the history of the microelectronics industry from the perspective of the authors who have written histories of the semiconductor industry. Both authors worked as process engineers and fab managers. It is from this unique perspective that they write the history of the industry. Their book also benefits from their network of professional contacts, which enabled them to interview key engineers and entrepreneurs and access their troves of historical documents. Oral histories and private collections are essential for reconstructing the history of semiconductors, because rare are the papers of corporations and individual engineers and managers currently in public repositories. Bauer and Wilder’s book has a dual focus: the histories of nine innovative firms (Fairchild, Hughes, Intersil, Eurosil, Intel, AMD, Integrated Device Technology, Cypress, and Micron) and the critical manufacturing processes (silicon gate, ion implantation, NMOS, CMOS, and high-speed CMOS) they developed and brought to production from the late 1950s to the 1990. The book covers new historical ground. It brings a sensibility rarely seen in the literature: an attention to people and their personalities, including the workers toiling in the fabs. It discusses at some length the character and management style of Jean Hoerni, the inventor of the planar process and the founder of Fairchild, Intersil, and Eurosil, a charming and cantankerous man, but also an inveterate philanderer. The authors grant a significant place in their narrative to operators, their relations with management, and their deep understanding of the manufacturing process. Overall, Bauer and Wilder show that production and process innovations do really matter in microelectronics. The digital revolution, they tell us,

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卢克·奥利维尔·鲍尔（Luc Olivier Bauer）和E.马歇尔·怀尔德（E. Marshall Wilder）的评论， 微芯片革命：简史 （亚马逊，2020年）

本书从撰写半导体行业历史的作者的角度探讨了微电子行业的历史。两位作者都是工艺工程师和晶圆厂经理。正是从这种独特的角度，他们写下了该行业的历史。他们的书还得益于他们的专业联系网络，这使他们能够采访关键工程师和企业家并访问他们的历史文献库。口述历史和私人收藏对于重建半导体的历史至关重要，因为目前公共存储库中的公司以及个人工程师和管理人员的论文很少。鲍尔（Bauer）和怀尔德（Wilder）的书有双重重点：九家创新公司的历史（Fairchild，Hughes，Intersil，Eurosil，Intel，AMD，Integrated Device Technology，他们开发并从1950年代后期到1990年投入生产的关键工艺（硅栅，离子注入，NMOS，CMOS和高速CMOS）以及这门关键的制造工艺。这本书涵盖了新的历史基础。它带来了文学中罕见的敏感性：对人及其个性的关注，包括在工厂里劳作的工人。它详细讨论了平面工艺的发明者，Fairchild，Intersil和Eurosil的创始人让·霍尼（Jean Hoerni）的性格和管理风格。作者在叙述操作员，与管理人员的关系以及对制造过程的深刻理解方面占有重要地位。全面的，鲍尔（Bauer）和怀尔德（Wilder）表明，生产和工艺创新对微电子学确实很重要。他们告诉我们，数字革命