Chapter 1: Introduction
Current market situation In 2024, global consumer electronics market sales were between $1.2 billion and $1.3 billion. With a predictive CAGR of ~6.6% through 2030. Whereas, Global semiconductor sales were clocked at just below $700 billion. Due to multi-billion USD investements and local government's incentive towards "Semicon India", India seems to be the fastest growing semiconductor market with a projected CAGR of 13-15% through 2025-2030. Short historical timeline 1958: Jack Kilby from Texas Instruments invented the first Germanium (Ge) based IC. 1959: Robert Noyce from Fairchild Semiconductor modified it to Si-based IC, bringing this technology closer to high-volume manufacturing (HVM). 1980: Beginning of Computer Integrated Monitoring of ICs (IC-CIM), which improved productivity in the IC manufacturing process. Introduction to p-n junction fabrication process A p-n junction diode is one of the most fundamental semiconductor devices. It consists of two regions of do...