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Semiconductor companies in Ireland

  • 22-09-2012 10:36am
    #1
    mcdbd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭


    Can anyone give me a list of these. Thank you.


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  • #2
    InvisibleBadger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭InvisibleBadger


    Intel
    On Semiconductor
    Analog Devices
    Maxim

    I only know of Intel and Analog actually making parts here though, not sure about the rest


  • #3
    mcdbd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭mcdbd


    Do they take on Physics graduates as research assistants? I did some research and they seem to be more interested in Engineering graduates. I'm not sure who I could approach to talk about this.


  • #4
    nbar12
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    InvisibleBadger wrote: »
    Intel
    On Semiconductor
    Analog Devices
    Maxim

    I only know of Intel and Analog actually making parts here though, not sure about the rest

    yeah Maxim don't make parts here in Ireland, they do that in their labs in America, Philippines and Thailand


  • #5
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    mcdbd wrote: »
    Do they take on Physics graduates as research assistants? I did some research and they seem to be more interested in Engineering graduates. I'm not sure who I could approach to talk about this.

    You have to find out who does their research, and where that research is done.

    They don't really do research at the factories - that's where they make stuff. So, they're more interested in engineering graduates. Who can fix the machines and keep them ticking over. In fact they're more interest in people who are not graduates and who will just press buttons.

    Companies like Intel will sometimes directly sponsor research in universities. The big semiconductor companies - semiconductor mass producers - tend to use a lot of small subcontractors. Small companies who only do research. People like ARM do not produce chips. They do designs. They do the research work. Or a company like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Semiconductor_Limited . They are a fabless semiconductor business. Fabless means, they do not fabricate their chips.

    And beneath the big fabless semiconductor businesses are scores of even smaller ones.

    There are electronics industry trade magazines. One of them - I can't remember the name of - has a free subscription - they post you a glossy every month. The companies doing research do not produce consumer devices, so you would never normally hear of them outside industry sources.

    The research firms tend to be clustered in places like Silicon Valley. But they're all over the place. There isn't really much in Ireland though.


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