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stupid me who thought that ST is stand for Singapore Technologies luckily I should not have an interview to be accepted in this company, they will kick me out when I said that ST is stand for Singapore Technologies  but the logo on the right remind me with something familiar… I don’t know what it is, anyone know?

OK, with a help from my trusted aunt, auntie wiki, I finally know where the ST come from… STMicroelectonic (STM) is a semiconductor company, the field that I want to take as my specialization in my final year. It produce Integrated circuits for specific applications, Memories (flash, eeprom), Microcontrollers, smartcards, analog circuits power ICs , etc.

The ST group was formed in June 1987 from the merger of two semiconductor companies: the Italian company SGS Microelettronica (Società Generale Semiconduttori) and the French company Thomson Semiconducteurs, the semiconductor arm of the French company, Thomson. In May 1998, the company changed its name from SGS-THOMSON to STMicroelectronics following the withdrawal of Thomson SA.  now I know where ST comes from

1. Intel
2. Samsung Semiconductors
3. Texas Instruments
4. Toshiba Semiconductors
5. STMicroelectronics
6. Infineon (spin-off from Siemens Semiconductors)
7. Renesas (merger of Mitsubishi and Hitachi Semiconductors) N
8. EC Semiconductors
9. Philips Semiconductors
10. Freescale (ex Motorola Semiconductors)
11. Hynix
12. Micron Technology
13. Sony Semiconductors
14. Matsushita Semiconductors
15. AMD (1)
16. Qualcomm (3) (fabless)
17. Sharp Semiconductors
18. Rohm
19. IBM Microelectronics (2)
20. Broadcom (3) (fabless)

Can you see it? STM in number 5 and Micron in number 12… I just have nothing to say…

My project title is : Metrology Recipe Set-up in PVD/CVD, It looks like I will work in "clean room". For those who have no idea what the clean room is, I will explain you nothing, just see the picture below, you will get the idea….

My worksuit during my precious 22 Week Industrial Attachement. Again, I have nothing to say…..

I am a skeptic person. Arguing is my hobby, because I believe that it can lead us to the improvement. I don’t easily believe in what people say, or even a theory that have been established for a long time. I believe that something can be absolutely right when any proofs support it to be right, and if it is not, so there is always a room for improvement to make it “more right” or better for everyone. That is why we should use our brain to think, than speak up our idea, even though that’s mean we have to challenge a big thing or even ourselves. It is ok if you’re wrong, but if you’re right, you’ll be pride of yourself.

Enough for the “heavy” stuff…  Wow, it has been more than three weeks since my last post. For you who always wait for my latest post, if any of course , please accept my apology. One and the only reason is because of the full time 8.45am-51.5pm, 5 weeks long Design and Innovation Project, which has absorb all of my energy to write something here. But the good news is… it’s over!!!!!  Our group report is done, I just need to print and submit it tomorrow. Anyway, our group did not make it to the final…. So sad… with the fact that the professor who supervise us always went to final for the last four years, he must be very disappointed… I was a little bit confidence at first, but the fact shows that other group is better… so my deepest apology for Prof Eddie Wong to let you down… Thank you very much for all your help and support…

My heart beat faster a last few days waiting for the result to come out…. And the result made me quite shock, in positive ways, fortunately…. It is better than I expected, thanks God, Alhamdulillah for your help… but if you compare my result with others result, my result is far-far away below them… but I am OK with that, because… I do my best to you…. Nothing for me to do… but just one last cry… one last cry… hehehehe… GJ* mode… but honestly, far from inside my heart, I am really happy with the result…

Other thing that makes my heart beat faster is the IA allocation result today… oops… I haven’t let you know that I did not get the project from micron… yea, just as expected… but at first I thought that I was the only one who did the interview for that post, and being rejected without competitor is nothing but shameless…  but I was wrong, there is one more student applied for that post (duh… so many project, why do you choose the same project with me… ), and SHE, yea.. she is a eureka student, which means a dean list student, and also means she is and straight As student…. Oh no, not straight As, because she also has A+ and distinction… hahahaha… at least I lost with proud…. Hahahaha….

But again, fortunately I got my second choice… STMicroelectronic, and actually the project in this company is more related with the specialization that I want to take in my final year… again, Alhamdulillah… thanks God to give me the best for me… this post is quite long already, I will briefly introduce STM in the next post…

Wah, when I reread this post I feel like a wise man… hehehehe…. I am getting older what? Maybe it naturally happens that I become wiser… huhuhuhu