Books

Business

---

• Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
  by Robert X. Cringely
• Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American
  by Richard Tedlow
• Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World
  by Henry Kressel & Thomas V. Lento
• Geek Silicon Valley: The Inside Guide to Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco
  by Ashlee Vance
• High Output Management
  by Andrew S. Grove
• Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company
  by Tim Jackson
• Inside the Minds: The Semiconductor Industry - CEOs from Micron, Xilinx, On Semiconductor & More on the Future of the Semiconductor Revolution
• Introduction to Semiconductor Marketing
  by Alireza Servati & Anthony, R Simon
• Losing Faith: How the (Andy) Grove Survivors Led the Decline of Intel's Corporate Culture
  by Bob Coleman & Logan Shrine
• Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
  by Andrew S. Grove
• Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation
  by Annabelle Gaweri & Michael A. Cusumano
• Strategy Is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future
  by Robert Burgelman & Andrew S. Grove
• Swimming Across: A Memoir
  by Andrew S. Grove

Computer Architecture and Digital Techniques

---

• Digital Electronics: A Practical Approach (8th Edition)
  by William Kleitz
• Digital Electronics: Principles, Devices and Applications
  by Anil Kumar Maini
• Digital Fundamentals (10th Edition)
  by Thomas L. Floyd
• Introduction to Digital Electronics
  by Ken Reid & Robert Dueck
• Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk
  by Bruce Jacob, Spencer Ng, and David Wang

Digital Design

---

• Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits
  by David A. Hodges
• CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation (Second Edition)
  by R. Jacob Baker
• CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Analysis & Design
  by Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang & Yusuf Leblebici
• Digital Systems Design Using VHDL
  by Jr., Charles H. Roth & Lizy K. John
• Design for Manufacturability and Yield for Nano-Scale CMOS
  by Charles Chiang & Jamil Kawa
• DRAM Circuit Design: Fundamental and High-Speed Topics (Second Edition)
  by Brent Keeth, R. Jacob Baker, Brian Johnson, and Feng Lin
• DRAM Circuit Design: A Tutorial
  by Brent Keeth & R. Jacob Baker
• Power Integrity Modeling and Design for Semiconductors and Systems
  by Madhavan Swaminathan & Ege Engin
• SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features
  by Chris Spear
• Verilog for Digital Design
  by Frank Vahid & Roman Lysecky

Electronics

---

• The Art of Electronics
  by Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill
• Introduction to Electronic Circuit Design
  by Richard Spencer & Mohammed Ghausi
• Lead-Free Electronics: iNEMI Projects Lead to Successful Manufacturing
  by Edwin Bradley, Carol A. Handwerker, Jasbir Bath, Richard D. Parker, and Ronald W. Gedney

Embedded Systems

---

• Embedded Computing: A VLIW Approach to Architecture, Compilers and Tools
  by Joseph A. Fisher, Paolo Faraboschi, and Cliff Young
• Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs
  by Jari Nurmi

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

---

• Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms and Applications
  by Sanguthevar Rajasekaran & John Reif
• Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications
  by David A. Bader

History

---

• Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
  by Joel N. Shurkin
• The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
  by T.R. Reid
• Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age
  by Michael Riordan & Lillian Hoddeson
• DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation
  by Edgar H. Schein, Paul J. Kampas, Michael Sonduck, and Peter Delisi
• A History of Modern Computing (Second Edition)
  by Paul E. Ceruzzi
• The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
  by Leslie Berlin
• The Microprocessor: A Biography
  by Michael S. Malone
• On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
  by Brian Bagnall
• The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips
  by Robert P. Colwell
• The Soul Of A New Machine
  by Tracy Kidder
• True Genius: The Life And Science Of John Bardeen, The only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics
  by Lillian Hoddeson & Vicki Daitch

Processor Architecture and Design

---

• HyperTransport System Architecture
  by MindShare, Jay Trodden & Don Anderson
• Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture
  by Jon Stokes
• Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors
  by John P. Shen
• VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design
  by Lee Weng Fook

Semiconductors

---

• Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals (Second Edition)
  by Robert F. Pierret
• Design for Manufacturability and Statistical Design: A Constructive Approach
  by Michael Orshansky, Sani Nassif, and Duane Boning
• The Essential Guide to Semiconductors
  by Jim Turley
• Fabrication Engineering at the Micro and Nanoscale
  by Stephen A. Campbell
• Fundamentals of Semiconductor Manufacturing and Process Control
  by Gary S. May & Costas J. Spanos
• Future Trends in Microelectronics: Up the Nano Creek
  by Serge Luryi, Jimmy Xu, and Alex Zaslavsky
• Germanium-Based Technologies: From Materials to Devices
  by Cor Claeys & Eddy Simoen
• Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (Second Edition)
  by Robert Doering & Yoshio Nishi
• Introduction to Microelectronic Fabrication: Volume 5 of Modular Series on Solid State Devices (Second Edition)
  by Richard C. Jaeger
• Microchip Fabrication (5th Edition)
  by Peter Van Zant
• Microchip Manufacturing
  by Stanley Wolf
• Microlithography: Science and Technology (Second Edition)
  by Kazuaki Suzuki & Bruce W. Smith
• MOS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Physics and Technology
  by E.H. Nicollian & J.R. Brews
• Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices
  by Andrew S. Grove
• Physics of Semiconductor Devices
  by Simon M. Sze
• Principles of Lithography, Second Edition
  by Harry J. Levinson
• Semiconductor Device Fundamentals
  by Robert F. Pierret
• Semiconductor Device Physics and Design
  by Umesh Mishra and Jasprit Singh
• Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology (Second Edition)
  by Simon M. Sze
• Semiconductor Fundamentals, Volume I (Second Edition)
  by Robert F. Pierret
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Handbook
  by Hwaiyu Geng
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology
  by Michael Quirk & Julian Serda
• Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization
  by Dieter K. Schroder
• Silicon Processing for the VLSI Era, Vol. 1: Process Technology
  by Stanley Wolf & Richard N. Tauber
• Silicon Processing for the VLSI Era, Vol. 4: Deep-Submicron Process Technology
  by Stanley Wolf
• Silicon VLSI Technology: Fundamentals, Practice, and Modeling
  by James D. Plummer, Michael D. Deal, and Peter B. Griffin
• Understanding Fabless IC Technology
  by Jeorge S. Hurtarte, Evert A. Wolsheimer, and Lisa M. Tafoya
• VLSI Circuit Design Methodology Demystified: A Conceptual Taxonomy
  by Liming Xiu

Systems

---

• Upgrading and Repairing Laptops (Second Edition)
  by Scott Mueller
• Upgrading and Repairing PCs (17th Edition)
  by Scott Mueller

Virtual Machines

---

• Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes
  by James E. Smith & Ravi Nair

Writing Proper English

---

• The Careful Writer
  by Theodore M. Bernstein
• The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition)
  by University of Chicago Press Staff
• The Classic Guide to Better Writing
  by Rudolf Flesch and A.H. Lass
• The Complete Plain Words
  by Sir Ernest Gowers, edited by Sidney Greenbaum & Janet Whitcut
• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Second Edition)
  by H.W. Fowler, revised and edited by Sir Ernest Gowers
• The Elements of Style (Fourth Edition)
  by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White
• Fowler's Modern English Usage
  by R.W. Burchfield
• Garner's Modern American Usage
  by Bryan A. Garner
• Grammatically Correct
  by Anne Stilman
• The Gregg Reference Manual (10th Edition)
  by William A. Sabin
• Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English
  by Eric Partridge, edited by Janet Whitcut
• Words into Type (Third Edition)
  by Marjorie E. Skillin, Robert M. Gay e.a.