Semiconductors are to the information age what engines are to the industrial age. Chips are the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, and the fractional horsepower engine rolled up into one. The Chip History Center is dedicated to preserving that history for future generations.
Silicon mythology has it that node progression is predictable and constant. In r ...
How consolidation in the semiconductor industry benefited customers.
Consolidation in the Semiconductor Industry is strange because of the way the in ...
IBM had a very complex set of issues to resolve, making it far more than just a ...
Also known as DPT, or dual pattern technology, for exposing semiconductor wafers ...
Factoids from the edge: Some like to say that EUV development has cost more than ...
This has become one of the most controversial semiconductor topics of the year. ...
One of only 3 logic research centers in the world, the business case for IBM Sem ...
The new semiconductor market structure, the return of horizontals, and the strat ...
The Chip Insider's Cook’s Tour: A deep immersion course in what IBM was doing ...
At ISSCC, someone predicted that fabs would soon cost $100B. Do you agree (we do ...
Sunlin Chou discusses how managing these parameters have evolved over time, in t ...
Hans Stork discusses trends in the level of customer involvement during technolo ...
In this historic 2003 video, Hans Stork discusses the status of Low-k Interconne ...
Hans Stork discusses the future of photonics and optical interconnect in this hi ...
Hans Stork addresses the role E-beam maskless lithography for low-volume semicon ...
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited a cra ...
Starting a silicon revolution, also known as the “Fairchild Brain Drain,” Bo ...
One of the most interesting questions to answer is why are Megafabs so popular? ...
Mark Bohr, Intel Fellow, Director of Process Architecture and Integration discus ...
Apple's first iPhone pricing gaff of having to take a $200 haircut from its orig ...
The launch of Intel’s Centrino in 2003 marks move that took laptop PCs into th ...
Historical perspective on Moore’s Law and its affects on everyday life and eco ...
Mark Bohr discusses process technology development on Intel's 65nm Process in th ...
Mark Bohr, Intel Senior Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group discusses mov ...
Will rising Wafer Fab Costs & Moore's Second Law bring an end to Moore's Law. Th ...
In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. Even ...
Ever wonder how the nanochips you see in pictures wind up covered in plastic on ...
This video is a manufacturing IT case study that shows Intel's first true 300mm ...
Mark Jagiela, President of Teradyne's Semiconductor ATE Group, on consolidation ...
Mark Jagiela, President of Teradyne's Semiconductor ATE Group, on what will be t ...
In 2003, Bernie Meyerson, CTO at IBM's Microelectronics Division, shocked the wo ...
The development of Hi-k Dielectric Materials mark a key turning point in the his ...
Bob Halliday, Executive VP & CFO, Varian Semiconductor talks about managing the ...
Mark Jagiela, President of Teradyne's Semiconductor ATE Group, on the question o ...
Mark Jagiela, President of Teradyne Semi Group, on... Is it possible to have a n ...
System On Chip -SOC- began to emerge as the 90's came to a close and Taiwan's fo ...
The industry's transition to 300mm Semiconductor Wafers almost stalled in 1998, ...
300mm wafer development in the mid-90s failed as a silicon cycle downturn took t ...
All technology revolutions are not so easy. other than in 20:20 hindsight. The i ...
The Asian Financial Crisis was upon us and 300mm wafer fabs were on the horizon. ...
The 5 strategic causes behind the long-term failure of Japan’s Semiconductor i ...
The transition from aluminum to copper wiring in semiconductor process technolog ...
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi ...
Technology, Circa 1991 – As lithography moved into ever lower k factors, the c ...
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the success ...
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introduction
Applied Materials’ Producer marked an important turning point in the history o ...
IBM is using 1X x-ray lithography to expose the gate level of 0.15 micron PowerP ...
Intel's Overlooked Advantage: A Case Study in Why Manufacturing Matters
Important events and trends were in 1997 for the semiconductor industry
Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be disprove ...
Today the company is known as Verigy and they are considered a powerhouse of sem ...
An early excimer laser stepper for 0.45 micron.
X-Ray Exposure technology has long been said to be the technology of tomorrow. T ...
Back in the early eighties people dressed up in hot, humid and extremely uncomfo ...
Just as the first lights of a new millennium were dawning in 1999, ASML announce ...
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this ...
Applied Materials - The Mirra CMP System - The first CMP tool that was really re ...
Most assume it has been paint by the numbers for Intel, since IBM first selected ...
The technology story of the 60s was about the rise of computer giants, with IBM ...
The source of Japan’s failure to move forward is mostly about the failure of the ...
The Drytek DRIE 100 plasma etcher was the template for all cluster tools that wo ...
Takeda Riken, the antecedent to Advantest, built it's brand on Semiconductor ATE ...
Takeda Riken announces plans to enter the US ATE (automatic test equipment) mark ...
Takeda Riken, the antecedent to Advantest, was hardly known outside Japan in 198 ...
The Dawn of the CD SEM came with Hitachi’s (now Hitachi High-Technologies) add ...
Technology, Circa 1981 – It's often the overlooked news that turn out to be cr ...
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
Lam Research’s AutoEtch 480 was a landmark in the history of plasma etchers. ...
Applied Materials - AME 8100 Batch Etcher :1980-84 - The blockbuster that remapp ...
KLA's Reticle Inspection System was the first automatic inspection system to ens ...
Megatest's MegaOne was the system that sparked the tester-per-pin revolution (19 ...
The dawn of automated inspection. KLA's mask inspection tools took over to see w ...
Semiconductor History being made in the 1980’s The founding of TSMC on Febr ...
In the early eighties virtually every company was seeking entry into the equipme ...
Remember when Varian was in the lithography business? You dont? Well, this was o ...
Nat was one of the prime movers of EUV and without his perseverance, EUV may ne ...
Here is the first true lights-out-fab. Since the beginning of the industry the d ...
Applied Materials - Precision 5000 CVD, The blockbuster that made cluster tool a ...
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
One of the most celebrated companies in the equipment industry, Lam was once a s ...
In 1983 the semiconductor equipment industry was coming out of a two-year slow-d ...
They had the world on a string and were sitting on a rainbow, but had no idea of ...
Well known in the U.S. as a Marubeni import, Shinkawa’s wire bonders had also ...
This photo shows a descendant of the first Concept One, almost a decade after it ...
The Karl Suss company was one of the first companies to explore commercial X-Ray ...
The push for sub-micron line features sprouted several experimental attempts, am ...
This system, from about 1988, represents one of the most successful tungsten dep ...
High-energy ion implanters, typically in the range of 1 to 3 MEV, were originall ...
Not many commercial machines get more exotic than this. It even looks like somet ...
The 3180 was the blockbuster of the early eighties. The 3280 was an extension of ...
If this photo looks a bit ghostly that’s because it is. We have no surviving p ...
What the cutting edge of etching looked like in 1980
When I first visited this company in the early seventies, it was known as Dainip ...
For years the Coyote held a favored spot among users as the best little CVD syst ...
The first commercial American X-ray lithography system.
The tool that sparked the yield management revolution.
A 6th gen maskless litho tool from the early 80's.
Rare captively made stepper with a Minolta Lens
High Voltage Engineering shipped the first commercial Ion Implanter, built in 19 ...
Here is another excellent example of an early Second Optical Inspection Station ...
Wafer Cleaning was the continual Achilles’ heel of the semiconductor industry. ...
Though not as elegantly encased as the Perkin-Elmer 100, here was Japan’s answ ...
Cameca was a European based attempt from the research department of Thomson CSF ...
Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment bus ...
Here are two fine examples of third optical inspection systems when such systems ...
The AMI Model 2100 is an excellent representative of Second Optical Inspection s ...
Here is the machine that changed the industry. Numerous companies had been tryin ...
The development came from an unlikely company: Perkin Elmer. Dave Markle was the ...
SEMI's Great Moments in Semiconductor History: The conception of the SEMICON tra ...
Ever wonder what economic impact mask technology innovation has had? Any idea of ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
Cobilt - Autofab, Inline Resist Processing System
Not the first such system, but near the first.
Possibly the 1st high speed, high pin count, LSI Test System.
Here is a workhorse of the early industry, the Teledyne TAC model XY540 wafer pr ...
Arguably the best stepper of its day, based on resale values.
This superb article, about the birth of the Perkin Elmer Projection Scanning Ali ...
The Intel secret weapon that turned the industry upside-down and revolutionized ...
Accelerators Inc was one of the three or four early implementers of ion implante ...
You might think that some of the early glass deposition systems looked like gran ...
The semiconductor industry was plunging rapidly into alloy deposition to overcom ...
This little bench-top tester was a real Mighty Mouse© as the sixties ended and ...
One of the first commercial high current ion implanters.
8008- 8 bit parallel central proccessing unit.
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of ...
Remember air track? It was all the rage in the days when technocool won out ove ...
Here is the Mann and the man that together started two revolutions in the semico ...
Possibly the only successful high pressure system.
Proximity aligners were a bridge tool between the original contact aligners and ...
MX-17 LSI Test System by Adar Associates, Inc...
Adar Doctor 32 RAM/ROM Memory Tester.....
This photo from the AI 400 series high energy implanters is one of the earliest ...
Applied Materials led the way out of selling products to seeking solutions to cu ...
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