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.
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi-process system. It would become th ...
How some Japanese companies thrived in spite of the many challenges of the lost decades.
One of the most celebrated companies in the equipment industry, Lam was once a scrappy start-up taking on far large ...
The industry's transition to 300mm Semiconductor Wafers almost stalled in 1998, when the Asian Financial Crisis hit ...
Few inventions have proven to be as the integrated circuit....
IC Timeline a special presentation of The Chip History Center.
One of the most interesting questions to answer is why are Megafabs so popular? Megafabs, or fabs with 80K or more ...
The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore for Electronics Magazine while he worked ...
The semiconductor industry has always worked hard to have and to maintain extremely high health and safety levels.
This virtual museum of semiconductor history is built on the unique combination of VLSIresearch’s
library, the deep knowledge of its analysts from around the globe with 100’s of years of experience,
VLSI’s centricity in Silicon Valley’s lifestyle and culture of innovation, and its unparalleled network
that stretched deep into the IC manufacturing industry. It would start with some of the earliest
events, such as the invention of The Field Effect Transistor (FET) in 1925 by Julius E. Lilienfeld in 1925 — yes that’s right 1925! While William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain often credited with the invention of the transistor, they actually only discovered it as it had been invented 22 years earlier.
Since 2004, The Chip History Center has been able to provide easy-to-access and free information to researchers, historians, and educators with its Time Lines, Exhibits, and collections centered around the products and companies who have been at the center of this transformation.
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the su ...
How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies of the ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the success ...
Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integrated ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Who really invented the Integrated Circuit? In this video, Dan Hutcheson has a c ...
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predict ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years of award winning semicon ...
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Ri ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconducto ...
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the ...
William Holt: Striking the Right Balance Between Manufacturing Costs and Design ...
Rick Wallace: CEO, KLA-Tencor: KLA-Tencor and Accelerating the 45nm Yield Ramp
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in ...
Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
Alex describes the second phase of Teradyne history and how they built the compa ...
How the SIA got started is an video interview with the legendary Wilf Corrigan w ...
Advantest turned 50 on July 1, 2004. It was a milestone for one of Japan's greatest tech companies. This documents that ...
KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered ...
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi ...
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a silicon wafer and down into a semicondu ...
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as televisions, cars, radios, home appliance ...
Lisa Su, VP of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, describes what math and science have done for her.
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