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Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD :1985-89 - The first bullet-proof multichamber, multiprocess system.
Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
This photo shows a descendant of the first Concept One, almost a decade after its original development as a convent ...
A revolution is occurring in the chip industry causing fundamental change at its market. business, and technical le ...
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Geert Follens: Promoted a clear strategy for Edwards to position itself as a strong and more sustainable industry l ...
Ultratech Stepper - Model 900 H/G Line stepper - Versatile, Adaptable, Flexible
Tom Caulfield: For GLOBALFOUNDRIES' strategic pivot to a differentiated strategy
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IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
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IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the su ...
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
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The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integrated ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
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The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predict ...
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconducto ...
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Ri ...
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
VLSI Research's History of the semiconductor equipment industry covers its devel ...
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A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in ...
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
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 ...
Rick Wallace: CEO, KLA-Tencor: KLA-Tencor and Accelerating the 45nm Yield Ramp
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the ...
William Holt: Vice President & GM, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel: St ...
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD :1985-89 - The first bullet-proof multichamb ...
Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
Advantest - 50th Anniversary :2004s
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KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
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This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a silicon wafer and down into a semicondu ...
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To help you understand how the microprocessor does its job
Lisa Su, VP of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, describes what math and science have done for her.
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