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The cleanroom was invented in the early 1960s by Willis Whitfield, while working at Sandia National Laboratories so ...
Judy Davies- All Star 2019: Developing and running the most innovative Corporate Communication programs among semic ...
Kate Wilson- All Star 2019: Instrumental in developing and driving Edwards' technology leadership through critical ...
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Karl Nicklaus created one of the most longest-lived equipment companies in history
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How EDA evolved from crude mainframes that could hardly draw a line, to today's hierarchical software that keeps tr ...
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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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When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
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Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
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