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Tom Caulfield: For GLOBALFOUNDRIES' strategic pivot to a differentiated strategy
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Patrick Lord: Delivered substantial growth to Lam Research
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SEMI's poster that shows the history of semiconductor start-ups in Silicon Valley.
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the successful culmination of a decade-long se ...
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