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Today the company is known as Verigy and they are considered a powerhouse of semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment ...
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of Intel’s MPUs from the 4004 throug ...
Applied Materials - Precision 5000 CVD, The blockbuster that made cluster tool a household name (at least in fab ho ...
In 1983 the semiconductor equipment industry was coming out of a two-year slow-down and was about to be caught up i ...
How he turned a technology, critial to the future of Moore's Law and the semiconductor industry, into a success.
A conversation with Sunlin Chou, discussing the history of research at Intel. Sunlin Chou, who retired in May of 2 ...
This photo shows a descendant of the first Concept One, almost a decade after its original development as a convent ...
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Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be dis ...
In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. ...
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey acr ...
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD :1985-89 - The first bullet-proof multi ...
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? ...
The Future of Integrated Electronics
Dan Maydan gives his tips about how to be successful running a technology c ...
Andy Grove talks at IMEC 2004 - the Intel Manufacturing Excellence Conferen ...
Will rising Wafer Fab Costs & Moore's Second Law bring an end to Moore's La ...
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
Possibly the only successful high pressure system.
MX-17 LSI Test System by Adar Associates, Inc...
This photo from the AI 400 series high energy implanters is one of the earliest decent photos from the time.
Arguably the best stepper of its day, based on resale values.
Early resist processing systems were notoriously difficult to keep running. They either gummed up or started breaking wa ...
Fairchild lead the industry from mesa-transistors to diffusion using Jean Hoerni's planar process, which would lay the f ...
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of Intel’s MPUs from the 4004 through th ...
This logic tester represented another early attempt at capturing the automatic test equipment market.
This video is a manufacturing IT case study that shows Intel's first true 300mm ...
A Presentation Draft: 1980
One of the most celebrated companies in the equipment industry, Lam was once a scrappy start-up taking on far larger com ...
In 2004, ASML turned 20. This book was originally published to give employees an insight into the history of ASML and a ...
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three Semicon trade shows covered the entire world?
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late seventies to early eighties.
VLSI Research's History of the Equipment Industry
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
The history and accomplishments of the Semiconductor Research Corporation
This video describes one of the most important factors in how AMD surged ahead to become a world leader in semiconductor ...
This video was shot inside a 200mm fab at Intel's Hudson, Massachusetts factory.
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
Dan Maydan gives his tips about how to be successful running a technology compan ...
Charlie Sporck reflects back on what he learned over the years, offering his adv ...
In this segment, Wilf Corrigan details the structural ingredients of the ASIC se ...
A conversation with Sunlin Chou, discussing the history of research at Intel. S ...
Mihir on the History of Automation in the Semiconductor Industry
Jim Morgan talks about the early days of Applied Materials; how he brought focus ...
Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money lose ...
Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, describes why America is losing its edge and w ...
Robert Noyce has been called the father of Silicon Valley. A giant among giants, ...
Applied Materials - Precision Etch 8300 :1985-89 - The extension of the blockbuster that remapped the etch market.
Applied Materials - AMS 2000 Silox Reactor :1970s
Applied Materials - Nitrox AMN-710 :1960s - Improved yields by sealing oxide pin holes.
The LS22 Series of large substrate spinners is designed for versatility, ease of use and safety in a variety of manual a ...
Advantest - Excerpt from 1986 Annual Report :1986s
Takeda Riken - Article 1982 :1982s
Advantest - 50th Anniversary :2004s
Watch circuit test system 193A
Takeda Riken – Excerpt from 1983 Annual Report :1983s
Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System :1985-89
Ever wonder how the nanochips you see in pictures wind up covered in plastic on ...
Dr. Jack Horner, “The Dinosaur Guy,” describes the biological challenges in ...
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as t ...
Ever wonder how innovation really happens? Think it's someone sitting back and d ...
How We Do It . . .
Per-Ove Hansson on using Math & Science and getting paid good money to see the w ...
Find out what it's like to be working in the clean room.
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a ...
Making chips is about driving machines better than a Formula 1 to their limit.
To help you understand how the microprocessor does its job
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