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1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
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Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
How Power Performance and Cost relate to Moore's Law
Gordon Moore and Andy Grove talk about Intel’s history.
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Sanjay Jha: For shepherding New York’s semiconductor research brain trust from IBM to GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Lam Research’s AutoEtch 480 was a landmark in the history of plasma etchers.
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The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore ...
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How Power Performance and Cost relate to Moore's Law
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Not the first such system, but near the first.
Arguably the best stepper of its day, based on resale values.
Possibly the only successful high pressure system.
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MX-17 LSI Test System by Adar Associates, Inc...
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The system that built the company.
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A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
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Go inside a 200mm fab at Intel's Fab 17 Hudson, Massachusetts factory as it exis ...
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A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
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Jim Morgan talks about the early days of Applied Materials; how he brought focus ...
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Alex d'Arbeloff's essential rules for running a semiconductor equipment company
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Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money lose ...
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Advantest - Excerpt from 1986 Annual Report :1986s
Watch circuit test system 193A
Applied Materials - AMS 2000 Silox Reactor :1970s
Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System :1985-89
Applied Materials - Precision Etch 8300 :1985-89 - The extension of the blockbuster that remapped the etch market.
Applied Materials - Nitrox AMN-710 :1960s - Improved yields by sealing oxide pin holes.
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Takeda Riken - Article 1982 :1982s
Takeda Riken – Excerpt from 1983 Annual Report :1983s
Advantest - 50th Anniversary :2004s
How We Do It . . .
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To help you understand how the microprocessor does its job
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Making chips is about driving machines better than a Formula 1 to their limit.
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Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as t ...
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