Semiconductors are to the information age what engines are to the industrial age. Chips are the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, and the fractional horsepower engine rolled up into one. The Chip History Center is dedicated to preserving that history for future generations.
Moore’s Law has morphed into many things over its life. But what is it … Really! Here it is explained ...
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step ...
Key events drawn from archived documents in VLSI's library. These documents have been carefully selected for their ...
Few inventions have proven to be as the integrated circuit....
Few companies have accelerated the industry as much as KLA has.
VLSI Research's History of the semiconductor equipment industry covers its development from its earliest years up a ...
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi-process system. It would become th ...
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that stretched deep into the IC manufacturing industry. It would start with some of the earliest
events, such as the invention of The Field Effect Transistor (FET) in 1925 by Julius E. Lilienfeld in 1925 — yes that’s right 1925! While William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain often credited with the invention of the transistor, they actually only discovered it as it had been invented 22 years earlier.
Since 2004, The Chip History Center has been able to provide easy-to-access and free information to researchers, historians, and educators with its Time Lines, Exhibits, and collections centered around the products and companies who have been at the center of this transformation.
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited ...
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the su ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies o ...
Who really invented the Integrated Circuit? In this video, Dan Hutcheson has a c ...
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the success ...
Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integr ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
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 ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years of award winning semicon ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Ri ...
John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
VLSI Research's History of the semiconductor equipment industry covers its devel ...
William Holt: Striking the Right Balance Between Manufacturing Costs and Design ...
Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in ...
How the SIA got started is an video interview with the legendary Wilf Corrigan w ...
Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the ...
Alex describes the second phase of Teradyne history and how they built the compa ...
Rick Wallace: CEO, KLA-Tencor: KLA-Tencor and Accelerating the 45nm Yield Ramp
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi ...
Advantest turned 50 on July 1, 2004. It was a milestone for one of Japan's great ...
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered ...
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
Lisa Su, VP of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, describes what math and science have done for her.
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as televisions, cars, radios, home appliance ...
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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