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How Teradyne got started and what it was like to be a start-up in the sixties.
Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...
Applied Materials - P5000, Etcher :1985-89 - Followed the 8300, but was eclipsed.
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
Mark Bohr discusses process technology development on Intel's 65nm Process in this 2003 interview.
Today the company is known as Verigy and they are considered a powerhouse of semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment ...
Andrew S. Grove addresses the evolution of semiconductor manufacturing from the earliest days at Fairchild to Intel ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years A Look Back... 2018 marks the 30th year VLSIresearch has ...
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
This photo shows a descendant of the first Concept One, almost a decade after its original development as a convent ...
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Donate NowHistorical perspective on Moore’s Law and its affects on everyday life an ...
Its Death Has Been Greatly Over-Exaggerated - ISSM 2003 Keynote Presentatio ...
Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be dis ...
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The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore ...
The Chip Insider's Cook’s Tour: A deep immersion course in what IBM was d ...
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How Power Performance and Cost relate to Moore's Law
In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. ...
Moore’s Law has morphed into many things over its life. But what is it †...
Early resist processing systems were notoriously difficult to keep running. They either gummed up or started breaking wa ...
Proximity aligners were a bridge tool between the original contact aligners and projection aligners. Yield from contact ...
Fairchild lead the industry from mesa-transistors to diffusion using Jean Hoerni's planar process, which would lay the f ...
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of Intel’s MPUs from the 4004 through th ...
This video is a manufacturing IT case study that shows Intel's first true 300mm ...
This logic tester represented another early attempt at capturing the automatic t ...
Not the first such system, but near the first.
MX-17 LSI Test System by Adar Associates, Inc...
One of the most celebrated companies in the equipment industry, Lam was once a s ...
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This video describes one of the most important factors in how AMD surged ahead to become a world leader in semiconductor ...
Key events drawn from archived documents in VLSI's library. These documents have ...
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The industry was in its childhood? When two or three Semicon trade shows covered ...
The history and accomplishments of the Semiconductor Research Corporation
Go inside a 200mm fab at Intel's Fab 17 Hudson, Massachusetts factory as it exis ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
In 2004, ASML turned 20. This book was originally published to give employees an ...
Alex d'Arbeloff's essential rules for running a semiconductor equipment company
Jim Morgan talks about the early days of Applied Materials; how he brought focus ...
Dan Maydan gives his tips about how to be successful running a technology compan ...
A conversation with Sunlin Chou, discussing the history of research at Intel. S ...
Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, describes why America is losing its edge and w ...
Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money lose ...
Robert Noyce has been called the father of Silicon Valley. A giant among giants, ...
Charlie Sporck reflects back on what he learned over the years, offering his adv ...
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
In this segment, Wilf Corrigan details the structural ingredients of the ASIC se ...
Applied Materials - AMS 2000 Silox Reactor :1970s
Applied Materials - Precision Etch 8300 :1985-89 - The extension of the blockbuster that remapped the etch market.
The LS22 Series of large substrate spinners is designed for versatility, ease of use and safety in a variety of manual a ...
Watch circuit test system 193A
Advantest - Excerpt from 1986 Annual Report :1986s
Takeda Riken – Excerpt from 1983 Annual Report :1983s
Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System :1985-89
Advantest - 50th Anniversary :2004s
Applied Materials - Nitrox AMN-710 :1960s - Improved yields by sealing oxide pin holes.
Takeda Riken - Article 1982 :1982s
Moore’s Law has morphed into many things over its life. But what is it … Rea ...
To help you understand how the microprocessor does its job
How We Do It . . .
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Making chips is about driving machines better than a Formula 1 to their limit.
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It Really Does Start With Sand . . . This series of images show how silicon wafe ...
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