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1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
Today the company is known as Verigy and they are considered a powerhouse of semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment ...
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
Just as the first lights of a new millennium were dawning in 1999, ASML announced its newest lithography product, T ...
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
The dawn of automated inspection. KLA's mask inspection tools took over to see what humans could not, launching wha ...
The tool that sparked the yield management revolution.
Few inventions have proven to be as the integrated circuit....
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When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
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These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
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