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Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money loser to the world's largest semiconduc ...
200 years of deposition technology
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A special presentation of The Chip History Center on History Timeline of Automatic Test Equipment
IC Timeline a special presentation of The Chip History Center.
Craig describes the origins of manufacturing lore such as Copy Exactly, Intel U, and refsnart in this interview
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
Historical perspective on Moore’s Law and its affects on everyday life and economic growth for the world as a who ...
8008- 8 bit parallel central proccessing unit.
The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore for Electronics Magazine while he worked ...
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