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IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Richard Blickman: Transformed BE Semiconductor (BESI) into a highly operationally-flexible equipment supplier, that ...
Intel introduces its first product: The 3101 SRAM with this press release. It was part of Moore’s “Goldilocks s ...
Sunlin Chou, who passed December 5th, 2018, and his contributions to the semiconductor industry. Sunlin’s role wa ...
Tom Caulfield: For GLOBALFOUNDRIES' strategic pivot to a differentiated strategy
Kazuo Ushida, Masashi Oka, & Toshikazu Umatate: For executing Nikon's turnaround to deal with the shifting market r ...
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
SEMI's poster that shows the history of semiconductor start-ups in Silicon Valley.
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