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One of the first commercial high current ion implanters.
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Applied Materials - P5000, Etcher :1985-89 - Followed the 8300, but was eclipsed.
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Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD :1985-89 - The first bullet-proof multichamber, multiprocess system.
Aart de Geus: Founding and building the modern EDA company, re-shaping EDA industry into a customer-focused and tru ...
Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in semiconductor ATE.
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
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Its Death Has Been Greatly Over-Exaggerated - ISSM 2003 Keynote Presentation
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Watch circuit test system 193A
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How We Do It . . .
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