Semiconductors are to the information age what engines are to the industrial age. Chips are the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, and the fractional horsepower engine rolled up into one. The Chip History Center is dedicated to preserving that history for future generations.
Few inventions have proven to be as the integrated circuit....
Randhir Thakur re-defined product development at Applied Materials
It Really Does Start With Sand . . . This series of images show how silicon wafers are made from sand, purifying th ...
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step ...
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi-process system. It would become th ...
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
Moore’s Law has morphed into many things over its life. But what is it … Really! Here it is explained ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Remember air track? It was all the rage in the days when technocool won out over particle counts. Ask anyone who e ...
This virtual museum of semiconductor history is built on the unique combination of VLSIresearch’s
library, the deep knowledge of its analysts from around the globe with 100’s of years of experience,
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that stretched deep into the IC manufacturing industry. It would start with some of the earliest
events, such as the invention of The Field Effect Transistor (FET) in 1925 by Julius E. Lilienfeld in 1925 — yes that’s right 1925! While William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain often credited with the invention of the transistor, they actually only discovered it as it had been invented 22 years earlier.
Since 2004, The Chip History Center has been able to provide easy-to-access and free information to researchers, historians, and educators with its Time Lines, Exhibits, and collections centered around the products and companies who have been at the center of this transformation.
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies o ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the su ...
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited ...
Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integr ...
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the success ...
Who really invented the Integrated Circuit? In this video, Dan Hutcheson has a c ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconducto ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Ri ...
VLSI Research's History of the semiconductor equipment industry covers its devel ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years of award winning semicon ...
The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predict ...
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the ...
Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in ...
William Holt: Striking the Right Balance Between Manufacturing Costs and Design ...
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
How the SIA got started is an video interview with the legendary Wilf Corrigan w ...
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
Rick Wallace: CEO, KLA-Tencor: KLA-Tencor and Accelerating the 45nm Yield Ramp
Alex describes the second phase of Teradyne history and how they built the compa ...
Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
Advantest turned 50 on July 1, 2004. It was a milestone for one of Japan's great ...
Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered ...
KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi ...
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a silicon wafer and down into a semicondu ...
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as televisions, cars, radios, home appliance ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
Lisa Su, VP of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, describes what math and science have done for her.
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