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The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introduction
Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money loser to the world's largest semiconduc ...
This photo shows a descendant of the first Concept One, almost a decade after its original development as a convent ...
This photo from the AI 400 series high energy implanters is one of the earliest decent photos from the time.
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered the entire world?
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
Not many commercial machines get more exotic than this. It even looks like something out of StarTrek.
Proximity aligners were a bridge tool between the original contact aligners and projection aligners. Yield from con ...
The transition from aluminum to copper wiring in semiconductor process technology is discussed in this interview wi ...
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The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore ...
How Power Performance and Cost relate to Moore's Law
Its Death Has Been Greatly Over-Exaggerated - ISSM 2003 Keynote Presentatio ...
Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be dis ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years A Look Back... 20 ...
Moore’s Law has morphed into many things over its life. But what is it †...
Historical perspective on Moore’s Law and its affects on everyday life an ...
The Chip Insider's Cook’s Tour: A deep immersion course in what IBM was d ...
In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. ...
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of Intel’s MPUs from the 4004 through th ...
Fairchild lead the industry from mesa-transistors to diffusion using Jean Hoerni's planar process, which would lay the f ...
The system that built the company.
Arguably the best stepper of its day, based on resale values.
This photo from the AI 400 series high energy implanters is one of the earliest decent photos from the time.
MX-17 LSI Test System by Adar Associates, Inc...
Proximity aligners were a bridge tool between the original contact aligners and projection aligners. Yield from contact ...
This logic tester represented another early attempt at capturing the automatic test equipment market.
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
Not the first such system, but near the first.
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
Go inside a 200mm fab at Intel's Fab 17 Hudson, Massachusetts factory as it exis ...
In 2004, ASML turned 20. This book was originally published to give employees an ...
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered ...
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
VLSI Research's History of the semiconductor equipment industry covers its devel ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years A Look Back... 2018 ma ...
The history and accomplishments of the Semiconductor Research Corporation
This video describes one of the most important factors in how AMD surged ahead t ...
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
Dan Maydan gives his tips about how to be successful running a technology compan ...
The history of semiconductor research at Intel is discussed in this 2004 convers ...
Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money lose ...
In this segment, Wilf Corrigan details the structural ingredients of the ASIC se ...
Alex d'Arbeloff's essential rules for running a semiconductor equipment company
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
Charlie Sporck reflects back on what he learned over the years, offering his adv ...
Jim Morgan talks about the early days of Applied Materials; how he brought focus ...
Robert Noyce has been called the father of Silicon Valley. A giant among giants, ...
Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, describes why America is losing its edge and w ...
Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System :1985-89
Takeda Riken - Article 1982 :1982s
Takeda Riken – Excerpt from 1983 Annual Report :1983s
Applied Materials - Nitrox AMN-710 :1960s - Improved yields by sealing oxide pin holes.
Advantest - Excerpt from 1986 Annual Report :1986s
Applied Materials - AMS 2000 Silox Reactor :1970s
The LS22 Series of large substrate spinners is designed for versatility, ease of use and safety in a variety of manual a ...
Applied Materials - Precision Etch 8300 :1985-89 - The extension of the blockbuster that remapped the etch market.
Advantest - 50th Anniversary :2004s
Watch circuit test system 193A
How We Do It . . .
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
Ever wonder how the nanochips you see in pictures wind up covered in plastic on ...
To help you understand how the microprocessor does its job
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as t ...
It Really Does Start With Sand . . . This series of images show how silicon wafe ...
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a ...
Making chips is about driving machines better than a Formula 1 to their limit.
Moore’s Law has morphed into many things over its life. But what is it … Rea ...
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