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This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late seventies to early eighties.
One of our industry legends, Nick DeWolf, has passed on. DeWolf co-founded Teradyne with Alex dArbeloff, who toget ...
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ASET - Model 1562 g-Line Stepper :1985-89 - Once a leader, they died after Japan’s onslaught.
This photo shows a descendant of the first Concept One, almost a decade after its original development as a convent ...
Mark Bohr discusses process technology development on Intel's 65nm Process in this 2003 interview.
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