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.
Today the company is known as Verigy and they are considered a powerhouse of semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment ...
Sunlin Chou, who passed December 5th, 2018, and his contributions to the semiconductor industry. Sunlin’s role wa ...
The Intel secret weapon that turned the industry upside-down and revolutionized lithography.
One of the first commercial high current ion implanters.
This photo shows a descendant of the first Concept One, almost a decade after its original development as a convent ...
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of Intel’s MPUs from the 4004 throug ...
Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD :1985-89 - The first bullet-proof multichamber, multiprocess system.
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
Help make The Chip History Center a vibrant website to tell the story and history of semiconductors. Semiconductors have enabled today’s compute-based society. Without them there would be no smart in smart phones, no media in social media, no reality in virtual reality, and no intelligence in artificial intelligence. Help us tell the semiconductor story. Generous contributions from organizations like yours make this possible. Your support enables our work in cataloging and presenting these achievements to be free of charge to students, employees, investors, and the general public.
Donate NowIBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the su ...
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies of the ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integrated ...
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the success ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Who really invented the Integrated Circuit? In this video, Dan Hutcheson has a c ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconducto ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years of award winning semicon ...
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 ...
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predict ...
John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
VLSI Research's History of the semiconductor equipment industry covers its devel ...
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the ...
Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
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
Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in ...
How the SIA got started is an video interview with the legendary Wilf Corrigan w ...
Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
William Holt: Striking the Right Balance Between Manufacturing Costs and Design ...
Alex describes the second phase of Teradyne history and how they built the compa ...
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
Advantest - 50th Anniversary :2004s
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD :1985-89 - The first bullet-proof multichamb ...
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered ...
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
Lisa Su, VP of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, describes what math and science have done for her.
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
To help you understand how the microprocessor does its job
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as televisions, cars, radios, home appliance ...
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a silicon wafer and down into a semicondu ...
Copyright © 2019 VLSI Research Inc. All rights reserved.
