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The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of Intel’s MPUs from the 4004 throug ...
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Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
The system that built the company.
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
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Today the company is known as Verigy and they are considered a powerhouse of semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late seventies to early eighties.
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In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. ...
How Power Performance and Cost relate to Moore's Law
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Its Death Has Been Greatly Over-Exaggerated - ISSM 2003 Keynote Presentatio ...
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MX-17 LSI Test System by Adar Associates, Inc...
This logic tester represented another early attempt at capturing the automatic test equipment market.
Proximity aligners were a bridge tool between the original contact aligners and projection aligners. Yield from contact ...
The system that built the company.
Not the first such system, but near the first.
Early resist processing systems were notoriously difficult to keep running. They either gummed up or started breaking wa ...
Possibly the only successful high pressure system.
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
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A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
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A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
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The history and accomplishments of the Semiconductor Research Corporation
VLSI Research's History of the semiconductor equipment industry covers its devel ...
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Alex d'Arbeloff's essential rules for running a semiconductor equipment company
Dan Maydan gives his tips about how to be successful running a technology compan ...
Jim Morgan talks about the early days of Applied Materials; how he brought focus ...
Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, describes why America is losing its edge and w ...
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Charlie Sporck reflects back on what he learned over the years, offering his adv ...
A conversation with Sunlin Chou, discussing the history of research at Intel. S ...
Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money lose ...
Robert Noyce has been called the father of Silicon Valley. A giant among giants, ...
The LS22 Series of large substrate spinners is designed for versatility, ease of use and safety in a variety of manual a ...
Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System :1985-89
Applied Materials - AMS 2000 Silox Reactor :1970s
Takeda Riken – Excerpt from 1983 Annual Report :1983s
Takeda Riken - Article 1982 :1982s
Applied Materials - Precision Etch 8300 :1985-89 - The extension of the blockbuster that remapped the etch market.
Advantest - 50th Anniversary :2004s
Advantest - Excerpt from 1986 Annual Report :1986s
Watch circuit test system 193A
Applied Materials - Nitrox AMN-710 :1960s - Improved yields by sealing oxide pin holes.
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as televisions, cars, radios, home appliance ...
To help you understand how the microprocessor does its job
Making chips is about driving machines better than a Formula 1 to their limit.
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How We Do It . . .
Moore’s Law has morphed into many things over its life. But what is it … Rea ...
It Really Does Start With Sand . . . This series of images show how silicon wafe ...
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