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Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...
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Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
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The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore for Electronics Magazine while he worked ...
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In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. Eventually, it would come to be known a ...
VLSI Research's History of the semiconductor equipment industry covers its development from its earliest years up a ...
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How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies of the ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
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Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
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Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integrated ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
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Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconductor equipment industry. It developed many ...
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A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
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This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
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John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Ri ...
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
William Holt: Striking the Right Balance Between Manufacturing Costs and Design ...
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Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the ...
Alex describes the second phase of Teradyne history and how they built the compa ...
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
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Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
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These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
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TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
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Lisa Su, VP of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, describes what math and science have done for her.
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