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.
Takeda Riken, the antecedent to Advantest, built it's brand on Semiconductor ATE reliability levels not seen previo ...
This has become one of the most controversial semiconductor topics of the year. Is it a bubble? Is there double-ord ...
Ali Salehpour: Leadership with Applied Global Services and Display Business has driven Applied Materials
Few inventions have proven to be as the integrated circuit....
Bill Tobey interview on his conceptualizing the wafer stepper in the late 1970s
Andy Bryant: For steering Intel through a second leadership crisis in his tenure as Chairman
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Riordan, co-author of Crystal Fire, d ...
Wally Rhines: Wally is an industry legend, having climbed the ladder to run TI’s semiconductor and data systems g ...
Inside Intel’s Microprocessor’s covers a pictorial and spec history from their first, the 4004, throu ...
This virtual museum of semiconductor history is built on the unique combination of VLSIresearch’s
library, the deep knowledge of its analysts from around the globe with 100’s of years of experience,
VLSI’s centricity in Silicon Valley’s lifestyle and culture of innovation, and its unparalleled network
that stretched deep into the IC manufacturing industry. It would start with some of the earliest
events, such as the invention of The Field Effect Transistor (FET) in 1925 by Julius E. Lilienfeld in 1925 — yes that’s right 1925! While William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain often credited with the invention of the transistor, they actually only discovered it as it had been invented 22 years earlier.
Since 2004, The Chip History Center has been able to provide easy-to-access and free information to researchers, historians, and educators with its Time Lines, Exhibits, and collections centered around the products and companies who have been at the center of this transformation.
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the su ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies o ...
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
Who really invented the Integrated Circuit? In this video, Dan Hutcheson has a c ...
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
Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integr ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconducto ...
The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predict ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years of award winning semicon ...
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
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
Alex describes the second phase of Teradyne history and how they built the compa ...
Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
William Holt: Striking the Right Balance Between Manufacturing Costs and Design ...
Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in ...
Rick Wallace: CEO, KLA-Tencor: KLA-Tencor and Accelerating the 45nm Yield Ramp
How the SIA got started is an video interview with the legendary Wilf Corrigan w ...
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the ...
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
Advantest turned 50 on July 1, 2004. It was a milestone for one of Japan's great ...
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered ...
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi ...
KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
Lisa Su, VP of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, describes what math and science have done for her.
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as televisions, cars, radios, home appliance ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a silicon wafer and down into a semicondu ...
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