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This photo shows a descendant of the first Concept One, almost a decade after its original development as a convent ...
One of the first commercial high current ion implanters.
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD :1985-89 - The first bullet-proof multichamber, multiprocess system.
Megatest's MegaOne was the system that sparked the tester-per-pin revolution (1983, courtesy of Teradyne). Find out ...
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
The Intel secret weapon that turned the industry upside-down and revolutionized lithography.
Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...
Sunlin Chou, who passed December 5th, 2018, and his contributions to the semiconductor industry. Sunlin’s role wa ...
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
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When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
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Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
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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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