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.
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
Craig describes the origins of manufacturing lore such as Copy Exactly, Intel U, and refsnart in this interview
Art Zafiropoulo was honored for championing technology through innovative marketing approaches: first with plasma e ...
One of the greatest problems in marketing is effectively communicating the differences between products so that the ...
Of the three business integration models: Horizontal, Vertical, and Matrix, matrix is the most powerful but also th ...
In 1968, standard clean room practices were lax. Facilities were kept reasonably clean, but employees wore their ow ...
How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies of the United States and the World.
You will never get ink from a magazine to burn mind share with your company’s name...
How some Japanese companies thrived in spite of the many challenges of the lost decades.
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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.
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the su ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited ...
How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies o ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the success ...
Who really invented the Integrated Circuit? In this video, Dan Hutcheson has a c ...
Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integr ...
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years of award winning semicon ...
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 ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Ri ...
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the ...
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 ...
Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
Rick Wallace: CEO, KLA-Tencor: KLA-Tencor and Accelerating the 45nm Yield Ramp
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
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 ...
KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered ...
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi ...
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 ...
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a silicon wafer and down into a semicondu ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as televisions, cars, radios, home appliance ...
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
Lisa Su, VP of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, describes what math and science have done for her.
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