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The system that built the company.
Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of Intel’s MPUs from the 4004 throug ...
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
1958: The First IC by Jack Kilby, Texas Instruments
Semiconductor History being made in the 1980’s The founding of TSMC on February 21, 1987 marks an earthquake t ...
Today the company is known as Verigy and they are considered a powerhouse of semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment ...
How he turned a technology, critial to the future of Moore's Law and the semiconductor industry, into a success.
This photo shows a descendant of the first Concept One, almost a decade after its original development as a convent ...
Applied Materials - Precision 5000 CVD, The blockbuster that made cluster tool a household name (at least in fab ho ...
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Donate NowSemiconductor History being made in the 1980’s The founding of TSMC on ...
The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore ...
In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. ...
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD :1985-89 - The first bullet-proof multi ...
It has been 40 years since Gordon Moore first posted what would one day be ...
Andy Grove talks at IMEC 2004 - the Intel Manufacturing Excellence Conferen ...
Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be dis ...
Dan Maydan talks about the early days of turning Applied Materials into a t ...
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey acr ...
This photo from the AI 400 series high energy implanters is one of the earliest decent photos from the time.
Early resist processing systems were notoriously difficult to keep running. They either gummed up or started breaking wa ...
This video is a manufacturing IT case study that shows Intel's first true 300mm ...
MX-17 LSI Test System by Adar Associates, Inc...
One of the most celebrated companies in the equipment industry, Lam was once a s ...
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of ...
The system that built the company.
Fairchild lead the industry from mesa-transistors to diffusion using Jean Hoerni ...
This logic tester represented another early attempt at capturing the automatic t ...
Possibly the only successful high pressure system.
In 2004, ASML turned 20. This book was originally published to give employees an insight into the history of ASML and a ...
VLSI Research's History of the Equipment Industry
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three Semicon trade shows covered the entire world?
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
The history and accomplishments of the Semiconductor Research Corporation
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
Key events drawn from archived documents in VLSI's library. These documents have ...
This video was shot inside a 200mm fab at Intel's Hudson, Massachusetts factory.
This video describes one of the most important factors in how AMD surged ahead t ...
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
Jim Morgan talks about the early days of Applied Materials; how he brought focus ...
A conversation with Sunlin Chou, discussing the history of research at Intel. S ...
Robert Noyce has been called the father of Silicon Valley. A giant among giants, ...
Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money lose ...
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
In this segment, Wilf Corrigan details the structural ingredients of the ASIC se ...
Charlie Sporck reflects back on what he learned over the years, offering his adv ...
Dan Maydan gives his tips about how to be successful running a technology compan ...
Alex d'Arbeloff's essential rules for running a semiconductor equipment company
Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, describes why America is losing its edge and w ...
Advantest - 50th Anniversary :2004s
Advantest - Excerpt from 1986 Annual Report :1986s
Applied Materials - AMS 2000 Silox Reactor :1970s
Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System :1985-89
The LS22 Series of large substrate spinners is designed for versatility, ease of use and safety in a variety of manual a ...
Watch circuit test system 193A
Applied Materials - Precision Etch 8300 :1985-89 - The extension of the blockbuster that remapped the etch market.
Takeda Riken - Article 1982 :1982s
Applied Materials - Nitrox AMN-710 :1960s - Improved yields by sealing oxide pin holes.
Takeda Riken – Excerpt from 1983 Annual Report :1983s
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
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 ...
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as t ...
To help you understand how the microprocessor does its job
Ever wonder how the nanochips you see in pictures wind up covered in plastic on ...
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a ...
How We Do It . . .
Making chips is about driving machines better than a Formula 1 to their limit.
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