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.
The system that built the company.
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 ...
1958: The First IC by Jack Kilby, Texas Instruments
How he turned a technology, critial to the future of Moore's Law and the semiconductor industry, into a success.
Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...
Semiconductor History being made in the 1980’s The founding of TSMC on February 21, 1987 marks an earthquake t ...
Evolution of the IT Industry from 1890 to 1994
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of Intel’s MPUs from the 4004 throug ...
Today the company is known as Verigy and they are considered a powerhouse of semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment ...
Help make The Chip History Center a vibrant website to tell the story and history of semiconductors. Semiconductors have enabled today’s compute-based society. Without them there would be no smart in smart phones, no media in social media, no reality in virtual reality, and no intelligence in artificial intelligence. Help us tell the semiconductor story. Generous contributions from organizations like yours make this possible. Your support enables our work in cataloging and presenting these achievements to be free of charge to students, employees, investors, and the general public.
Donate NowApplied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD :1985-89 - The first bullet-proof multi ...
The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore ...
Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be dis ...
Semiconductor History being made in the 1980’s The founding of TSMC on ...
Dan Maydan talks about the early days of turning Applied Materials into a t ...
In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. ...
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 ...
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey acr ...
One of the most celebrated companies in the equipment industry, Lam was once a scrappy start-up taking on far larger com ...
MX-17 LSI Test System by Adar Associates, Inc...
This photo from the AI 400 series high energy implanters is one of the earliest decent photos from the time.
Fairchild lead the industry from mesa-transistors to diffusion using Jean Hoerni's planar process, which would lay the f ...
Not the first such system, but near the first.
Possibly the only successful high pressure system.
Arguably the best stepper of its day, based on resale values.
This video is a manufacturing IT case study that shows Intel's first true 300mm ...
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of ...
Early resist processing systems were notoriously difficult to keep running. They ...
This video was shot inside a 200mm fab at Intel's Hudson, Massachusetts factory.
The history and accomplishments of the Semiconductor Research Corporation
In 2004, ASML turned 20. This book was originally published to give employees an ...
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
This video describes one of the most important factors in how AMD surged ahead t ...
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three Semicon trade shows covered ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
VLSI Research's History of the Equipment Industry
Key events drawn from archived documents in VLSI's library. These documents have ...
Alex d'Arbeloff's essential rules for running a semiconductor equipment company
Jim Morgan talks about the early days of Applied Materials; how he brought focus ...
In this segment, Wilf Corrigan details the structural ingredients of the ASIC se ...
Dan Maydan gives his tips about how to be successful running a technology compan ...
Robert Noyce has been called the father of Silicon Valley. A giant among giants, ...
Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, describes why America is losing its edge and w ...
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money lose ...
A conversation with Sunlin Chou, discussing the history of research at Intel. S ...
Charlie Sporck reflects back on what he learned over the years, offering his adv ...
Applied Materials - Precision Etch 8300 :1985-89 - The extension of the blockbuster that remapped the etch market.
Watch circuit test system 193A
The LS22 Series of large substrate spinners is designed for versatility, ease of use and safety in a variety of manual a ...
Applied Materials - AMS 2000 Silox Reactor :1970s
Advantest - Excerpt from 1986 Annual Report :1986s
Takeda Riken - Article 1982 :1982s
Applied Materials - Nitrox AMN-710 :1960s - Improved yields by sealing oxide pin holes.
Advantest - 50th Anniversary :2004s
Takeda Riken – Excerpt from 1983 Annual Report :1983s
Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System :1985-89
Moore’s Law has morphed into many things over its life. But what is it … Rea ...
To help you understand how the microprocessor does its job
Making chips is about driving machines better than a Formula 1 to their limit.
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as t ...
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's ...
How We Do It . . .
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a ...
It Really Does Start With Sand . . . This series of images show how silicon wafe ...
Ever wonder how the nanochips you see in pictures wind up covered in plastic on ...
Copyright © 2017 VLSI Research Inc. All rights reserved.
