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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 ...
Sunlin Chou took the semiconductor R&D model and turned it into a manufacturing center that systematically turns id ...
One of the first commercial high current ion implanters.
1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild
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Egon Putzi beat all the odds to make SEZ a consistently profitable wet processing company.
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