Evolution of the IT Industry

Ultratech’s History

29 Sep 2017

Founded in 1979 as Ultratech Stepper, it was the oldest stepper company in the world until its sale to Veeco in 2017. Used in the semiconductor lithography process, its stepper was unique in its use of a 1X len ... See more

Valuing Moore’s Law i ...

13 Feb 2015

How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies of the United States and the World. ... See more

Moore's Law: 40 Years a ...

01 Jan 2005

In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. Eventually, it would come to be known as Moore's Law. This is an overview, published Forty years later, celebrating how it was still g ... See more

Semiconductor wafer fab ...

15 Jun 2000

Go inside a 200mm fab at Intel's Fab 17 Hudson, Massachusetts factory as it existed around 2000. ... See more

Reminiscences from SEMI ...

15 Jul 1971

The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered the entire world? ... See more

VLSI - An Economist's V ...

15 Jan 1980

A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980 ... See more

AMD - Automated Precisi ...

This video describes one of the most important factors in how AMD surged ahead to become a world leader in semiconductor manufacturing. In its description of APM, you get an aerial view and tour inside AMD's 20 ... See more

SEMATECH - An Oral Hist ...

16 Jun 1992

An interview with Dave Anderson ... See more

Silicon and the Microel ...

The emergence of crystalline silicon and silicon-based material such as silicon-germanium as the premier material and the personnel driving the integrated circuit (IC) microelectronics revolution will be review ... See more

Evaluation of Automated ...

Jerry Hutcheson, VLSI Research's founder, was very active in the test side of the semiconductor business in the early 70's. The following document is his internal notes about tester evaluation, selection criter ... See more