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

Moore’s Law GDP Value ...

13 Feb 2015

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

The invention of the IC ...

23 Jan 1958

The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predictable. Corporate culture played no small part in influencing how a small west coast start-up named Fairchild and a company that mad ... See more

History of Ion Implanta ...

15 Jun 1980

History of Ion Implantation Systems and their importance in the development of semiconductor manufacturing. Includes the roles William Shockley and Liechtenstein based Balzers played in the early development of ... See more

A History Timeline of A ...

15 Jun 2006

A special presentation of The Chip History Center on History Timeline of Automatic Test Equipment ... See more

The Near Impossibility ...

30 Jun 1975

This superb article, about the birth of the Perkin Elmer Projection Scanning Aligner, was first published in the Fall 1999 issue of American Heritage of Information & Technology. ... See more

Transistors to Integrat ...

16 Dec 1947

Transistors to Integrated Circuits: How the early semiconductor industry got from the Lab to the Fab. ... See more

Semiconductor Bonding & ...

Bonding and inspection has historically been overlooked by upper management in semiconductor companies. Their attention has been drawn by the enormous capital requirements of wafer fabrication. However, this ... 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

Other Equipment - Devel ...

Section 4.8 covers that equipment which does not fit in the other wafer fabrication equipment categories. VLSI Research now includes two new segments under the Other Equipment classification. These segments are ... See more