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 Transistor and the ...

30 Jun 1955

The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Riordan, co-author of Crystal Fire, discusses how it came to be. ... See more

Tencor at 20 Years

Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconductor equipment industry. It developed many products that were essential to chip manufacturing. Some are still made today. ... 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

The Development of the ...

02 Jan 1983

Megatest's MegaOne was the system that sparked the tester-per-pin revolution (1983, courtesy of Teradyne). Find out more in this video that contains great clips of the state-of-the-art in technology development ... See more

Introduction to Wafer F ...

Wafer fabrication equipment consists of all those types of equipment used in making and processing raw wafers in forming the finished chips-whether they be discretes or integrated circuits. This segment also in ... 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

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

Etching & Cleaning - De ...

Dry processing methods are chemical processes that use a plasma to drive the reaction. Dry etching is the major segment of dry processing. Today, virtually all etching processes are dry processes. Typically, ... See more