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

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

Customer Satisfaction L ...

15 Jun 2018

VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years of award winning semiconductor equipment companies. A Look Back... 2018 marked the 30th year VLSIresearch has released its annual Customer Satisfaction ... See more

Semiconductor Depositio ...

Lithography has long been regarded as the queen of wafer fabrication in the drive towards submicron geometries. But, in recent years problems with depth-of-focus and materials have limited lithography's ability ... See more

A Brief History of Elec ...

200 years of deposition technology ... See more

Paradigms of Maskless L ...

The replacement of optical lithography with e-beam direct write for semiconductor manufacturing has been predicted since Gordon Moore penned his 1965 paper, writing "It is worth noting that this density of comp ... See more

Semiconductor Diffusion ...

There are three market segments of the diffusion/oxidation equipment industry. They are diffusion, high pressure oxidation and rapid thermal processing, as depicted in Figure 4.4.0-1. ... See more

Environmental Health an ...

15 Sep 1994

The semiconductor industry has always worked hard to have and to maintain extremely high health and safety levels. ... See more

Packaging Equipment - D ...

The early nineties, brought a renaissance to packaging due to a demand for more I/0, smaller sizes, higher power, faster speed and control of thermal properties. These demands drove the need for more sophistic ... See more