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

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

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

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

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

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

Introduction to Assembl ...

Assembly equipment consists of those types of equipment used to separate the completed wafer into its individual dice and to assemble each die into its own package. The assembly equipment market comprises roug ... See more

Introduction to Questor ...

Questor systems consist of those types of equipment used in the design, verification, handling, inspection and test of integrated circuits. This equipment, although critical in assuring device design or design ... See more

Process Diagnostics - D ...

Process diagnostic equipment is critical to semiconductor manufacture. Though this equipment is not used to directly manufacture devices, it serves to verify consistent and in-control manufacturing processes. ... See more