Tencor at 20 Years

Organization Name :KLA-Tencor

Summary : 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.

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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

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

International Standards ...

15 Jun 1990

A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek ... See more

When the death of Moore ...

15 Jan 1996

Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be disproved to the true believers that our industry is about to run into a wall that has never appeared. Back in the mid-nineties, Scientifi ... See more

Semiconductor Dicing Eq ...

Dicing equipment is used to cut apart individual die on a wafer. Typically, a dicing saw will cut along the wafer in an unused section between dice that is called the 'street'. · Such streets are typically thre ... See more

SEMATECH - An Oral Hist ...

16 Jun 1992

An interview with Dave Anderson ... 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

Ion Implantation - Deve ...

Ion implanters directly inject dopant atoms into semiconductor wafers. A gas containing atoms or molecules of the desired dopant 'species' is first ionized in an ion source. The ions are then extracted from the ... 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

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