Accutest - 103A Watch Circuit Tester

ASML - PAS 2000 Wafer S ...

30 Jun 1985

Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An entourage of government bodies, both foreign and domestic, as well as interested but alien busines ... See more

Takeda Riken – Growt ...

Takeda Riken, the antecedent to Advantest, was hardly known outside Japan in 1980 and by 1985 it was driving the VLSI or Very Large Scale Integration ATE market as the largest company at the time fell back. Gro ... See more

The Turn Around at Fair ...

05 Jan 2006

Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money loser to the world's largest semiconductor equipment company during the seventies and how mismanagement led to its destruction after h ... See more

Kulicke & Soffa - Model ...

Kulicke & Soffa Model 1471 High Productivity Wedge Bonder ... See more

Bringing Focus to AMAT

07 Mar 2006

Jim Morgan talks about the early days of Applied Materials; how he brought focus by paring down the company's business to the core epitaxy product line; his concept of success; and the three phases of competiti ... See more

The Bob Graham Award

29 Nov 2004

What About Bob - Robert Graham's video biography of his career with comments about him, sometimes roasting him, from industry luminaries such as Gordon Moore, Marshall Cox, Mel Phelps, and G. Dan Hutcheson. ... See more

GCA XLS - Advanced Micr ...

The failure that was supposed to save the U.S. lithography infrastructure. It was simply a case of too little, too late. ... See more

Intel tackles Mobile wi ...

12 Mar 2003

The launch of Intel’s Centrino in 2003 marks move that took laptop PCs into the mobile world. It is often claimed that Intel was a failure in mobile. But consider that Intel’s profits of $11B in Otellini” ... See more

Semiconductor Systems - ...

Semiconductor Systems' new System 200 is state-of-the-art equipment for submicron lithography that is designed for the greatest flexibility now, and in the future. ... See more

AMI - Series 2000, 2nd ...