Tylan - Baking System

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

KLA Conquers the Pellic ...

16 Nov 1981

Technology, Circa 1981 – It's often the overlooked news that turn out to be critical turning points. The pellicle was one such event. Being able to inspect them was even more critical and a large barrier to o ... See more

1947-The Transistor is ...

16 Dec 1947

SEMI's Great Moments in Semiconductor History: In 1947, Walter Brattain and John Bardeen, working under William Shockley at AT&T Bell Laboratories… ... See more

Varian - VLS 1000 Elect ...

30 Jun 1985

Remember when Varian was in the lithography business? You dont? Well, this was one of the top e-beam direct exposure systems in the early eighties. ... See more

IBM’s R&D Partnering ...

10 Jan 2008

The Chip Insider's Cook’s Tour: A deep immersion course in what IBM was doing in 2008 at both Albany Nanotech and at IBM’s Fishkill facility is reviewed by VLSIresearch's Chip Insider in this 2008 article. ... See more

KLA-Tencor - KLA ADD/10 ...

01 Jan 1980

The dawn of automated inspection. KLA's mask inspection tools took over to see what humans could not, launching what would become a great company by pushing barriers aside. ... See more

ASM Assembly Automation ...

30 Jun 1985

Here are two fine examples of third optical inspection systems when such systems were at their zenith. Used in assembly to accept, rework or reject wire bonds in un-lidded packages prior to sealing, the 3rd Op ... See more