Excerpt from 1984 Annual Report

Organization Name :Lam Research

Summary : Lam Research Corporation was founded in 1980 when advance in micro miniaturization technology produce dramatic changes in the way that integrated circuits were made.

Auto Etch 590 Oxide Etc ...

The AutoEtch 590 reduces ion bombardment and attendant device damage by placing the wafer on the grounded electrode. ... See more

Excerpt from 1999 Annua ...

Long regarded as technology leader in etch, Lam took additional aggressive steps in fiscal 1999 to position the Company for success and to gain market share ... See more

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

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In 1968, standard clean room practices were lax. Facilities were kept reasonably clean, but employees wore their own clothes and the environment was not sterile. An early technician remembered “a couple of pe ... See more

1st diffusion transisto ...

30 Jun 1955

Fairchild lead the industry from mesa-transistors to diffusion using Jean Hoerni's planar process, which would lay the foundation for the Integrated Circuit, Moore's Law, and would be the base process for almos ... See more

Lessons Learned at Fair ...

18 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

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