Intel Timeline from 1968 - 1984: A Revolution in Progress

Summary : A special presentation of The Chip History Center on Intel Timeline from 1968-1984

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Moore's Law: Original D ...

19 Apr 1965

The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore for Electronics Magazine while he worked at Fairchild Semiconductor. This seminal paper would prove to be one of the most important pap ... See more

Tencor at 20 Years

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. ... See more

The invention of the IC ...

23 Jan 1958

The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predictable. Corporate culture played no small part in influencing how a small west coast start-up named Fairchild and a company that mad ... 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

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

Equipment Suppliers - 1 ...

This section examines the vendors who supply semiconductor manufacturing equipment. There are approximately 534 of them. The top five are shown below in Figure 2.0.0-1. In 1989, these five companies held a 26 ... 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

Packaging Equipment - D ...

The early nineties, brought a renaissance to packaging due to a demand for more I/0, smaller sizes, higher power, faster speed and control of thermal properties. These demands drove the need for more sophistic ... 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

Material Handling Syste ...

Material handling equipment serves as a physical, mechanical and electronic interface between test equipment and the device under test (DUT). It consists of three major subsegments commonly referred to as wafer ... See more