Summary : 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 26.4% share of the semiconductor equipment market. The market share for the top five equipment suppliers was virtually unchanged over the 1988 figure, 26.3%. Japan-based firms hold four of the top five position in 1989, as compared to only three in 1988. These are: Tokyo Electron Ltd., Nik ... See More
AMD's and Intel's can be traced back to Fairchild and Shockley Transistor with t ...
AMD's and Intel's can be traced back to Fairchild and Shockley Transistor with this genealogy of semiconductor start-ups in Silicon Valley. The poster was created by SEMI poster. It shows the history of semicon ... See more
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconducto ...
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
In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. Even ...
In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. Eventually, it would come to be known as Moore's Law. This is an overview, published Forty years later, celebrating how it was still g ... See more
Lithography has long been regarded as the queen of wafer fabrication in the driv ...
Lithography has long been regarded as the queen of wafer fabrication in the drive towards submicron geometries. But, in recent years problems with depth-of-focus and materials have limited lithography's ability ... See more
Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be disprove ...
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
Process diagnostic equipment is critical to semiconductor manufacture. Though th ...
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
Dry processing methods are chemical processes that use a plasma to drive the re ...
Dry processing methods are chemical processes that use a plasma to drive the reaction. Dry etching is the major segment of dry processing. Today, virtually all etching processes are dry processes. Typically, ... See more
Process diagnostic equipment is critical to semiconductor manufacture. Though th ...
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
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