Semiconductors are to the information age what engines are to the industrial age. Chips are the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, and the fractional horsepower engine rolled up into one. The Chip History Center is dedicated to preserving that history for future generations.
Papken Der Torossian saved the step-and-scan lithography technology for America
Few inventions have proven to be as the integrated circuit....
The history of semiconductor research at Intel is discussed in this 2004 conversation with Sunlin Chou.
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi-process system. It would become th ...
Of the three business integration models: Horizontal, Vertical, and Matrix, matrix is the most powerful but also th ...
The World's First Microprocessor and more! A series that shows the evolution of Intel’s MPUs from the 4004 throug ...
The Future of Integrated Electronics draft, written by Dr. Gordon E. Moore for Electronics Magazine while he worked ...
AMD's and Intel's can be traced back to Fairchild and Shockley Transistor with this genealogy of semiconductor star ...
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that stretched deep into the IC manufacturing industry. It would start with some of the earliest
events, such as the invention of The Field Effect Transistor (FET) in 1925 by Julius E. Lilienfeld in 1925 — yes that’s right 1925! While William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain often credited with the invention of the transistor, they actually only discovered it as it had been invented 22 years earlier.
Since 2004, The Chip History Center has been able to provide easy-to-access and free information to researchers, historians, and educators with its Time Lines, Exhibits, and collections centered around the products and companies who have been at the center of this transformation.
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the su ...
How the Moore’s Law raises income in relationship to the economies of the ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integrated ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the success ...
Who really invented the Integrated Circuit? In this video, Dan Hutcheson has a c ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconducto ...
John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Ri ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years of award winning semicon ...
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predict ...
Rick Wallace: CEO, KLA-Tencor: KLA-Tencor and Accelerating the 45nm Yield Ramp
Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in ...
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the ...
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
William Holt: Striking the Right Balance Between Manufacturing Costs and Design ...
How the SIA got started is an video interview with the legendary Wilf Corrigan w ...
Alex describes the second phase of Teradyne history and how they built the compa ...
Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
Advantest turned 50 on July 1, 2004. It was a milestone for one of Japan's greatest tech companies. This documents that ...
Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi ...
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered ...
TTID: This Time it’s Different or Time-to-Imminent-Disaster?
This is a children's story about Little Lil the ladybug and her journey across a silicon wafer and down into a semicondu ...
Microprocessors are essential to many of the products we use every day such as televisions, cars, radios, home appliance ...
Did you know that the chip makers routinely make films one atom at a time? It's called Atomic Layer Deposition. It sound ...
Lisa Su, VP of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, describes what math and science have done for her.
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