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.
If this photo looks a bit ghostly that’s because it is. We have no surviving photos of the TEL model TMC 4400-A ...
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi-process system. It would become th ...
Imaging with photons has always been the go-to technology for inspection and metrology because it’s faster, cheaper ...
Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...
Chip execs, Bill Arnold, Gene Fuller, and Phil Ware weigh in on the then new FASB accounting standards for revenue ...
It is a general rule that a strategy will fail against the competitor who can master a grand strategy. The reason i ...
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited a crash in semiconductors. When it comes ...
Semiconductor History being made in the 1980’s The founding of TSMC on February 21, 1987 marks an earthquake t ...
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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.
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
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?
The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introductio ...
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
How the 2007-2008 financial crisis that led to the great recession ignited ...
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the su ...
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
Who really invented the Integrated Circuit? In this video, Dan Hutcheson has a c ...
IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the success ...
Wafer fab costs skyrocketing out of control
IBM’s EL-1: a milestone in e-beam lithography
Jack Kilby’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the invention of the Integrated ...
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconductor equipment industry. It developed many ...
VLSI's Customer Satisfaction Survey Celebrates 30 Years of award winning semicon ...
This video shows what it was like to work in a state-of-art fab during the late ...
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Ri ...
The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predict ...
John Bardeen and Transistor Physics by Howard R. Huff, International SEMATECH
When Back End of the Line wafer processing was new and emergent.
A Presentation Draft of The First Wafer Fab Cost Optimization Model1980
A conversation with Robert N. Noyce and Karel Urbanek
How the SIA got started is an video interview with the legendary Wilf Corrigan w ...
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 ...
William Holt: Striking the Right Balance Between Manufacturing Costs and Design ...
Rick Wallace: CEO, KLA-Tencor: KLA-Tencor and Accelerating the 45nm Yield Ramp
How Andy changed our industry in fundamental ways.
If you spend anytime researching Silicon Valley, you will find the name Robert N ...
Mark Bohr: Senior Fellow and Director of Process Architecture & Integration, Int ...
Alex describes the second phase of Teradyne history and how they built the compa ...
Kazuo Ushida: President, Nikon Precision Equipment Company: Advancing Nano-Litho ...
Teradyne - J973 VLSI Test System
These strategies were what made Intel so successful.
Advantest turned 50 on July 1, 2004. It was a milestone for one of Japan's great ...
The industry was in its childhood? When two or three SEMICON trade shows covered ...
KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary
Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi ...
This technical paper laid out the future of yield management, covering all the i ...
TEL's Clean Track Photoresist Processing System
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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