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
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The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Riordan, co-author of Crystal Fire, discusses how it came to be. ... 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
The emergence of crystalline silicon and silicon-based material such as silicon- ...
The emergence of crystalline silicon and silicon-based material such as silicon-germanium as the premier material and the personnel driving the integrated circuit (IC) microelectronics revolution will be review ... See more
Automatic Test Systems (ATS) encompass a broad range of equipment-in size and in ...
Automatic Test Systems (ATS) encompass a broad range of equipment-in size and in function as well as in price. It includes all equipment that is used to electrically verify a device's functionality. VLSI Resear ... See more
Key images drawn from donated and archived documents in VLSI's library. These im ...
Key images drawn from donated and archived documents in VLSI's library. These images have been carefully selected for their historical significance as they show history in the making. ... See more
Bonding and inspection has historically been overlooked by upper management in s ...
Bonding and inspection has historically been overlooked by upper management in semiconductor companies. Their attention has been drawn by the enormous capital requirements of wafer fabrication. However, this ... See more
Assembly equipment consists of those types of equipment used to separate the co ...
Assembly equipment consists of those types of equipment used to separate the completed wafer into its individual dice and to assemble each die into its own package. The assembly equipment market comprises roug ... See more
The sweeping revolution brought about by integrated circuits has caused change n ...
The sweeping revolution brought about by integrated circuits has caused change not only in electronics, but also in the very act of manufacturing the integrated circuit itself. Process equipment, assembly equip ... See more
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