Organizations

Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in semiconductor ATE.

Matsuno-san’s legacy will be his award-winning innovative strategy* to not immediately pare ‘duplicative’ resources ...

Advantest - Improvements in Cost-Efficiency via parallel memory IC test highlights from this 1986 Annual Report exc ...

Takeda Riken, the antecedent to Advantest, built it's brand on Semiconductor ATE reliability levels not seen previo ...

Takeda Riken announces plans to enter the US ATE (automatic test equipment) market with a 5O-MHz logic semiconducto ...

Takeda Riken, the antecedent to Advantest, was hardly known outside Japan in 1980 and by 1985 it was driving the VL ...

Advantest turned 50 on July 1, 2004. It was a milestone for one of Japan's greatest tech companies. This documents ...

Jack Trautman, Senior Vice President and GM of Agilent’s ATG, addresses the question of the value test adds to th ...

Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System :1985-89

This jewel is one of the most important lessons I remember from Bob Graham. The setting was at an off-site meeting ...

It is a basic principle that a large multi-product company, which should have all the advantages, can be beaten in ...

Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi-process system. It would become th ...

The Chip Insider's review of Applied Materials' Producer at its introduction

Applied Materials’ Producer marked an important turning point in the history of the semiconductor industry.

Applied Materials - AME 8100 Batch Etcher :1980-84 - The blockbuster that remapped the etch market.

Applied Materials - P5000, Etcher :1985-89 - Followed the 8300, but was eclipsed.

Applied Materials - Nitrox AMN-710 :1960s - Improved yields by sealing oxide pin holes.

Applied Materials - AMS 2000 Silox Reactor :1970s

Applied Materials - Precision 5000 CVD, The blockbuster that made cluster tool a household name (at least in fab ho ...

Dan Maydan talks about how Applied Materials built it into a multi-billion dollar, multi-product company

Applied Materials - The Omega-Centura System :1990s

Applied Materials - SPCVD-4000 :1960s - An LPCVD tool from a time when Applied could do little right. The vacuum pu ...

Applied Materials - Silox Model AMS 2600 & 2660 :1960s - An early tool for low temperature oxides. Used for reflow, ...

Applied Materials - Silox Model AMS 1200 :1960s - Wafers were laid out by hand inside the chambers.

Applied Materials - Precision Implant 9000 :1985-89 - Lintott’s child and another blockbuster.

Applied Materials - Precision Etch 8300 :1985-89 - The extension of the blockbuster that remapped the etch market.

Applied Materials - PECVD_application-bulletin :1970s

Applied Materials - Implant 9000, Ion Implanter :1985-1989

Applied Materials - CA-800 Mask Aligner and Exposure System: :1980-84

Applied Materials - CA-2020H Mask Aligner :1980-84

Applied Materials - Autolign CA 3400 Mask Aligner :1980-84 - The remnants of a failed merger.

Applied Materials - AMS 1000 Silox Reactor :1970s

Applied Materials - 7830Si CD-SEM :1990s - Opal’s child.

The system that built the company.

Applied materials vertical rotary reactors are widely used by chemical vapor deposition (CPD)...

In the final installment of this three-part interview, Jim Morgan expands on the strategies that made AMAT the succ ...

The second part of this three-part interview covers Applied Materials in the 1980s and its transformation into a gl ...

Jim Morgan talks about the early days of Applied Materials; how he brought focus by paring down the company's busin ...

Applied Materials led the way out of selling products to seeking solutions to customer needs as early as the sevent ...

Dan Maydan gives his tips about how to be successful running a technology company in the lessons learned section.

Dan Maydan talks about the early days of turning Applied Materials into a technology company

In 2004, ASML turned 20. This book was originally published to give employees an insight into the history of ASML a ...

Martin van den Brink, employee number 1 at ASML, describes what it's been like to take on Japan's giants and win.

Factoids from the edge: Some like to say that EUV development has cost more than the Manhattan Project, the largest ...

ASML - PAS 2500/10 Stepper :1985-89

ASML - Philips Beamwriter :1985-89

Just as the first lights of a new millennium were dawning in 1999, ASML announced its newest lithography product, T ...

Though not the first step & scan system—that honor goes to Perkin Elmer—this unit was the second step & scan sy ...

The system that built the company.

Virtually everyone seemed to be entering the semiconductor capital equipment business in the early eighties. An ent ...

Canon - Various models of Mask Aligners :1980-84 - The only company to offer all 3 types of litho tools.

Canon - FPA-5000 ES2 Aligner :1990s - An early DUV scanner.

Canon - FPA-3000 EX4 Aligner :1990s

Though not as elegantly encased as the Perkin-Elmer 100, here was Japan’s answer to the threatening storms of the ...

Proximity aligners were a bridge tool between the original contact aligners and projection aligners. Yield from con ...

1961: First Monolithic Silicon IC Chip. Invented by Robert Noyce, Fairchild

Possibly the 1st high speed, high pin count, LSI Test System.

This key piece of equipment was the granddaddy of most modern IC test systems and was the workhorse of the industry ...

Fairchild lead the industry from mesa-transistors to diffusion using Jean Hoerni's planar process, which would lay ...

Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money loser to the world's largest semiconduc ...

Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money loser to the world's largest semiconduc ...

Jim Bowen talks about how he took Fairchild Test Systems Group from a money loser to the world's largest semiconduc ...