[BrendaEM] walks us through a teardown of a machine that was designed under just such a lack of constraint. It sat inside of a big box whose job was to take silicon wafers in on one side and spit ...

The company also conducts R&D to address emerging testing challenges and applications; develops advanced test-interface solutions for wafer sort and final test; produces scanning electron microscopes ...

As a result, IC industry capacity is also becoming more concentrated and this trend is especially prevalent in 300mm wafer technology. Figure 1 lists the 300mm installed capacity leaders for 2012 and ...

Vast majority of that wafer capacity is local to those two countries. December 18, 2014 -- South Korean and Taiwanese chip companies are well known for manufacturing prowess when it comes to ...