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Date of upload: Oct 26, 2023 ^^
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I remember working on old GCA wafer tracks in the 1980s. They used paper tape to load their programs. Really, paper tape! 5:13 I remember also working on the Perkin Elmer Micralign, though I'm sure they looked a bit different to the one shown here, probably earlier models. I had a lamp explode in one once, that ruined my day. Later worked on the Canon steppers, we had one pre-production early model and it was possible to get the wiring loom wrapped around the precision mirror assembly beneath the stage, guess how I found that out. The software was ghastly but generally the machines performed well.
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The truth is Intel became the top customer of many US equipment companies in the late 1990s. They then used their PICOS (Program for the Improvement and Cost Optimisation of Suppliers) strategy to continually beat them on price. I remember stories of SVG engineers essentially reporting to Intel reps on their Wilton campus. In fact, Intel would cherry pick every lens and then demand more qualifications than any other customer. As a result, Intel killed many of its suppliers. SVG, Gasonix, PRI Automation come to mind.
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This is a great channel. I've been working in the electronics industry for decades, as an end user for finished semiconductors. When reading the industry "rags" (EE Times, EDN, ...), the semiconductor industry, is, and has always been, the poster child of volatility. Even compared to nonsense, such as crypto. But its amazes me that our modern technological world is dependent on the products of such a volatile business !
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The best part is that Nikon and Canon were denied by the US gov to be a part of EUV development program, not only ASML was able to convince the US gov to join the efforts but to buy SVGL and a bunch of other companies to become the sole player in game, (the initial semiconductor equipment manufacturers were; SVGL, ASML, and USAL).
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Dear Asianonmetry, Thank you once again for another well developed and informative piece. Of course the irony is that the very same voices in the American political sphere that moaned about national security and loss of technology issues, were the exact same voices that promoted low taxes, small government, and the idea that business needs to support itself without State and Federal Tax Breaks or outright Funding to support that very same technology. Add to this the ever present ( and primary ) American focus for quarterly earnings, and we have the reasons for this story.
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There is, actually, one remaining American niche lithography tool manufacturer: Onto Innovation litho division in Boston, formerly Rudolph Technology, which is focused (ha-ha) on Package and RDL related steppers that compete with (mainly) Ushio in h/I-line tools. Of course, the technology is pretty low and not really competitive with Asian tools.More of their revenue comes from metrology & inspection tool division in Milpitas, where they compete with nearby KLA.
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For the record, Torossian is an armenian surname. According to armenian sources I found, the "Der Torossian" family was "famously one of the larger and more influential Armenian families who fled to Syria during the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917". However, I could not find definitive confirmation whether he is armenian or if he considers himself armenian; or if he merely has the surname as heritage from his father's line.
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@superskrub4209
6 months ago
I was really wondering why and how the USA government managed to gain so much control over what a certain company in the Netherlands does, this clears it up.
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