Color photograph of chemical handlers monitoring and dispensing chemicals required in the wafer fabrication (Fab) plant. Chemical dispensing is an automated process.
Color photograph of operator at computer workstation. Intel technicians command wafers' progress through the 8" wafer fabrication plant, (Fab) computer work stations, outside of the fabrication bays.
Color photograph of air handlers exchanging the air in wafer fabrication (Fab) plant to remove any dust particles that may be exhaled or shed from the fab operators.
Color photograph of employees dressing in bunnysuits. Intel fabrication (Fab) plant employees must don Gortex® suits called bunnysuits prior to entering their cleanroom workareas.
Clean rooms; Computers; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of Intel technicians monitoring the wafers' progress through the 8" wafer fabrication plant, through bay windows.
Air showers; Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of an air shower. The final step prior to entering the wafer fabrication (Fab) workarea is a 360 turn in the airshower. The airshower removes any particles that may have been picked up wihle the employee puts on the fab bunnysuit...
Clean rooms; Computers; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Printers; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of cleanroom printers. Special printing supplies are used to maintain the cleanroom environment required in the wafer fabrication process.
Clean rooms; Computers; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of chemical handlers monitoring and dispensing chemicals required in the wafer fabrication (Fab) plant. Chemical dispensing is an automated process.
Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of fab operator standing next to 8" wafer fabrication (Fab) heated bank of wafer furnaces.
Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Lithography; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of fab monitoring wafers in fabrication plant's lithography process area.
Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Lithography; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Photograph of fab operator carrying wafers in fabrication plant's lithography process area.
Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of Intel technicians commanding wafers' progress through the 8" wafer fabrication plant, (Fab) computer work stations, outside of the fabrication bays.
Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Robotic movement tools; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of Intel technicians monitoring the wafers' progress through the 8" wafer fabrication plant, (Fab) using robotic movement tools.
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Color photograph of a basic container housing 300mm wafers in the automated fabrication (Fab) process.
Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of Intel technicians monitoring the wafers' progress through the 300mm fabrication plant, (Fab) using automated measurement tools and strict quality standards.
Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology; Vertical diffusion furnaces;
Color photograph of a technician checking wafers processing in a vertical diffusion furnace, one of the many tools through which wafers must pass as they go through the hundreds of steps that make up the manufacturing process.
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Color photograph of Intel technician monitoring wafers in an automated wet etch tool. The process cleans the wafers of any excess process chemicals or contamination.
Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technicians; Technology;
Color photograph of a clean room floor. Clean air continuously flows from every pore of the ceiling and through the holes in the floor of the fabrication (Fab) plant. All of the air in the clean room or fab is replaced several times every minute.
