Electronic industries; Integrated circuit design; People; Photographs; Rubyliths; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology; Women;
Color slide of rubylith cutting. In Intel's early days, each layer of an integrated circuit design was drawn by hand, then transferred onto rubyliths. Operators such as the two women pictured here worked at light tables cutting each vector onto...
Computers; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; Microcomputers; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Color slide of the Altair 8800 microcomputer. The Altair 8800 microcomputer, based on the Intel 8080 microprocessor, was the first successful home or personal computer. It was designed to be expandable, holding up to 16 cards that plugged into 100...
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Robotics; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Color slide of 8 inch wafer production -- robotic arm loading wafer into production line.
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; Photographs; Robotics; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technology;
Color slide of 8 inch wafer production -- robotic arm loading wafer into production line.
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; Photographs; Robotics; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technology;
Color slide of 8-inch wafer production -- wafer boats staged at robotic arm loading area.
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technology;
Color slide of an 8-inch wafer in an automated production line.
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Color slide of workers monitoring furnace in which a layer of silicon dioxide is added to wafers. "Guns" read bar codes on the wafer boats.
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; Microscopes; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Color slide of an Intel Fab technician using a high powered microscope to inspect 8-inch wafers in the production line.
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology;
Color slide of an Intel Fab technician monitoring an 8-inch wafer on an automated manufacturing line.
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.
