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Semiconductor History | Yokkaichi Fab — From DRAM Retreat to NAND Scale
1992
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Semiconductor History | Toshiba Komukai — Flash Memory Escapes the Lab
1987
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Semiconductor History | NEC Tamagawa — Rivals Share a VLSI Laboratory
Apr, 1976
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Semiconductor History | Sony Nihonbashi — A Radio Industry Begins Upstairs
5/7/1946
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Semiconductor History | JASM Kumamoto — Japan Returns to Logic Manufacturing
2/24/2024
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Semiconductor History | Marunouchi Building — Renesas Technology Takes Shape
4/1/2003
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Semiconductor History | TBS Akasaka — The Broadcaster That Backed a Tool Company
11/11/1963
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Semiconductor History | Suwa Seikosha — The Watch That Forced an IC to Sip Power
12/25/1969
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Semiconductor History | Sharp Tenri — The Calculator War Gets a Plaque
12/1/2005
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Semiconductor History | Nikon Yokohama — The Stepper Plant Closes
9/30/2025
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Semiconductor History | Advantest Kitakyushu — Testing Moves Closer to the Customer
Jun, 2002
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Semiconductor History | Lasertec Shin-Yokohama — A Company Built Around Invisible Defects
Oct, 1976
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Semiconductor History | Shin-Etsu Isobe — The Chip Story Begins as Crystal
1960
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Semiconductor History | ROHM Kyoto — A Resistor Maker Builds a Chip Line
Oct, 1970
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — A Music Company Builds an IC Factory
1971
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Semiconductor History | Canon Utsunomiya — Camera Optics Become Chipmaking Tools
1983
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Semiconductor History | Toppan Koishikawa — A Printing Plant Learns Transistor Masks
1960
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Semiconductor History | DNP Ichigaya — Printing Becomes a Photomask
1959
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Semiconductor History | Hamamatsu Photonics — Light Becomes a Semiconductor Business
Jan, 1985
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Semiconductor History | Nichia Anan — The Blue LED’s Bright Success and Bitter Patent Fight
11/29/1993
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Semiconductor History | ULVAC Chigasaki — The Vacuum Cluster That Kept Wafers Clean
Dec, 1985
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Semiconductor History | JEOL Akishima — Electron Optics Draws the Mask, One Beam at a Time
1998
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Semiconductor History | Shinko Kohoku — The Package Beneath the Famous Chip
1963
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Semiconductor History | Ibiden Ogaki — Betting the Company on a Plastic Chip Substrate
1994
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Semiconductor History | Kyocera Fushimi — The Ceramic Beneath IBM’s System/360
Apr, 1966
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Semiconductor History | SCREEN Kyoto — Printing Chemistry Becomes Wafer Equipment
Nov, 1975
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Semiconductor History | TOK Nakamaruko — The Light-Sensitive Film Between Mask and Silicon
1968
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Semiconductor History | Fujitsu Kawasaki — The Computer Maker Builds Its Own ICs
1968
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Semiconductor History | Panasonic Kadoma — The Conglomerate Sells Its Last Chip Business
9/1/2020
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Semiconductor History | IIM-1, 千歳 — The Fab Japan Is Betting On, Without a Customer Yet
9/1/2023
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Semiconductor History | Nisshinbo Nihonbashi — Two Analog Chip Houses Become One
1/1/2022
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Semiconductor History | DAIHEN Juso — A Welding Company Learns to Carry Wafers
2022
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Semiconductor History | EBARA Haneda — The Pump Maker Learns to Flatten Silicon
1992
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Semiconductor History | HOYA Nakaochiai — Optical Glass Becomes the Mask's Foundation
Jan, 1974
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Semiconductor History | CKD Komaki — Gas Lines Become a Clean, Integrated System
1992
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Semiconductor History | Sumitomo Bakelite Tennoz — The Resin That Protects the Die
1968
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Semiconductor History | Kurita Nakano — Water Pure Enough to Touch a Wafer
1973
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Semiconductor History | Muratec Kyoto — The Wafer Carrier Moves Overhead
1986
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Semiconductor History | Mitsubishi Electric Marunouchi — SiC Enters the Living Room
8/24/2010
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Semiconductor History | Resonac Shiodome — Two Materials Lineages Become One
1/1/2023
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Semiconductor History | Yaskawa Kitakyushu — The Robot Enters the Vacuum
1987
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Semiconductor History | Mitsui High-tec Komine — Stamping the Frame Around the Chip
Jun, 1969
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Semiconductor History | Nitto Kameyama — Epoxy Replaces the Metal Can
1966
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Semiconductor History | AGC Marunouchi — Glass Learns to Reflect EUV
2017
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Semiconductor History | Daikin Umeda — Fluorine Etches the Pattern
1980
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Semiconductor History | NGK Nagoya — Ceramics Hold the Wafer Still
1996
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Semiconductor History | JX Isohara — Metal Becomes a Nanometer-Thin Wire
May, 1985
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Semiconductor History | Sumitomo Metal Mining Ome — The Mine Learns the Leadframe
Sep, 1967
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Semiconductor History | Kokusai Toyama — The Batch Furnace Turns Vertical
1989
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Semiconductor History | Ajinomoto Kawasaki — Food Chemistry Builds the CPU’s Floor
1996
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Semiconductor History | LINTEC Itabashi — Tape Holds the Wafer While the Saw Cuts
1986
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Semiconductor History | MARUWA Owariasahi — Pottery Becomes a Heat Path
4/5/1973
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Semiconductor History | DOWA Kosaka — The Mine Learns Semiconductor Purity
1982
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Semiconductor History | Sanyo Oizumi — A Broad Chip Catalog Is Sold
1/1/2011
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Semiconductor History | OKI Hachioji — The Chip Business Becomes LAPIS
10/1/2008
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Semiconductor History | Sony Atsugi — The Camera Learns to See in Silicon
1970
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Semiconductor History | Fujifilm Akasaka — Film Chemistry Becomes Photoresist
1983
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Semiconductor History | Tokuyama Shunan — Soda Chemistry Reaches Eleven-Nines Silicon
1984
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Semiconductor History | MGC Katsushika — Resin Replaces Ceramic Under the Chip
1976
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Semiconductor History | Hitachi Naka — The Microscope Becomes a Yield Tool
1984
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Semiconductor History | DISCO Omori — The Blade Maker Builds the Saw
1975
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Semiconductor History | SUMCO Imari — Japan Consolidates for the 300-Millimeter Wafer
7/30/1999
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Semiconductor History | Fuji Electric Matsumoto — The IGBT Makes Power Electronic
1988
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Semiconductor History | AKM Hibiya — Fifty Billion Magnetic Eyes, Then a Factory Fire
1974
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Semiconductor History | DENSO Kariya — The Car Supplier Brings Chips In-House
1968
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Semiconductor History | NJR Kawagoe — The 4558 Turns Two Amplifiers Into an Audio Standard
1976
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Semiconductor History | Ricoh Ikeda — A Famicom MPU Opens a Merchant Chip Business
7/15/1983
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Semiconductor History | Hitachi Musashi — SH-2 Wins a Console, and Multiprocessing Gets Complicated
1993
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Semiconductor History | NEC Tamagawa — The μPD7220 Lets Silicon Draw
1981
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Semiconductor History | Sharp Fukuyama — Game Demand Builds an Automated LSI Plant
1985
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Semiconductor History | PFU Kahoku — MN1610 Reaches Sixteen Bits Before the Standard Arrives
1975
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — YM2151 Turns FM Synthesis Into a Merchant Chip
1983
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Semiconductor History | NEC Tamagawa — V30 Makes Compatibility a Competitive Product
1984
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Semiconductor History | Toshiba Oita — Emotion Engine Turns a Console Into a Fab Partnership
6/1/1999
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Semiconductor History | Fujitsu Kawasaki — SPARC64 VII Makes the Server CPU a System Decision
7/14/2008
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Semiconductor History | Sony Nagasaki — Cell’s Fab Changes Hands and Finds a Second Life
3/3/2008
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Semiconductor History | Mitsubishi North Itami — M5L8080A Makes Compatibility a Manufacturing Strategy
1975
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Semiconductor History | NEC Tamagawa — 78K0S Shrinks Control to a Handful of Pins
7/13/2006
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Semiconductor History | DENSO Hirose — The Prius IGBT Survives the Heat
Oct, 1997
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Semiconductor History | ROHM Chikugo — Silicon Carbide Leaves the Laboratory
12/21/2010
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Semiconductor History | Toyota Motomachi — DENSO’s SiC Reaches the Mirai
12/9/2020
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Semiconductor History | Sony Nagasaki — PSP Puts Graphics and Video on One Chip
12/12/2004
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — YM2612 Gives the Mega Drive Its Metallic Voice
10/29/1988
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Semiconductor History | Hitachi Musashi — SH-4 Simplifies Sega's Last Console
11/27/1998
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — AICA Turns Console Sound Into a Programmable Subsystem
11/27/1998
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — SCSP Bridges FM and Sampled Sound
11/22/1994
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Semiconductor History | Fujitsu Kawasaki — MB86233 Gives Model 1 Its Geometry Engine
Aug, 1992
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Semiconductor History | RIKEN Kobe — A64FX Carries Arm to Number One
6/22/2020
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Semiconductor History | JAMSTEC Yokohama — Earth Simulator Makes Vector Silicon a National Machine
Jun, 2002
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Semiconductor History | SC17 Denver — NEC Fits a Vector Supercomputer Into a PCIe Card
11/13/2017
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Semiconductor History | Makuhari Messe — Toshiba’s TLCS-900/H Enters a Crowded Pocket War
10/9/1998
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Semiconductor History | Makuhari Messe — NEC’s VR4300 Carries MIPS Into Nintendo 64
11/24/1995
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Semiconductor History | NEC Tamagawa — V60 Runs the Game While the DSPs Draw It
Aug, 1992
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — YM2610 Puts Samples Beside FM
4/26/1990
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Semiconductor History | Nintendo Fukuine — Sony Gives the Super Famicom a Computer for Sound
11/21/1990
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Semiconductor History | Ricoh Ikeda — 5A22 Keeps the Super Famicom Familiar but Slow
11/21/1990
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Semiconductor History | Ricoh Ikeda — Two Picture Processors Make Mode 7 Look Easy
11/21/1990
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Semiconductor History | Sega Haneda — Two Video Processors Make the Saturn Powerful and Difficult
11/22/1994
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Semiconductor History | Nintendo Fukuine — DMG-CPU Puts the Game Boy’s Core on One Chip
4/21/1989
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Semiconductor History | Nintendo Kamitoba — CPU AGB Brings 32-Bit ARM to the Game Boy
3/21/2001
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — OPL2 Gives the PC a Sound Standard
1987
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — OPLL Makes FM Cheap Enough to Build In
10/18/1987
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — OPNA Doubles FM Sound Without Breaking the Old Library
10/15/1987
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — Y8950 Records Sound and Loses the Price War
1987
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Semiconductor History | Mitsubishi Fukuoka — 1,400 Amps Inside One IGBT Module
Mar, 2003
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Semiconductor History | TBS Akasaka — The Broadcaster That Backed a Tool Company
11/11/1963
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12/25/1969
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12/1/2005
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Semiconductor History | Nikon Yokohama — The Stepper Plant Closes
9/30/2025
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Jun, 2002
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Semiconductor History | Lasertec Shin-Yokohama — A Company Built Around Invisible Defects
Oct, 1976
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1960
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Oct, 1970
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — A Music Company Builds an IC Factory
1971
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1983
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1960
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Semiconductor History | DNP Ichigaya — Printing Becomes a Photomask
1959
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Semiconductor History | Hamamatsu Photonics — Light Becomes a Semiconductor Business
Jan, 1985
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Semiconductor History | Nichia Anan — The Blue LED’s Bright Success and Bitter Patent Fight
11/29/1993
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Semiconductor History | ULVAC Chigasaki — The Vacuum Cluster That Kept Wafers Clean
Dec, 1985
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Semiconductor History | JEOL Akishima — Electron Optics Draws the Mask, One Beam at a Time
1998
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1963
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Semiconductor History | Ibiden Ogaki — Betting the Company on a Plastic Chip Substrate
1994
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Semiconductor History | Kyocera Fushimi — The Ceramic Beneath IBM’s System/360
Apr, 1966
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Semiconductor History | SCREEN Kyoto — Printing Chemistry Becomes Wafer Equipment
Nov, 1975
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Semiconductor History | TOK Nakamaruko — The Light-Sensitive Film Between Mask and Silicon
1968
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Semiconductor History | Fujitsu Kawasaki — The Computer Maker Builds Its Own ICs
1968
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Semiconductor History | Panasonic Kadoma — The Conglomerate Sells Its Last Chip Business
9/1/2020
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9/1/2023
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Semiconductor History | Nisshinbo Nihonbashi — Two Analog Chip Houses Become One
1/1/2022
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Semiconductor History | DAIHEN Juso — A Welding Company Learns to Carry Wafers
2022
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Semiconductor History | EBARA Haneda — The Pump Maker Learns to Flatten Silicon
1992
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Semiconductor History | HOYA Nakaochiai — Optical Glass Becomes the Mask's Foundation
Jan, 1974
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1992
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Semiconductor History | Sumitomo Bakelite Tennoz — The Resin That Protects the Die
1968
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Semiconductor History | Kurita Nakano — Water Pure Enough to Touch a Wafer
1973
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Semiconductor History | Muratec Kyoto — The Wafer Carrier Moves Overhead
1986
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Semiconductor History | Mitsubishi Electric Marunouchi — SiC Enters the Living Room
8/24/2010
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Semiconductor History | Resonac Shiodome — Two Materials Lineages Become One
1/1/2023
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Semiconductor History | Yaskawa Kitakyushu — The Robot Enters the Vacuum
1987
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Jun, 1969
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Semiconductor History | Nitto Kameyama — Epoxy Replaces the Metal Can
1966
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Semiconductor History | AGC Marunouchi — Glass Learns to Reflect EUV
2017
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1980
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1996
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May, 1985
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Sep, 1967
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1989
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1996
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1986
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4/5/1973
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1982
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1/1/2011
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10/1/2008
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Semiconductor History | Sony Atsugi — The Camera Learns to See in Silicon
1970
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1983
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1984
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1976
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1984
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1975
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7/30/1999
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Semiconductor History | Fuji Electric Matsumoto — The IGBT Makes Power Electronic
1988
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Semiconductor History | AKM Hibiya — Fifty Billion Magnetic Eyes, Then a Factory Fire
1974
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Semiconductor History | DENSO Kariya — The Car Supplier Brings Chips In-House
1968
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Semiconductor History | NJR Kawagoe — The 4558 Turns Two Amplifiers Into an Audio Standard
1976
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Semiconductor History | Ricoh Ikeda — A Famicom MPU Opens a Merchant Chip Business
7/15/1983
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Semiconductor History | Hitachi Musashi — SH-2 Wins a Console, and Multiprocessing Gets Complicated
1993
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1981
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1985
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1975
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1983
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1984
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6/1/1999
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7/14/2008
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Semiconductor History | Sony Nagasaki — Cell’s Fab Changes Hands and Finds a Second Life
3/3/2008
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1975
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7/13/2006
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Oct, 1997
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12/21/2010
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12/9/2020
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12/12/2004
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — YM2612 Gives the Mega Drive Its Metallic Voice
10/29/1988
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11/27/1998
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11/27/1998
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — SCSP Bridges FM and Sampled Sound
11/22/1994
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Aug, 1992
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6/22/2020
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Jun, 2002
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11/13/2017
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Semiconductor History | Makuhari Messe — Toshiba’s TLCS-900/H Enters a Crowded Pocket War
10/9/1998
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Semiconductor History | Makuhari Messe — NEC’s VR4300 Carries MIPS Into Nintendo 64
11/24/1995
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Semiconductor History | NEC Tamagawa — V60 Runs the Game While the DSPs Draw It
Aug, 1992
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — YM2610 Puts Samples Beside FM
4/26/1990
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Semiconductor History | Nintendo Fukuine — Sony Gives the Super Famicom a Computer for Sound
11/21/1990
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Semiconductor History | Ricoh Ikeda — 5A22 Keeps the Super Famicom Familiar but Slow
11/21/1990
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Semiconductor History | Ricoh Ikeda — Two Picture Processors Make Mode 7 Look Easy
11/21/1990
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Semiconductor History | Sega Haneda — Two Video Processors Make the Saturn Powerful and Difficult
11/22/1994
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Semiconductor History | Nintendo Fukuine — DMG-CPU Puts the Game Boy’s Core on One Chip
4/21/1989
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Semiconductor History | Nintendo Kamitoba — CPU AGB Brings 32-Bit ARM to the Game Boy
3/21/2001
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — OPL2 Gives the PC a Sound Standard
1987
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — OPLL Makes FM Cheap Enough to Build In
10/18/1987
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — OPNA Doubles FM Sound Without Breaking the Old Library
10/15/1987
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Semiconductor History | Yamaha Toyooka — Y8950 Records Sound and Loses the Price War
1987
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Semiconductor History | Mitsubishi Fukuoka — 1,400 Amps Inside One IGBT Module
Mar, 2003
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