The Forgotten Story of the First Automated Fab: In 1970, an IBM Middle Manager had a Vision: A Finished Chip in One Day

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IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10779340

Jesse Aronstein

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Abstract

In 1970, Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication line that would produce integrated circuits in less than one day. Not only was such a goal gutsy 54 years ago, it would be bold even in today's billion-dollar fabs, where the fabrication time of an advanced IC is measured in weeks, not days. Back then, ICs, such as random-access memory chips, were typically produced in a monthlong stop-and-go march through dozens of manual work stations.

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第一个自动化晶圆厂的被遗忘的故事：1970年，IBM的一位中层经理有一个愿景：在一天内完成芯片

1970年，比尔·哈丁（Bill Harding）设想了一条全自动晶圆生产线，可以在不到一天的时间内生产集成电路。这样的目标不仅在54年前是大胆的，即使在今天数十亿美元的晶圆厂，这也是大胆的，在今天，先进的集成电路的制造时间是以周为单位的，而不是几天。当时，随机存取存储器芯片等集成电路的生产通常需要一个月的时间，在几十个手工工位上走走停停地进行。

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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

0.00%

发文量

254

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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