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- |Jun 19, 2017|
In Ancient Egypt, shoes denoted social status, even distinguishing commoners and nobility by the color and length of their footwear. Recreated ruby slippers commemorating the 50th anniversary of...
- |Jun 12, 2017|
Used to extend the capabilities of conventional lithography, multiple patterning is a process of overlaying patterns of larger dimensions to achieve smaller and/or more tightly packed features. In...
- |Jun 5, 2017|
From smart grids to smart buildings, the Internet of Things (IoT) has swept across Asia. Going well beyond consumer wearables, today’s city planners are leveraging IoT-enabled technologies to...
- |May 30, 2017|
“Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you,” are the familiar words of Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant during the world’s very first phone call on March 10, 1876. Shortly after this...
- |May 22, 2017|
At Lam Research, our manufacturing employees play a vital role in building some of the most complicated products in the world – chipmaking equipment that is used to make the devices we enjoy...
- |May 15, 2017|
Imagine being able to deposit a film of material just a few atomic layers at a time. As impossible as that sounds, atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a reality. In fact, it’s being used in an...
- |May 8, 2017|
Good health and happy, successful lives go hand in hand – and healthy choices stick better when we learn them as children. That’s why we joined the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation...
- |May 1, 2017|
Household kitchens have been revolutionized by chips (we’re talking the non-edible kind). Some of us may bask in fond memories of “low-tech” cooking like toasting marshmallows over an open...
- |Apr 17, 2017|
This year, more than a billion people from over 193 countries are expected to participate in Earth Day activities. Marking its 47th anniversary on Saturday, April 22, 2017, Earth Day is an annual...
- |Apr 10, 2017|
Southeast Asia is a major hub for the chip industry’s assembly, packaging, and test services – back-end manufacturing processes that are becoming an increasingly important topic of discussion....
- |Apr 7, 2017|
Panel-level fan-out chip manufacturing – using large square or rectangular substrates instead of wafers – is being developed as a means to lower the cost of back-end processes for some...
- |Mar 27, 2017|
Lam Research was recently honored to receive Infineon’s “Supplier Award 2016” during the leading chipmaker’s Global Supplier Day in Malaysia. The award recognizes outstanding supplier...
- |Mar 19, 2017|
User experience designers around the world recognize that a screen isn’t always the most logical interface for every task or every person. Currently, much of our time is dominated by screens. At...
- |Mar 13, 2017|
Do you have March 14 circled on your calendar? If you do, then you’ve probably been looking forward to the annual celebration of Pi Day, when we recognize the mathematical constant pi (π)....
- |Mar 9, 2017|
Lam Research has been recognized by Intel as a 2016 Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award winner. The PQS award celebrates exceptional, persistent performance and the continuous pursuit of...
- |Mar 6, 2017|
In recent years, SEMICON China has become the semiconductor industry’s largest annual tradeshow, with much of its popularity likely due to the region’s growing chipmaking business. Attendees...
- |Feb 27, 2017|
Wondering what it’s like to work as a new college graduate (NCG) at Lam Research? If so, we can give you a really good idea, straight from several of our very own NCG employees. We asked these...
- |Feb 21, 2017|
It really is remarkable how our favorite tech products continue to become more compact and powerful, with today’s nanoscale chipmaking quite literally pushing the limits of what is possible. One...
- |Feb 13, 2017|
Giving back to our local communities is a year-round mission at Lam, and we capped off the end of 2016 with our “Deliver Joy” holiday giving activities. More than 1,400 Lam employees around...
- |Feb 6, 2017|
For its 30th anniversary, SEMICON Korea anticipates hosting its largest show ever, with an estimated 40,000 attendees converging at COEX in Seoul on February 8-10, 2017. Korea is the world’s...
- |Jan 25, 2017|
Along with many of our friends and colleagues around the world, we look forward to the start of the new lunar year and anticipate the opportunities and experiences it may bring. For 2017, the...
- |Jan 17, 2017|
Ever open the body of your smartphone (perhaps unintentionally) and see small, black rectangles stuck on a circuit board? Those black rectangles are packaged chips. The external chip structure...
- |Jan 9, 2017|
The next major trend in consumer wearables may be smart fashion. For years, high fashion designers and celebrities have been incorporating smart technology into their clothing for visual effects....
- |Jan 3, 2017|
Happy New Year and welcome back to the Lam Blog! For our first article of 2017, we wanted to share a few of our most popular stories from last year. These made our short list for their blend of...
- |Dec 15, 2016|
As 2016 comes to a close, we thought we’d take a few moments to look back on the year as reflected in the Lam Blog. Through our stories, we shared some of our proud moments, like when the...
- |Dec 12, 2016|
This year marks the 40th anniversary for SEMICON Japan, one of the most extensive international exhibitions of semiconductor equipment and materials. Each SEMI tradeshow has its own unique...
- |Nov 28, 2016|
Did you know that different patterns require different types of multiple patterning? Today’s advanced chips are more complex than ever before, with transistors and other structures that are...
- |Nov 21, 2016|
Thinking of a career in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field? The information we collected during interviews with four of Lam’s women engineers working in our Asia offices...
- |Nov 14, 2016|
Greek philosopher Democritus (460-370 BC) first proposed the existence of an ultimate particle, which he described as “atomos.” He probably never dreamed that one day there would be devices so...
- |Nov 7, 2016|
State-of-the-art advances in plasma research and thin film science will be discussed at the AVS 63rd International Symposium and Exhibition, being held November 6-11 in Nashville, Tennessee. This...
- |Oct 31, 2016|
The lines between science fiction and reality continue to blur thanks to technological advances in devices like thermal imaging equipment, 3D printing, and even neural implants. Technology –...
- |Oct 24, 2016|
For the third year in a row, hundreds of kids hopped around in bunny suits, learned about technology, and had an all-around fun time at Lam’s Bring Our Children to Work Day 2016. This year,...
- |Oct 17, 2016|
Recognized globally as a major IT hub, India is an important technology contributor and our Bangalore office is more than keeping pace. Since first established in 2000, Lam Research India has...
- |Oct 10, 2016|
Lam is proud to be one of nearly 2,500 companies across the United States celebrating modern manufacturing and inspiring the next generation of workers. Each October on National Manufacturing Day,...
- |Oct 3, 2016|
From smartphones to televisions to refrigerators, it is hard to go more than a few hours without using a semiconductor-enabled device. In fact, since the mid-20th century, semiconductors have been...
- |Sep 26, 2016|
Electrochemistry and solid-state science and technology will come together at the PRiME 2016 Meeting, held October 2-7 in Honolulu, Hawaii. One of the largest research conferences in the world,...
- |Sep 19, 2016|
We take corporate social responsibility (CSR) concerns like caring for the environment and our communities seriously here at Lam. Our commitment to social responsibility and sustainability plays...
- |Sep 12, 2016|
Transistors are at the heart of our cherished electronics. Millions, or even billions, of these tiny switches go to work for us when we check our mobile phones, use our computers, start our...
- |Sep 6, 2016|
With the introduction of Lam’s latest Flex™ dielectric etch system, we have expanded our atomic layer etching (ALE) portfolio to include both conductor and dielectric etch. At the 10 nm...
- |Aug 29, 2016|
The semiconductor manufacturing community is gearing up for SEMICON Taiwan, the largest microelectronics event in Taiwan, which is expected to attract more than 40,000 visitors from around the...
- |Aug 23, 2016|
To thank our suppliers for their invaluable support and contributions, Lam recently hosted its Supplier Day with a focus on enhancing collaboration and renewing opportunities for mutual success....
- |Aug 9, 2016|
Addressing critical needs for next-generation 3D NAND and DRAM devices, Lam has developed the industry’s first all-atomic layer deposition (ALD) low-fluorine tungsten (LFW) fill process with its...
- |Aug 1, 2016|
Multiple patterning is an innovative approach to scaling semiconductors, but it also poses significant challenges controlling process variations. Lam’s Rick Gottscho, executive vice president of...
- |Jul 25, 2016|
Chip designs are changing. Features are shrinking to incredibly small dimensions and radically new device architectures are being devised to supply consumers with smaller, more powerful...
- |Jul 17, 2016|
The semiconductor industry has long relied on the development of innovative device architectures and technologies to continue device scaling. Making these a reality in production, however,...
- |Jul 11, 2016|
The semiconductor industry uses so many unique terms, it practically has its own language. To keep up on the latest developments, knowing that “language” can be really helpful. For instance,...
- |Jul 5, 2016|
What do the military and the semiconductor industry have in common? More than you might think! In terms of the type of work, they are “worlds away,” and yet many of the skills developed during...
- |Jun 27, 2016|
What’s left after the relatively easy semiconductor manufacturing issues have been solved? The wicked hard problems – including things like scaling transistors down to 5 nm, reducing power...
- |Jun 19, 2016|
Industry experts came together recently to discuss some of the critical challenges facing interconnect scaling. As the number of transistors on advanced chips continues to increase, fabricating...
- |Jun 13, 2016|
Beijing, China — The award ceremony for the 2015 Lam Research Tsinghua University thesis awards was recently held at Tsinghua University in China. Martin Anstice, president and CEO of Lam...