Date: 14/07/2008

Would like to know how the semiconductor chips are made!

NEC Electronics, the leading Japanese semiconductor vendor has a virtual IC manufacturing demonstration tour for the design engineers and other professionals who are interested in semiconductor manufacturing.

This very friendly demonstration shows every important step and shows video clips of the real machines doing the real work. Each process is explained in simple and easy to understand language. This can be suggested for every engineer to compulsorily view this tour.
Starting from Silicon ingot slicing to wafer dicing to final packaging and testing, all the steps can be clearly seen except for few pictures not zoomed enough for a close look.

It takes less than 15 minutes to watch this complete presentation provided you have a high-speed bandwidth. It's a combination of audio, video and pictures. This free tutorial kind of a presentation is what required for today's young design minds.

Click on this link below to start the tour.
http://www.necel.com/v_factory/en/index.html?src=hp2

If the link is moved check NEC home page http://www.necel.com