Industrial · Corporate (etch / deposition leader) · Fremont, CA
Lam Research
| Vacuum (at rest) | Process chambers vented/idle; load-locks at high vacuum |
|---|---|
| Vacuum (operation) | Vacuum plasma etch, deposition (incl. ALD), wafer cleaning |
| Power | RF plasma sources; tool-dependent |
| Voltage | Plasma bias / RF; high-voltage per tool |
| Product | Wafer-fab equipment — #1 in etch, #2 in deposition (ALTUS ALD, Aether patterning) |
| Application | Memory (NAND/DRAM), HBM, advanced packaging, leading-edge logic |
| Customer | TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Micron |
Why it matters
Plasma + vacuum at industrial scale, in the East Bay next to Pacific Fusion. Etch and deposition are vacuum-native; nearly every advanced chip passes through a Lam process — same Fremont commute, very different culture from a national lab.