The ASML Replacement Nobody Saw Coming

I still find it bizarre how they manage to make so many high end chips given how the slightest defect or contamination would wreck the process. Hundreds of millions of chips - the yield must be really high 👀

The smallest transistors now demand the biggest machines — chipmaking has drifted into particle physics.

When I became an ASIC Engineer in the late 1970s, we were on 5μm process technology. Today we’re at 2nm — that’s 2,500 times smaller. Absolutely unbelievable.

It is crazy to think we went from vacuum tubes to THIS in my lifetime. The next 10 years will make the last 100 look like the 2 millennium before that.

Using particle accelerators to generate light for lithography is fascinating.

Love the animation with explanations. Really professionally done 🎉

These engineers are waaay underpaid.

who ever could have imagined that lithography could be just so astounding and just so fascinating!

You are such a good communicator. Keep up the great videos!

When I was a little kid, I remember playing with my grandma's rotary phone. Few decades later, here we are. What a time to be alive

I have an interview at ASML on Tuesday 😊

Great episode! An earlier approach to FEL was to use Van de Graaff generators for the acceleration. Oxford University in the U.K had a proposal to covert a 10 million volt machine into an electron accelerator & then install wigler magnets to create photon beams. Sadly like many other UK science proposals it did not get funded. Interesting how diverse are the practical ideas for FEL across so many nations. & yet more interesting is that the current leaders considered FEL, but did not advance with it. Such a fascinating race where too little investment can have you beaten by a competitor who invests more, but investing & not getting a practical product quickly can also be fatal. Impossible to know who or what technology will win which makes watching your clear & exciting presentation that must have taken a long time to research & make so fascinating. Thank you for sharing!

Probably the most fascinating thing I have watched all month. Thank you for breaking it down for us laypeople.

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Your videos are absurdly valuable. Thanks for keeping us updated on chipmaking.

Need to rethink all this lithography-based semiconductor technology. Obviously, we haven't reached the Planck limit yet.

This is OLD technology. Stanford's free electron laser was decommissioned in the mid 1990's! The hard part here is the mask. 13 ev 6 ev or 1 ev knocks electrons off atoms. That has consequences for the integrity of your optics and mask.

I love your understanding and use of terminologies in this field. So interesting watching your videos on YouTube

Just great content brought with enthusiasm. Way to go!

There is also the Chinese TAU scaling approach Huawei, introduced the Tau Scaling Law. Instead of measuring performance by transistor geometry (Moore's Law), this law focuses on signal propagation delay; the speed at which signals travel through the entire computing stack