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Listen to a fascinating podcast about the future of chip manufacture at https://www.merckgroup.com/en/future-...

Thanks to Merck for sponsoring this video as part of their #alwayscurious initiative!


Chapters

00:00 Introduction
01:20 How microchips are made
04:13 Moore’s law
06:51 We gonna need a smaller light!
08:26 How to make extreme ultraviolet
11:07 What can we do now?!
14:34 Chips that build themselves


Sources and further reading

Recent article from The Register about the past and future of Moore’s law https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/0...
Laser World piece about the infrared lasers that kick off EUV production in these machines https://www.laserfocusworld.com/blogs...
High-speed camera photos of tin droplets in an EUV machine https://bits-chips.nl/artikel/boxing-...
Fascinating article going into a bit more detail on why chip speed isn’t increasing, and the failure of ‘Dennard scaling’ which was just a bit too much detail to include in the video! https://www.maketecheasier.com/why-cp...
And an even nerdier retrospective on Dennard scaling https://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/C...
While making this video I got a bit obsessed with ‘die shots’ of CPUs. These by Fritzchens Fritz on Flickr are beautiful (and I used his image of the AMD Epyc Rome in the video! Thanks for making them public domain :)) https://www.flickr.com/photos/1305612...
I also really enjoyed this, from the other end of the CPU timeline, examining Intel’s 8008 processor from 1971, where a pretty standard microscope is good enough to see all the components! https://www.righto.com/2016/12/die-ph...


Credits

EUV lithography machine animations copyright ASML
Chip manufacture images copyright Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
EXTREME!!! ultraviolet heavy metal by Muzaproduction https://pixabay.com/users/muzaproduct...
Thanks to Tran Nguyen for her help with this video


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