How the World’s Most Advanced Computer Chips Are Actually Made
A chip smaller than your fingernail can contain 19 billion transistors. Making one requires exploding molten tin with lasers, mirrors smoother than almost anything ever manufactured, a machine worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and factories that took decades to perfect.
So how does all of that become the chip inside your phone?
In this episode, we follow the complete process behind the world’s most advanced computer chips:
• How light prints microscopic patterns onto silicon
• Why EUV light changed the semiconductor industry
• How ASML built one of humanity’s most complicated machines
• Why a single machine can cost around $380 million
• How Morris Chang created TSMC’s foundry model
• Why Taiwan manufactures most of the world’s advanced chips
• How this extraordinary system keeps Moore’s Law alive
The finished chip may be tiny. The industrial system behind it is anything but.
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