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The mind-blowing tech behind microchip manufacturing. Lasers fire 50,000 times per second at tin droplets moving 100 m/s, creating extreme ultraviolet light plasma — and that’s just one step inside ASML’s chip-making machine.

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Each ASML extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine contains over 100,000 individual parts, costs around $400 million, and is the most complex device ever built by humans even more intricate than a space shuttle. The mirrors inside (made by Zeiss in Germany) are so smooth that if they were the size of the United States, the tallest bump would be only 1 millimeter high. And that tin-droplet laser trick? It produces light with a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers so short that ordinary glass would absorb it, meaning the entire system must operate in a vacuum with atomic precision alignment. Every microchip in your phone, computer, or AI server ultimately owes its existence to these laser-fired droplets of molten tin.

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Source:

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Yep, I used to work for them.

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I’m convinced this is alien technology. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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ASML’s EUV machines use lasers firing 50,000× per second at tin droplets to create plasma that etches nanometer scale circuits each chip involves billions of precise operations, showing just how extreme semiconductor manufacturing really is

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The level of precision here is astounding. Also... a single point of failure.

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Wow 😳👍🏽

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Wow

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How they can create 3nm o less with UV light 13nm ? Or there are new lasers from 2nm? @grok

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What

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Mindblowing

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Truly amazing

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nuts

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ASML, c’est du futur en barre ! Si seulement on pouvait lâcher les sudoku administratifs en France et passer aux lasers 😅🤖.

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@elonmusk from first principles should this be this complicated? @grok

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@grok Curious who actually came up with the design of EUV machine?

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Watch this great documentary if you want to know how ASML works.

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wild to think this powers AI

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