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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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Science Guy1 year ago

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.

RandyT1 year ago

Source:

The Gal1 year ago

Yep, I used to work for them.

JC1 year ago

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

Loop1 year ago

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

Catalina Castro1 year ago

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

JETLAB-X1 year ago

Wow 😳👍🏽

Kole1 year ago

Wow

Alberto Yépiz1 year ago

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

ULTRA1 year ago

What

mewc1 year ago

Mindblowing

Rajesh M1 year ago

Truly amazing

Basic1 year ago

nuts

Fleur Grove1 year ago

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

kushyphus1 year ago

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

Clausius1 year ago

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

Cornelis van der Bent1 year ago

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

deathmage.x .edge🦭1 year ago

wild to think this powers AI

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