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How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

Branch Education · 11.9M views · 2024-05-17 · 27:48

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Overview

Branch Education walks through a semiconductor fab and the dozens of steps used to turn silicon wafers into microchips, with 3D animation. It covers lithography, deposition and etching at a high level.

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Pointed to as a clear visual reference for chip manufacturing steps.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2024–2025

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Semiconductors & chip manufacturingComputer architecture & CPUs
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itopaloglu83 · 2025-11 · Recommendation

Just to add to this, the Branch Education YouTube channel has great videos detailing the manufacturing process as well, here's one for starters: [VIDEO]

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throwaway31131 · 2025-06 · Recommendation

In the description they say a video on lithography is on the way. In the mean time maybe this one from the same channel: [VIDEO] Great channel

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Kye · 2025-11 · Reference

A video showing those steps, for the curious: [VIDEO] It's probably not 100% identical to TSMC's process.

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