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Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips

CNBC · 4.3M views · 2022-03-23 · 18:40

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CNBC gets a tour of ASML's cleanrooms in the Netherlands to see how its roughly $200 million EUV lithography machines are built. It covers exploding molten tin, ultra-flat optics and why only one company can make these systems.

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Frequently recommended as a good, approachable overview of ASML and semiconductor equipment.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2022–2024

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tux1968 · 2022-04 · Strong recommendation

The entire video is pretty fascinating, but this direct link to the timestamp where they explain how the EUV 13nm wavelength light is created, is particularly incredible: [VIDEO]

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tim333 · 2024-02 · Recommendation

'Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips' an 18 min CNBC piece is quite jolly [VIDEO]

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photochemsyn · 2022-08 · Recommendation

> "The most important decision was shifting to extreme ultraviolet lithography at a time when Intel thought it was much too expensive and difficult to implement; TSMC, backed by Apple’s commitment to buy the best chips it could make, committed to EUV in 2014, and delivered the first EUV-derived chips in 2019 for the iPhone. Those EUV machines are made by one company — ASML. They’re worth more than Intel too (and Intel is a customer)." CNBC toured ASML clean rooms in a very interesting video. IIRC, the only thing keeping ASML from exporting these machines to China is some EU/USA export control rule: [VIDEO]

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