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Video: Inside the Most Advanced Machine Ever Built

Bart ·
Advanced Microchip Printer Technology

Every smartphone, laptop, car, and AI server relies on microchips built with tens of billions of transistors—each just a few dozen atoms wide. But how do we actually manufacture something so small at scale?

Meet the EUV Photolithography System, a $200M “microchip printer” that:

  • Use lasers more powerful than steel-cutting lasers to blast tin droplets 50,000 times per second into glowing plasma, generating the extreme ultraviolet light needed to carve nanoscopic details
  • Uses mirrors to navigate the light so precise they deviate by less than the width of an atom
  • Prints the design of a 100+ chips onto a silicon wafer in only 18 seconds
  • This is one of the most advanced machines humanity has ever engineered — and it’s the reason we can mass-produce the chips that power today’s technology.

Watch the full deep dive here:

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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