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You need to look at the amount of moving parts in the factory, not in the product.
by Joeri 11y ago
You need to look at the amount of moving parts in the factory, not in the product.
- teekert 11y agoExactly, I just went to a talk by someone from ASML, a modern processor may go through 700 sequential steps of (UV) illumination, "sanding" (to moleclar flatness) and adding a new layer of lithographic material. It's insane and there are hardly any working specimens in the first batches.
- andrepd 11y ago>there are hardly any working specimens in the first batches Why is that?
- mozumder 11y agoWay too many atoms in the wrong places. Building a transistor on a chip is like making a building by bombarding meteors from space and hoping the craters form the shapes you want. Building a chip is like making a city with that process.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI think the post was was asking why the first batches are special in that regard (atoms in the wrong places) as opposed to the (presumably successful) later batches.
- rasz_pl 11y agoprocess tuning
- sliverstorm 11y agoIt's ultraviolet voodoo, and every successive generation is tackling new problems of minuteness that have never been dealt with before. When was the last time your first program in a language you've never used before compiled & ran on the first try?
- MaysonL 11y agoBack in 1963, and it was my first dozen programs, one a week for 12 weeks. The 13th week, I wrote my first assembly language program, and it had a comma where it should have had a period (or was it the other way around?:-) ). I never did get that program working, because that was the week NASA sent up a new weather satellite, and there was no more computer time to waste on high school students and their trivial programs.