> Almost everything is crazier than you think. This is a very good rule of thumb about modern leading edge fab technology. Imagine the craziest, most impractic

> Almost everything is crazier than you think. This is a very good rule of thumb about modern leading edge fab technology. Imagine the craziest, most impractical, most expensive things you can come up with for methods to manufacture things. The actual processes used are crazier than that. For a reference point, just look up how the light source for the EUV steppers work. [0] tl;dr: They are melting tin, dripping the molten tin in droplets of carefully controlled size, shooting those droplets into a vacuum chamber at 70m/s, and then hitting them simultaneously with so many lasers that they are instantly ionized and then emit radiation of the desired wavelength. And they are using this Rube Goldberg-esque contraption as a glorified light bulb. Everything is like that. [0]: https://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_29/march_2018/features/euv_light_sources_for_next-gen_lithography/ https://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_29/march_2018/f...