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>I'm not exaggerating when I say that designing a new technology node for mass production is like a moon program. It's insane. I had a friend tell me about wha
by Freire_Herval 3y ago
>I'm not exaggerating when I say that designing a new technology node for mass production is like a moon program.
It's insane. I had a friend tell me about what goes on in these asml machines. Essentially the targeting system that moves the wafer around cannot have any vibration so I kid you not the platform is floating and controlled by magnets. And this is just the etching machine.
- prewett 3y agoThe etching process that uses a laser to blast a moving molten tin sphere to shape it so the next laser blast that vaporizes it produces parallel EUV light is pretty insane, too. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge2RcvDlgw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge2RcvDlgw
- nwellinghoff 3y agoVery cool video. Worth a watch
- Spooky23 3y agoI worked on a campus where they were building prototype manufacturing processes with these tools. The building those tools were housed in had a foundation that was iirc 30’ of a specialized concrete mix. I was chatting with some of the construction engineers over coffee and the consensus was that 10,000 years from now, some archeologists would be pondering wtf this giant concrete platform was for.