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I would love to know more about the inside history and origin story of ASML. Does anyone know of any good podcasts or blogs/interviews covering some of this?
by corford 3y ago
I would love to know more about the inside history and origin story of ASML. Does anyone know of any good podcasts or blogs/interviews covering some of this?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoCheck out Asianometry on Youtube
- corford 3y agoHoly shit. How have I not seen this chan before. Thanks!
- spditner 3y agoIt is covered in Chip War, by Chris Miller. The book also details the loss of leadership by Nikon and Canon.
- corford 3y agoThanks! Just ordered the book, hopefully will get it in time for the weekend
- tim333 3y ago'Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips' an 18 min CNBC piece is quite jolly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSVHp6CAyQ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSVHp6CAyQ8
- tim333 3y agoUpdate - I just watched it through and it's actually pretty interesting. A bit on the history, then how the tech works, then on the geopolitics of not supplying China with EUV and the like. Interviews the CEO and the Chip Wars guy. The tech's quite cool in the latest one with 13nm UV. It's absorbed by all known substances so has to operate in a vacuum and the light is produced by them squirting liquid tin at 4000 psi and then zapping the droplets with a 30 KW laser. The machine takes three fully loaded 747s to ship. I think this stuff may be a bit of a bottle neck with Sam Altman's proposal to invest $7tr in chip making - they are the only people making the state of the art machines and are pretty much flat out already.
- corford 3y agoWill watch. Thanks!
- insane_dreamer 3y agoThere's a recent article in MIT Technology Review about it (from the author of Chip Wars)
- corford 3y agoThanks! I think it's this one if anyone else is interested: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/23/1074321/chip-patterning-machines-shape-future/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/23/1074321/chip-pat...