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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #229 Chip Manufacturing and the World’s Most Complex Machine
Description: Ever since the first computer chip was created the size of transistors on chips has been getting smaller and smaller. Gordon Moore, who went on to co-found Intel, predicted the doubling of number of transistors on a chip would double every two years, over the last 60 years this has been true but only thanks to some incredible technological breakthroughs.
In 2018 the most advanced chip making machine was made available for mass production by Dutch company ASML. The machine uses EUV (extreme ultraviolet light) to etch transistors just 1 nanometre wide. Many companies within the semiconductor industry have spent...