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    Indistinguishable From Magic

    Curated by HackerTube · 11 videos · 6 hr 43 min

    A guided trip down the chip stack. It starts with what a transistor is and with hobbyists who make them at home, goes through the modern fab and EUV lithography, and ends with the industry and the argument over whether Moore's Law is finished. The centerpiece is the HOPE talk HN has called the best introduction to chipmaking for more than ten years.

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      11:23

      How a transistor works

      Ben Eater · 847K views · 11 years ago

      Ben Eater's eleven-minute NPN explainer comes first because HN treats it as the starting point that leads on to logic gates and CPUs.

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      8:05

      Homebrew NMOS Transistor Step by Step - So Easy Even Jeri Can Do It

      Jeri Ellsworth · 184K views · 16 years ago

      Jeri Ellsworth makes an NMOS transistor with a kiln, rust remover and eBay wafers, which shows each fab step at kitchen scale before the industrial version.

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      5:46

      "Z2" - Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips

      Sam Zeloof · 2.5M views · 5 years ago

      Five minutes on Sam Zeloof's garage fab making chips with around a thousand transistors; HN cites it as the proof that hobby chipmaking is real.

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      27:48

      How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

      Branch Education · 12M views · 2 years ago

      Branch Education's animated tour of deposition, lithography and etching gives you a map of the real fab before the long talk.

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      1:01:20

      Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

      Andor Gafotas · 210K views · 14 years ago

      The centerpiece, with 19 HN recommenders: a HOPE talk that treats 22nm chipmaking as physics hacking, and the one HN keeps wishing someone would update.

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      17:20

      The Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source

      Asianometry · 698K views · 4 years ago

      Asianometry zooms in on the hardest part, where lasers hit falling tin droplets twice to make 13.5nm light, and it is the link HN reaches for whenever ASML comes up.

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      55:00

      The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology

      Veritasium · 65M views · 10 months ago

      Veritasium's 55-minute look at the whole EUV machine, from mirrors to supply chain, which one HN commenter said turned deep magic into something understandable.

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      14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is - Visiting Tescan Part 3/3

      der8auer · 296K views · 6 years ago

      A short reality check: der8auer puts Intel 14nm and AMD 7nm under an electron microscope and shows that node names are marketing labels.

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      1:31:41

      Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang

      Computer History Museum · 159K views · 18 years ago

      After the machines come the people: TSMC's founder explains how he invented the pure-play foundry model, interviewed in 2007 by the Nvidia CEO who became his biggest customer.

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      38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance

      media.ccc.de · 11K views · 1 year ago

      A 38C3 talk that pulls the technical story into geopolitics, about why EUV and its supply chain now matter to governments.

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      Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead

      UC Berkeley EECS · 77K views · 7 years ago

      The closer is the talk HN cites in every Moore's Law argument, where Keller lays out the overlapping curves he thinks keep scaling going.