Chapter 1
Shrinking down to the atomic scale
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Chapter 2
The global machine that builds them
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Chapter 3
Powering the next generation of tech
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Chapter 4
Beyond the silicon wall
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Inside the 2-nanometer microchip
Ch 2 · The global machine that builds them
play_review ASML High-NA EUV Machine
Laser strikes the tin, / plasma starts to glow, / nanometer flow.
play_review Samsung pioneered the gate-all-around architecture and competes globally to manufacture next-generation 2-nanometer processors.
play_review Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, produces the vast majority of the world's most advanced microchips.
BETA
play_review Stack microscopic transistors to learn how 2-nanometer microchips power our massive world.
Fun Fact
EUV mirrors: The mirrors inside ASML's lithography machines are so flat that if expanded to the size of Germany, the tallest bump would be one millimeter.
Glossary
lithography (noun)
A printing process using a flat surface, or a microfabrication method for patterning semiconductor wafers. Dutch manufacturer ASML exclusively builds the extreme ultraviolet lithography systems required for two-nanometer chip production.
A printing process using a flat surface, or a microfabrication method for patterning semiconductor wafers. Dutch manufacturer ASML exclusively builds the extreme ultraviolet lithography systems required for two-nanometer chip production.
Quiz
What level of chemical purity is required for materials used in 2-nanometer chip fabrication?
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Which Dutch company is the sole manufacturer of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines?
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What molten metal is blasted with lasers to create the light used in EUV lithography?
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Which company produces the vast majority of the world's most advanced microchips in Taiwan?
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Which country's specialized chemical firms are primary suppliers of ultra-pure silicon ingots and photoresists?
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Which South Korean electronics giant pioneered the commercial GAA architecture?