The World's Most Important Machine
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The insane machines that make the most advanced computer chips. Sponsored by Brilliant - To learn for free for a full 30 days, go to https://brilliant.org/veritasium and get started. Plus, our viewers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription for unlimited daily access to all Brilliant courses.
Special thanks to Piotr Krzemiński for letting us use his Scanning Electron Microscopy photos in this video. Check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@nanopirate
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0:00 The Machine That Saved Moore’s Law
3:12 How are microchips made?
But, sooner or later, the unreasonable man is leading Humanity to extinction so, we need a man that works between the two.
9:11 What is extreme ultraviolet lithography?
15:04 Nuclear Fusion To The Rescue
Keep them coming
21:59 How ASML Conquered The Chip World
35:35 Who are ASML’s biggest customers?
POV: local man, despite being convinced he's absolutely clueless about everything, somehow realizes he's even dumber than he initially thought
37:40 The Most Important Tech Company In The World
41:25 Inside ASML
In the near future this will become like Roman concrete
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A big thank you to Marc Assinck, Jos Benschop, Jan van Schoot, and Jayson Stewart and the rest of the team at ASML.
36:27 sounds like forbidden knowledge from Fallen Angels. He has to admit it, but makes a joke out of it.
We are also incredibly grateful to Vivek Bakshi, Andy Hawryluk, Marc Hijink, Asianometry & Claude Montcalm for their time and expertise.
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one of the best and most informative video on lithography, also asml is a national treasure for Netherlands
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Wunderschöner Video Danke schön 📚📖🧠🧠🧠🦾🦾🦾🏥📊📈📉🌹🌿🎉🎉🎉
The photo at 0:16 is used with the kind permission of Piotr Krzemiński - check out his channel @nanopirate
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Second best to Willie Wonkers everlasting gobstopper machine.
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Writers: Sulli Yost, Casper Mebius & Derek Muller
Unglaublich der Intelligenz-Gradient von ASML zu unserer hypertrophen Regiereung. Ein beeindruckendes Video. Vielen Dank!
Producer and Director: Sulli Yost
Presenters: Derek Muller & Casper Mebius
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Editor: Trenton Oliver
Additional Editors: Spencer Wright, James Stuart & Peter Nelson
Mirrors smoother then a twinks bottom
Additional Writer: Vibhor Pandey
Animators: Andrew Neet, Emma Wright, Fabio Albertelli, & Mike Radjabov
20 seconds in "cities, and at the very bottom, transistors".
Nope. Please try to learn something.
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Camera Operators: Sulli Yost, Richard van Rijn, Derek Muller & Casper Mebius
u want me to do WHAT??!?
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Thumbnail Designers: Ren Hurley, Ben Powell & Abdallah Rabah
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Complex if you don't understand the technology.
If you knew what that huge machine was designed for and that there is better technology to do the same thing, you could probably make a better machine at half the cost and size.
That one company that makes this machine that makes the Photo Lithography at 1 Nano dimensions using extremely short wavelength light. The shorter the wavelength the tighter the image on the chip. The chip is coated with light sensitive layer and then the Stencil, or whatever they call it, is used to harden the layer where the light hits it. Then they use really nasty chemicals to wash the unhardened areas off the chip and then they can deposit material or implant atoms, etc but only where there is no photo resist layer. Then they use even nastier chemicals to remove the photo resist layer and they do this a zillion times. I think the singer Bjork developed this technology.
It needs a certain super high frequency short wave light. They say they shoot super fast lasers at nano drops of Tin? exciting the electrons and then the atoms give off the required wave length of light. Is there an easier way. Probably. And cheaper also.
That huge machine hasn't been optimized and some of the sections date back to the original design. There are easier ways to excite atoms of Tin instead of zapping nano drops with a super fast laser. Shhhhh! That's Top Secret Science.
New technology is available to reduce the size and also reduce the price considerably.
But as you know, the whole computer industry is owned and controlled by the KKK CIA Telepathic UFO Spooks so it's funded by infinite Funny money___
One word: IBM International Business Machine. The computer industry and the Information Stupid Highway and AI Machine Learning Robots. The End game is no Humans on Earth. Only UFO Aliens and Robots.
More User Perspectives
"can i go in there and compromise this project? Can I stand on this and possibly destroy something?" OMG - I wouldn't let this guy back into any sensitive machinery area LOL!
@AmericanPeople-k3uYour videos leave goosebumps about the power of the individual. There's nothing more powerful than the individual, the identity, the honour!
@monabey8855I salute President Moore for passing Moore's law.
And punishing people fail to uphold it.
But for what?
@ComradeDtI thought that was a hit of LSD... I wonder if one day u can put a chip like that one or tongue and have similar results.... I hope in my life we either get full immersive VR... Of biotech that connects to our brains giving us HUD as well as communication ability's
@lenbones7940Time stamp 17:25 Great Story!
@monaco647Time stamp 16:51 😆
@monaco647Now. Make it make sense that we went from barely having a good running gasoline engine to THIS. Tell me we haven't communicated with extra terrestrial beings.
@TheRealKirkHammettAfter watching this video, i learned enough to make my own at home with a few basic household supplies
@BeanFlicker420Incredible!!!
@skylerjohnson1827This video cured my boredom.
@TravisHiress-n8rYou're kidding me. Are you trying to fix a problem at all costs, even though you simply need to change the direction of flow from vertical to horizontal and fill a negative mold? Why so complicated
@Ruhrgebieterin14:32: 4000 what?
@AmmitzbollJeppeThat s an easy thumbs up.
@JosephKT-u2oWho's here after Joe rogan's podcast?
@JatinSikri-b7pAliens made the pyramids BTW
@Mars_the_Pepega& then Nvidia Decided to Kill Moore's Law
@dhgodzilla14:18 i think there is a mistake in your explanation and animation, as the photoresist removal is done after the etching process is complete right? otherwise you dont get a printed circuit on the wafer right?
@MINEWISEhttps://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0?t=2769 The amount of editing they had to do here to get a simple statement out of this guy is highly suspicious.
@DarienCaldwellisnt this a high tech combustion machine?
@BlazinRiver1The blonde Guy is so annoying
@vincentc-g9pSome mekanism, maybe even an oritech
@gordofredo_topIm a wastewater operator for intel and I see these asml boxes outside(waiting to be installed in the fab) all the time. I had no idea what kind of tools they were as I just treat all the waste water outside the fab.
I knew Intel had recently purchased a $400 million dollar tool and now im happy to learn what it is and what it does.
The world's smartest vending machine. 😮😅
@jonathanparks778Also love to see in the comments that intelligent people are inherently friendly, funny and positive. Love for Veritasium and ASML.
@willemgeboersYou need an IQ of at least 130 to be a janitor in that place.
@MitternachtAngelA small beef with your thumbnails. Because this machine does exist, why say it shouldn't exist? Anything that actually exists can exist and does exist. It's all about taming physics.
My biggest beef with some creator's videos is they often claim that science cannot explain this or that. Science often can and often does.
Here because of Joe Rogan’s podcast. Pretty damn interesting stuff.
@TurtleSushiiExceeded my expectations. Subscribed for more content like this!
@anusateesh2510