"The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine"

[goblin]

Title is in quotes, because it's not my title - it's the title of a recent video on Youtube.

Publishing direct link to videos being an inexact science, I strongly recommend everyone interested in science fiction at work (AKA "Things that shouldn't work but do") to find it and watch it. It's amazingly well made.

Disclaimer: I am partial to the company discussed (which I won't name because I'm nasty like that and will let you find out in the video ). While the footage is all from the mothership in the Netherlands, it has solid US presence (two factories), one of them is in my tiny village, and people close to me work there.

I have always been subjugated by what they do, and how they make it work, and I am proud that we in the US contribute to this adventure. If you are reading this on a phone made after 2018, chances are its chip was printed on one of their machines. No, it's not about TSMC. It's about the machines that TSMC uses.

Enjoy the watch. It's worth it.

 

[ctechbob]

You're talking about Veritasium's video, yes? That's not just some clickbait title. It pretty much hits the nail on the head.

That thing is almost unbelievably complex and it is a small miracle it works at all.

Shooting a melted stream of tin micro balls with lasers to produce Deep UV light. Yes, you read that right, and yep, it is as complicated as it sounds.

 

[goblin]

Indeed. That one. And don't miss the part on the mirror movement control and the level of precision needed. It's easy to miss.

 

[fantastic]

Precision tool for sure.

 

[ctechbob]

Indeed. That one. And don't miss the part on the mirror movement control and the level of precision needed. It's easy to miss.

Ohh, I didn't. I was just naming one of the totally ridiculous feats of engineering needed to pull it off. The whole thing is a testament to those engineers.

That it works at all is a feat. That they developed it as 'quick' as they did....that's on another plane.