The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World’s Most Important Machine

This video dives into the insanely precise world of chipmaking, showing how ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines kept Moore’s Law alive. You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at how microchips are fabricated, from nuclear-fusion-powered EUV light sources to nanometer-scale alignment, plus the years of R&D that went into building these modern marvels.

Along the way, Derek Muller and guests unpack how ASML beat out rivals to become the planet’s most critical tech company, who their biggest customers are (hint: think TSMC, Intel, Samsung), and why these gargantuan machines are the unsung heroes powering everything from smartphones to supercomputers.

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