The Branch Education Youtube channel takes a look at the technology deployed by ASML to manufacture state-of-the-art components.
After a detailed look at the CPU ( Central Processing Unit), the component at the heart of our computers, we followed up with explanations of the GPU ( Graphics Processing Unit). Each time, the creators of the Branch Education Youtube channel took charge of the explanations, with videos that were neither too long nor too short, but above all full of analogies to help us understand things properly.
Today, we're going in a different direction, and while we're still talking about mastering the operation of a cutting-edge tool, we're not talking about semiconductors. Well, not directly. Indeed, the nearly 40-minute video we're now relaying focuses on how these cutting-edge semiconductors are manufactured. How are the most powerful CPUs or GPUs produced? What techniques are used, and what machines are used?
If the designers of AMD, Intel or NVIDIA would be nothing without the production plants of Intel Foundry or TSMC, the latter two couldn't do much without the impressive EUV photolithography machines developed by ASML. The Dutch brand is clearly not as well known as the aforementioned companies, but it is a key link in the chain and, after watching this video, you'll know (almost) everything about the machines it sells around the world.
