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0:00 The Machine That Saved Moore’s Law
3:12 How are microchips made?
9:11 What is extreme ultraviolet lithography?
15:04 Nuclear Fusion To The Rescue
21:59 How ASML Conquered The Chip World
35:35 Who are ASML’s biggest customers?
37:40 The Most Important Tech Company In The World
41:25 Inside ASML
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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.
We are also incredibly grateful to Vivek Bakshi, Andy Hawryluk, Marc Hijink, Asianometry & Claude Montcalm for their time and expertise.
If you want to learn more about ASML and how they developed EUV, check out Marc Hijnk’s book “Focus: The ASML way” –
Explore the Asianometry channel (including a wealth of EUV videos) here –
See Jayson Stewart’s article on the EUV light source and supernovas here –
The photo at 0:16 is used with the kind permission of Piotr Krzemiński – check out his channel @nanopirate
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Writers: Sulli Yost, Casper Mebius & Derek Muller
Producer and Director: Sulli Yost
Presenters: Derek Muller & Casper Mebius
Editor: Trenton Oliver
Additional Editors: Spencer Wright, James Stuart & Peter Nelson
Additional Writer: Vibhor Pandey
Animators: Andrew Neet, Emma Wright, Fabio Albertelli, & Mike Radjabov
Illustrators: Jakub Misiek, Maria Gusakovich, Veronika Pasynkova, Grace Nemanic, Isaac McRee, Nataly Zhuk & Hollisstudioo
Camera Operators: Sulli Yost, Richard van Rijn, Derek Muller & Casper Mebius
Researchers: Gabe Strong, Callum Cuttle & Aakash Singh Bagga
Thumbnail Designers: Ren Hurley, Ben Powell & Abdallah Rabah
Production Team: Josh Pitt, Matthew Cavanagh, Anna Milkovic & Katy Southwood
Executive Producers: Casper Mebius & Derek Muller
Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images, Storyblocks
Music from Epidemic Sound
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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
So weird. I was told that black people were the ones who invented all of this? So, they were lying to me?
🤨🧐😑🥹😅😂🤣😂
Soo… Will this kill someone if it was pointed at them?
Look I make talking rock
I understand zero percent of this
Please add the Arabic dub.
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اضيفوا الدبلجة العربية من فضلكم
Certified masterpiece.
Elon musk could afgord this machine 2.500 times
37:12 The mother of all Hail Mary’s literally 😂
A Pedra Filosofal.
You explained everything perfectly.
İsveç Kraliyet Bilimler Akademisi'nde düzenlenen basın toplantısında, 2026 Nobel Fizik Ödülü'nün sahibi açıklandı.
Halzen, Antarktika'daki IceCube Nötrino Gözlemevi'nin geliştirilmesi ve işletilmesindeki öncü rolü ile astrofiziksel kaynaklardan gelen, elektrik yükü bulunmayan ve maddeyle çok zayıf etkileşen parçacık olarak bilinen yüksek enerjili nötrinoların keşfine yaptığı katkılar dolayısıyla ödüle layık görüldü.
Antarktika'daki yaklaşık 1 kilometreküplük buz kütlesinin içine yerleştirilen algılayıcılardan oluşan IceCube Nötrino Gözlemevi, uzaydan Dünya'ya ulaşan nötrinoları tespit ediyor.
Thanks for the great content
Here’s my question; Are You Sure?
The replay button is getting tired.
Fallen Angel technology
I came for the title and stayed for the quality.
Switching to chiplets was more impactful than this. Stacking dies and chiplets, that's what saved silly "laws" created by silly capitalists.
There it is. The Rockwell Retro Encabulator.
This maybe the closest we can get to magic, if it isn’t already magic itself.
All you need is a spade to dig a hole to bury all the lazy tech that lazy people can imagine and construct. I can dig !
It’s crazy this machine is only 400 million dollars but a single Patriot missile defense system is 1 billion dollars.
I love being unreasonable
I always wanted to create a pnumatic computer
тот момент где они показывают как линзы фокусируют лазер на кремнии, я даже не думал что там настолько ювелирная оптика, это же по сути микроскоп наоборот
Many years of research without a promise that the technology will be delivered. Some companies tried this and said it's impossible. I also checked information about software written for the device. Must be extremely complex, even accounting for some vibration or gravity changes. I'm software developer and to be honest I would be scared to even change a single line.
I wonder if this tech could be adapted for internal confinement fusion? Maybe by dissolving deuterium and tritium in the tin?
Wow that machine is the size of a steam locomotiv
You explained everything perfectly.
Pronto terminara su monopolio y los chips serán mucho mas baratos ,,, Sorry
Compare the level at which these people function compared to the level of the people in the commercials.
All that technology and if my computer lags/slows down by a noticeable second, it sends my cave man brain into a furious rage!