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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” – https://focus-dewereldvanasml.nl/

Explore the Asianometry channel (including a wealth of EUV videos) here – / @asianometry

See Jayson Stewart’s article on the EUV light source and supernovas here – https://spectrum.ieee.org/euv-light-s…

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References: https://ve42.co/ASMLRefs

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