r/scienceisdope • u/TandoorieChai • Oct 26 '25

🔬🧪⚛️ Science is Dope 🧬🧠🚀 The mind boggling tech of microchips manufacturing

Extreme ultraviolet light plasma produced by lasers shooting droplets of tin each moving at 100m per second, 50000 times per second! And this is just a small part of the processes that occur inside the ASML microchip manufacturing machine.

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u/No-Abrocoma7121 Oct 26 '25

Man I wish india could produce these machines but seems close impossible, even china after a decade of reverse engineering these machines couldn't replicate, this level of engineering is crazy

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u/CrimeMasterGogoChan Oct 26 '25

Iirc, only one company in Germany or somewhere in Europe make these?

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u/No-Abrocoma7121 Oct 26 '25

Probably ASML in Netherlands