The $150 Million Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive
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Photo caption: Each machine is roughly the size of a bus. Shipping their components requires 40 freight containers, three cargo planes, and 20 trucks. Photo credit: ASML. Article by Will Knight. Wired – August 30, 2021.
ASML’s next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can keep shrinking for years to come.
Inside a large clean room in rural Connecticut, engineers have begun constructing a critical component for a machine that promises to keep the tech industry as we know it on track for at least another decade. […]