This shit is like black fucking magic, how come there only one company doing this shit?!?!
>>107721911>This shit is like black fucking magicno it's not>how come there only one company doing this shit?!?!science hard, as simple as.there are millions of similar situations where one team in one company is the only one in the world that can do something specific you just don't know about it.also there are multiple companies in china or japan that are very close behind them
europoor technology is alien tech, dont let anyone make you believe otherwise. they are the choosen ones
>>107721911When the CIA ran out of communism to erase, they pivoted towards ensuring American corporate interests remain protected.This includes making sure the Chinese don't take over the world by manufacturing the one thing they don't yet have complete control over, high-end microchips. Much like preventing communism, it isn't all about making sure America is winning but rather ensuring its enemies are losing which is why an European company is allowed to be such a significant player in the market.
>>107722016>>107721938back to work golems, i need your tax money for mossad.
>>107721911I have two patents with them :)>>107721938EUV's mechanism is poorly understood It may as well be magic at this point
>>107721911>very expensive single low volume market>need years and billions of $ and the top researchers on the planet to make a competitive oneit takes an absolute fuckload of upfront investment to make a top-tier photolithography machine and you the one company that has cornered the market has>a headstart>legacy>institutional know-how>trust from the 5-10 companies worldwide that are interested in the productit's a non-starter commercially. the only reason anyone would invest to compete is if they're a government trying to diversify supply chains
>>107722162Don't forget that there is literally ZERO tool time available to researchers so nobody can develop the photoresists they need for the process to even be viable in the first place
Pretty much every big electronics company around during the second half of the 20th century was/is involved in semiconductor research and development. But we only really hear about their consumer goods.
>>107721911Other big companies like Canon and Nikon are in it as well though not as big. Components for these also come from all over like lenses from Zeiss and others. Fun fact, the stones and lenses are often a matched pair and if one or the other is damaged it's very hard to replace.
>>107721911Veritasium just uploaded an unironically great video about that and among other things it basically answers your question - because they were the only company that took the enormous risk to keep pursuing a technology development that looked as plausible as sustained nuclear fusion. ASML would also have to give up if they hadn't managed to make some crucial late developments to make their machine profitable.
>>107721911Chinks are doing it as well and it only took them a year from zero to working prototype.So whatever that company is doing doesn't seem very hard.People say that ASML is based on trivial patents and patent trolling.So it only took sanctions against China, which made it unreasonable for Chinks to adhere to Western bullshit patents, and they had it on no time.
>>107722708well, then your youtuber is lying, because Zeiss developed this techbology. ASML is downstream of Zeiss.
First they worshipped TSMC.Then they found out that Taipei is a slum and TSMC just the cheapest labor available - they were litterly worshipping third worlders in sweat shops.Then they worshipped ASML.But they found out that Chinks built their own machines within less then a year of it becomming beneficial for them to do so.Then they worshipped Zeiss.Next they are going to find out that Zeiss is a petent troll company.Then its over and there is nowhere to go anymore. So they will do the typical mulatto cope of: "we actually have alien tech, we just didnt reveal it yet"
>>107722724Zeiss manufactured best mirrors known to man for this thing, but the rest of the process includes shooting lasers at individual tin droplets 50k times per second to get the correct type of light which was entirely up to ASMC's engineers. There's a bunch of other stuff involving manipulating that light, cleaning and resurfacing the mirrors by injecting various gases in the chamber, so the idea that ASMC is just a patent troll does not hold water.>>107722765What puzzles me is what TSMC actually adds to the mix and why couldn't Samsung buy the same ASMC machines and be as good as TSMC is.
>>107721911before the invention of the modern business administration degree, people used to do things because it was cool even if not profitable.
ok so i'm supposed to believe the sudden increase in talk about this one company and muh small transistors all over the internet is organic?
>>107722868this
>>107722868It has always been talked about, especially during Biden era sanctions. You just haven't been paying attention.
I'm halfway through the video and I'm having an existential crisis.
>>107723002oh so it's just a coincidence that a lot of youtubers suddenly made videos about it, on the same dayok bro
>>107721911>This shit is like black fucking magic, how come there only one company doing this shit?!?!
>>107721911optics are literally matters of national security, you cannot form a company or researching this stuff without being blacksited.
>>107722868Holy shit now that you mention it... I think the hyper-shilling of AI has generally got more people asking questions like "why are GPUs and memory getting so expensive?" which leads to non-engineers asking questions like "what are computers, really?" then you end up watching a youtube video about the history of the semiconductor and the algorithm decides to introduce you into silicon doping and photolithography(All topics which they don't ever mention once in public school even though it has been hyper relevant since before we were all born. Seriously, I can't count the number of times I've heard someone say Moore's Law but I don't think I've ever heard the word photolithography come out of someone's mouth). I think it's because boomers are going all-in and telling everyone they won't survive unless they learn AI. Now your 60 year old coworkers and teachers are now blatantly sharing documents filled with those emojis copilot always uses (teachers literally ask AI to design their syllabus and lectures now)
Was graphene a meme? 20 years ago, THAT was promoted as being black fucking magic
>>107721945It is amazing how good we are at technology yet how fucking atrociously bad we are at making money using that technology.Meanwhile Americans make billions promising technologies that don't yet exist and know that won't exist for many years like 90% of what elon promises Tesla and Space X will do if we just give him 2 more weeks bro.On the other side you have the chinks who just take thibgs that already exist and take over the market by scaling production at a lower cost.We truly are too good for this fake and gay world.
>>107721911>how come there only one company doing this shitit has something to do with the laser mask. because of diffraction, a mask has to be made so that light converges to each point its supposed to, this requires massive computation to calculate. then the mask itself just looks like white noise. obviously the tolerances such as flatness of the wafer and distances all have to be on the atomic level as well.
