Comments by "Science in Engineering" (@matsv201) on "American Reacts to How The World Relies on 1 Company in THIS Country.." video.

  1. They blown it up 2x and just overlapped it ontly belgium and gemrmany
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  2. I think the video is a bit misleading. While ASML is the only manufacture of EUV-lithography. EUV is not as common as they make it sound. Its only the very latest processors that use EUV, and those still quite rare. Its really just 5nm and newer that uses EUV. All 6 and 7nm don´t use it. For the previews generation there are multiple manufactures. And even if ASML would be wiped of the face of there earth with every machine they ever made, the impact would be fairly limited Its worth saying that ASML have speend 16 year developed EUV, and it was suppose to take like 5 years. It proved quite a bit harder than it suppose to. That is actually one of the reason why electronics performance increase have slown down the the last decade. Now when EUV is online we will probobly see a fairly good performance increase the next 3-5 years Some chip like Flash may use 100+ layers, but a typical CPU uses 20-25 layers. And most modern CPU use only 2-5 layers of EUV. So typically the EUV will be used for the most critical layers, and a older machine will be used for the other. How its nummberd is a bit misleading as well. Everything from 22nm-7nm uses DUV, and everything from 5-2nm use EUV. So while 5nm is just one generation a head of 7nm. With the EUV you can go all the way to 2nm. Typically 3 or 4 nodes (and 3 or 4 half node) is made on the same lithography.. Now 5, 4 and 3 is in the works for EUV, and 2nm is incoming. 1.5nm is theorized and will be incoming soon. Note, there are dussins of those machines, but there is only one company that know how to make them
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