Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "The ASML First Half 2021 Mega-Review" video.

  1. "The chip hipsters" is the phrase of the week. Thanks for the chuckle! :D
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  2. At the even deeper level of it there are a chain of small specialized companies who each make insanely pure chemicals in insanely precise concentrations that are each critical to some-or-other specific step in the never ending latter of complexity that must be ascended to reach high end chip making. Manufacturing more transistors than there are people in the world in an area the size of a pinky nail is truly the definition of "ungodly hard".
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  3.  @Mr-hn2bp  I'm perfectly well aware. But that's immersion mask EUV lithography and not impression lithography. The distinction is huge. That's why I'm questioning it. "Rubber stamping" chips at 3µm sounds plausible. That would be wildly cost effective and could dominate the market for a ton of support chips in pretty much anything that has electronics involved. But trying to impression stamp a chip that today requires 10-15 lithographic layers, most of which are done with EUV, does not exactly sound plausible. Heck, the precision of the stamp itself would be EUV class... And getting a transfer with zero defects/warp/creep sounds even wilder..
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  4. Most likely Xilinx (now owned by AMD) or Altera (now owned by Intel). FPGA chips are the "poison of choice" in many process control applications because of their flexibility compared to ISA based processors.
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  5. Are you sure that's not 5µm and 3µm you're talking about when talking impression lithography?
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