The Entire World Relies on a Machine Made by ONE Company
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At 3:57 is not the Chinese flag
@@charliewinterss it is
@@worldmapping4895 Its not the flag of the real china ;)
@@napoleon848 communist china won the civil war so keep crying
we still wish it was that size, kingdom of the netherlands.
In ASMLs video about their new machine, one of the engineers said the lenses by Carl Zeiss used in the machine are so flat, that if the lens were scaled up to the size of the USA, the largest bump would be the size of a dust particle. That's just insane
That just blew my mind
Not insane, at all.
Wow....the Dutch are flat.
I wonder if they use air bearing fly cutters
@@vangcruz4442 That's funny!
I grew up in Eindhoven and studied at the technical university. Everyone knows ASML here. One of my physics professors once said that the speed of progress in the world gets set here in Veldhoven by ASML, since they set the benchmark for the fastest chips.
I study there now. We have guest lectures from ASML, part time professors from ASML, there is even a template contract when doing work with ASML because internships and graduation projects are so common.
This is not entire true. If somebody use light and not electron to do stuff, it will be faster then what they produce right now. So they are making the fastest electron chips, but not the fastest.
kanker kaaskop
@@seb4sti4n666 except that isnt the case here, so they do make the fastest chips
@@mpownage4806 What about photonic chips then?
I believe a short history lesson is called for here. ASML bought out a company called Silicon Valley Group (SVG), which had previously purchased the Microlithography division from Perkin-Elmer who had originally developed the technology in Wilton Connecticut, USA. How do I know this? I worked for SVG for 11 years, and my father worked for all 3 corporations for 46 years, and was one of the research and development engineers who made it all happen. In fact, my father was one of the physicists who cracked the deep UV problem in the 90's while working for SVG in Wilton, CT. The manufacturing facilities are continuing to operate in Wilton Connecticut, USA where most of the R&D still occurs.
Very cool
Your father can make billions working for china
In The Netherlands, ASML is often mentioned in the news, always described as a ‘chip maker’. So I thought it was a small sort of Intel, making chips for some niche markets. This video completely changes that perspective. I wouldn’t call them a ‘chip maker’ at all! They’re the company making the machines that make chips, something different entirely! It’s like calling JCB a building company…
Who is JCB?
@@justayoutuber1906 lol
You could say that they are more of a ""chip maker" maker."
@@justayoutuber1906 JCB is a company that makes (among other things) construction equipment, like the cranes and shovels you need on a building site. So they're not a building company but a company that makes equipment for building companies to do their building 🙂
@@kasimirdenhertog3516 mate honest you just found out ASML is one of our best grossing companies 😂. No stress tho, i also only know for a year. But damn mate, you're right about JCB. But the same goes for Manitou, Lindt or still.
Wow I didn’t know ASML was that big, I live in the Netherlands, and I am a CNC lathe worker for a local company. I make some simple pieces for ASML not thinking it was that big of a company. Sick!!
Yea i know right, I am a sheet RSV worker for a metalworking company in Bergeijk. We make some of the more conplecated parts for their prototypes
Did you know WIFI and Bluetooth are also Dutch inventions!?
@@Joey-ct8bm yess I do haha
@@Joey-ct8bm I thought Bluetooth was a Swedish invention. Apparently, it was developed in part by a dutch person for Ericsson (company) in Lund, Sweden.
@@Joey-ct8bm Bluetooth is swedish.
Started working on EUV stuff back around 2014, 9 years later I'm involved in it's vacuum control system design. Been an interesting ride so far, and the changes never stop as fine tuning in the processes get worked out requiring different controls, valves, gases, volume, evacuation, abatement, etc.... most fun job I've ever had,
fun fact: The EUV lasers, that are employed inside the lithography machines of ASML are made by a german company called TRUMPF. It is the only company world wide that can build these lasers.
Please note: ASML advanced EUV lithography uses mirrors instead of lenses, as EUV light cannot pass any lense material. For the slightly less advanced technology, DUV, lenses are used.
Man, thanks for the info. It's astounding how most people are just lazy and pass on their misconceptions to others, when all the info is readily available on Google.
You have been watching 'asianometry' haven't you?
@@markhonea2461 I checked the channel, found out about how Zeiss and ASML worked together on the EUV mirrors.
Just released a video on Zeiss's mirrors kzhead.info/sun/dKyfgbCiq36Al5E/bejne.html
kanker kaaskop
Great, now make a video about Zeiss lenses that ASML uses in their lithography machines. Fun fact both Zeiss and philips helped in building ASML as a company.
Haha, but ASML and Zeiss are one family 😂 Those Zeiss mirrors are crazily big ! #3FM Project🤣
good point Gagan I said in one of my e-mails that without American chip design ASML would not exist why is the media always bias and never really tells the truth
Someone watches asianometry here, or at least you should watch his channel if you're interested in the chipmaking process. He has a great video on zeiss and their mirrors. He also goes in much greater depth on EUV and other technologies in the process.
@@dreckman69 yep i've subscribed to it and watched most of the documentaries but i still think we need a few more videos on Zeiss. Content related to it is pretty much scarce.
Fun fact: ASML don't even own the software to run that.
I do not remember when a story fascinated me like this one. To be the only one in the world manufacturing something, and to not get copied, is really unbelievable.
Like most things that "can't be copied", you can be sure the chinese are working on it.
@@RetroJack they are trying for decades now. They've tried to make an exact copy of the ones they have, but it didn't work. And the chinees are experts in copying stuff ;-)
Yeah and just about the only other thing that they can't copy is Rolls Royce / GE's jet engines.
There's some slight barriers to entry. It's not like copying legos
@@RetroJack, you can be sure russian already making cpus
For an explanation of how the photolithography works, basically: 1. 300mm wafer is put on a chuck, it is held down by suction. 2. a photosensitive chemical is laid down. The thickness is determined by pour rate and rpm of spinning wafer which distributes and sheds any excess. 3. quick bake of photosensitive chemical. 4. loaded into photolithog machine. The ones I used were Nikons. But I remember having ASMLs next door. A UV light is generated using mercury arc lamps, the image is shrunk a different amount, (2x, 4, 5x) using a lens. The image is serially burned into the wafer, called step and repeat. This is why you see the same pattern on the wafer. 5. Once done the wafer has its images developed. I remember using HMDS hexamethadisilazane (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bis(trimethylsilyl)amine). Then I believe it is baked again. 6. then off to CMP(cold metal polish), where they grind off the excess to expose either the circuit wires or the spaces those wires will go. There were many layers to the chips, each one requiring the blue print of the circuit to be photolithogged on. the circuit layers had a M prefix, like M1, M2 etc, interconnecting(so perpendicular to the chip surface would be called V1, V2 etc (for via, road in latin), then there were random names for the n-wells and p-wells. 20 years ago or so I worked at an IBM 200mm line in Vermont. Since then it has been bought by the middle eastern fab company called Global Semiconductor. I still remember enough to explain it apparently but forgot enough to not remember the trauma of working 12 hour shifts lol. PS Nikon was a competitor
that is the theory. In Practice to do it is a completely different story. My PhD Thesis in antiferromagnetic domains studied by PEEM using synchrotron light was based on one sample. I have produced 70. But all but one were completely useless. I new the exact conditions how it was produced. Or did I? that is the difference between theoretically knowing how to do something and actually doing it. Working on a production line does not make you an expert in the technology.
@@slawomirczekaj6667 "In theory there is no difference between practice and theory, in practice there is"
HMDS then photoresist. HMDS is an adhesion promoter that prevents the resit from lifting. 12 hour shifts..Yea 7pm- 7 am making 386,486,K5-K6 w/3Dnow in the 90s @ AMD
Middle eastern fab isn’t exactly a fair way to describe GloFo…. They used to be AMD and are currently a public company. Yes they were owned by a sovereign wealth fund for a few years but they are certainly a US headquartered company and now are a US owned company
worked at varian semiconductor - but built gas based lasers vs the photolithography mentioned here.
My radio when I was a kid had tubes so when I read these comments they are Latin to me but I am blown away by the progress that has been made in just my 86 years. My hat is off to the scientific community and let’s pray that all these accomplishments go toward the good of mankind 🙏
You haven't been paying attention.
bro really said pray lol
I’m 53, John, a GenX’er. I see what was, what is and what’s coming. I’m afraid life has become so complicated, no one has the time to appreciate the venerable vacuum tube or any other tech the young people today take for granted. Good for you commenting on videos at 86!! 👍🏼
@@glasstuna You can only “pay attention” to things that ACTUALLY EXIST. The year I saw first jpeg from web, John was 55 years old, if my math is correct.
@@FilosophicalPharmer Being GenX is like standing with your feet planted in two alien worlds.
I work at a company that makes a part of the machine and its realy cool to see what kind of stuff they do with it
I saw an ASML Air Frieght Crate slipping off the Elevator while unloading at the airport. Luckily they are shipped in 5 Crates (each machine doesn't all come in one part) and there wasn't much physical damage but there was a €90 million cost and 6 month delay just to readjust the accuracy tolerance parameters of the lasers. Crazy.
That is an "Oh, sht!" moment.
there are a tons of "how it's made" videos, but it's not very common to find video about who made the machine factory uses, this is good one. Wish there are more.
Thanks for doing a video on this. I’ve heard about the Dutch company but this was very informative. Great video.
Great video Cindy - nice work. Hope to see more from you in future.
ASML’s San Diego teams & subsidiaries (Cymer) help lead their lithography program. Very proud as a San Diegan to contribute to this incredible story out of the Netherlands.
Arent the pulse sources made there?
CYMER is 100% ASML, the USA has nothing to do with this.
And the heart of ASML lithography machine is lenses from Carl Zeiss
IMO, it’s actually the EUV laser because the design of such was incredibly difficult due to the possibility of liquid tin explosions fowling optics.
@@12time12 isn't laser would require lenses?
@@gurbanguliberdimuhamedov4228 yes, but there are lense manufacturers in Japan and the US who can develop similar lenses. That doesn’t take away from the incredible Zeiss lenses. The laser was easily the most difficult part of EUV, there is very little room for error. I encourage you to watch the Asianometry video about EUV, he gives a quick explainer. If you want more in-depth discussion then Google scholar has the best work.
The EUV systems dont use lenses, becaus most of the euv light would be absorbed that way. Instead they use hightech mirrors
@@12time12 , incorrect, you don't know what you're talking about. There aren't anyone that's able to build perfect on an atomic scale mirrors like Zeiss does. These mirrors are grown in labs for half a year, and if something goes wrong you lose basically twice as much money while growing it, it's a risky business so no one attempted it other than Zeiss thanks to their partnership with ASML. Edit: apparently the person I answered deleted the comment in question. Originally, the comment I answered was something in the lines "Anyway, there are countries like Japan that can manufacture such mirrors".
It's more concerning that just 1 location has the ability to produce such a vital piece of equipment.
Better a friendly peaceful nation in Western Europe than a country like China, Russia or the US to have this though.
But I am happy it's not a country or government who uses it as a politics tool
Soon to be China too from the sounds of it.
@@oybekolimov2458thats what the us is aiming for. Making it a political weapon
This documentary content is so beautiful, I could barely hold my tears back. A BIG THANK YOU.
If Netherland ever stop selling their most advanced machine to Canada, we will stop selling them maple syrup. 🦫🇨🇦
love you, won't stop selling. not gimme ma syrup.
I don't think I've ever seen Canadian maple syrup in a Dutch supermarkt sorry
@@thommyneter168 than look better cause we do have maple cyrup
A fucking leaf
Hahahahahaha
A friend of mine works there. He had a PhD in physics. There is A LOT of high tech companies around Eindhoven in the Netherlands, and it's not a coincidence that the Eindhoven University of Technology exists.
Brainport. If anything we should appreciate as dutchies is the way this country provides incredibly efficient and advanced hubs.
Interesting, it is the Belgium research facility called IMEC that has pushed ASML to the company it is today and their partnership since 1991. ASML builds the machines but the knowledge and tools are done by IMEC.
1:37 You just gave us Belgium and half of western Germany 😁 Thank you
Total face palm moment on our part! My bad.
@@Newsthink 😁
Rightful Dutch land.
@@jingex7816 🤣
I work in the Photo (Photolithography Dept) at Texas Instruments. Our fab is full of ASML machines. DUV’s are our fastest tools, where I-Line tools are slower (typically an older-style, thicker wafers, but still important to the supply chain.)
TI Baguio or TI pampanga?
that's rad
What's DUV mean? (I guess UV = ultraviolet?)
@@rosiefay7283 Deep UV. It's mentioned and somewhat explained at 2:00.
Litho is just one process in semiconductor manufacturing. There are many other process example Etch , thin films ETC.
Ha! My life is not ruled by microchips. Yes I do miss my wifi when its occasionally down but it doesn't affect my basic survival. my electricity source would be troubled but I have a wood burning stove that can be used for small scale cooking. I am lucky to live in rural southern europe so would even have access to locally produced vegetables in local small shops. I do keep dried beans and lentils in the cupboard. I already make my own bread. But I am old so grew up before the days of fridges in the home. Before tv. And have shelves full of books that need reading and re reading. Life would revert to that of my childhood but I would miss the radio. That reminds me. I need to plant some tomato seeds and sort my patio planters to make room for some veg.
Beautiful video. Your voice, pace, content…perfect. Keep up the great work.
The fastest chips in the world are from Croky. A Dutch chips brand. They come in different flavours, personally I prefer 'Paprika' the most. They are so fast that once I open the bag it's empty in a minute or two. Now, that's fast!
What factory does the “paprika” come from?
@@DriftWizard750 It's called 'Earth'.
🤣👍
Ik ga helemaal stuk van je opmerking Croky chips!..hoe verzin je het 😂
@@andrealexandre2422 Dat weet ik eigenlijk ook niet, maar ik vond't wel geinig klinken in deze setting. 🤣👍
This was the most seamless transition to a Brilliant AD I've seen so far
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you.
My deepest respect for all those engineers, designers, technicians and others who were there from the beginning constructing this marvel.
I lived near ASML for many years and I never knew it produced something so important. They don’t talk much about it on the Netherlands.
ASML in the semiconductor industry is probably the equivalent of KUKA in the automotive industry Everyone knows about Intel and AMD and TSMC and Porsche and Mercedes and BMW. But how many have ever heard about ASML and KUKA?...
Yeah, I feel the same about Mycronic. It was just a building located wierdly between the highway and the towns only outside pool.
I've been working on a subsystem of the ASML NXE systems since 2012 and it's fun to see it going from something nobodies ever heard of to being much more widely known, in the news and recognized as the technological tour-de-force that it is.
kanker kaaskop
Nou gaan ons braai
Almost every chips made with 7 or 3 nanometer technology are use for cellphone, tablet or high end graphics (better known as gaming). Most of the automotive and general appliance use typically 28 nanometer technology because it's much cheaper and especially because it's much more robust in a variety of harsh environment. The Russian and Chinese military and space industry also use widely the 28 nanometer chips or bigger, in combination with special hardening technologies against electronic warfare and cosmic radiation.
There is a big move towards using mass produce civilian technology in military applications.
@@DavidKnowles0 it's just a matter of cost. Mass-produced civilian stuff is so much cheaper than custom-made military stuff.
The main reason the US doesn’t want China to get the most up to date chips is they want to stay ahead on the AI front.
@@mynameismatt2010, it's more the US want to prevent China from being the leader in AI.
@@mynameismatt2010 china doesnt need silicon chips to be good at a.i. think again.
I study mechanical engineering pretty close too where ASML is located basically all of our courses have some sort of ASML reference. Our study association is sponsored by them. We learn their much more expensive and less widely used version of CAD software(which I must admit is pretty good). It’s incredible how much influence they have
Groetjes uit eindhoven
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@@molrat Eric doe rustag
@@thomvanhoof480 zo kan ik echt niet met je werken eric
Great story I loved you glossed over every aspect of it. Amazing
lol...tell us then please
@@mochapella U have google.
This is the reason why helping companies High Value Technology Industries is essential to the growth of a country
It was about three years ago when I saw a video about ASML and it's Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography technology and when I found out there isn't a single entity in the universe that has this technology I immediately realized the gravity of the situation. I also told my friends who invest to check this company out, because they will be the most important and underappreciated company in this space by far for a long time. I remember the video I saw about them was aptly named "the most important company you have never heard of"
I randomly found out asml. Working in 3th world county pushed my to check job offers. Wanted thing that i saw was incredibly then i dig. Now we are here my dude. This mfs can singlehandedly cause war.
I can't imagine how you know this technology doesn't exist *anywhere* else in the universe...
@@eliharman haha
@@eliharman If you get a super powerful microscope and read the fine print it says: "...universe as known by humans at the time of writing."
@@eliharman The presumption was made that we are the only semi-advanced species in the universe ;D But it also sounded cooler than "the world"
An Absolutely Amazing and informative video! Well done!
Wonderful example of ingenuity in action !!!
I was so confused at what was happening at 1:38. The zoom on Netherland makes it looks like they invaded Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Germany all at the same time.
Yea right? I was like what the f. Is this...
Apologies we made an error; it wasn’t to scale
@@Newsthink It's also the wrong way, because the islands are now on land?
The map is a few years ahead of its time. BEWARE, EUROPE, WE ARE COMING
@@Newsthink Why USA is banning European country for selling its products on the free markets and why you are so proud of it?
Hi from the Netherlands. People know us for our weed, red light district, cheese and bicycles. We also invented the microscope, WiFi, birth control pills for woman, DVDs, the stock market, perfected water management, are leaders in greenhouse harvesting and we're sorry for VOC times. We're the best English speaking non-english country in Europe, our people are one of the tallest and we know it. Does it make us a little arrogant? Sure, but we earned that right. Did I mention our smart infrastructure and incredible roads? Oh well. We're awesome.
I have a lot of respect to Dutch as a nation/race/society. U people have done and achieved much more than what others even imagine though it has some negative outcomes.
You forgot modest.😊
Absolutely fascinating information, thank you.
That laser-on-tin flashing is really straight from Will E. Coyote 🤯 Amazing.
I used to work for FedEx in Veldhoven and you wouldn't believe how many man sized packages they ship out daily. its insane!
kanker kaaskop
@@just1it1moko neeuuuu ik ben een domme kutbelg
ASML just got thrown into the spotlight after the chip crunch. I remember reading about their EUV machines which were used at TSMC's fabs and then suddenly they are on the news and everything. Also should've added Carl Zeiss and imec to the list.
And the Chinese stealing the technology in 2018. }:(
Trumpf as well. The entire hardware for EUV was basically developed by Trumpf and Zeiss, both in Germany. Asml puts everything together and sells the machine. Trumpf also developed the controlling software.
Now you know why China wants to take over Taiwan so badly
@@TheCarmacon VDL ETG in the Netherlands is also a big part of of building the ASML machines. I know because I work there.
You're right Zeiss is integral to the whole process so just dedicated a video to them: kzhead.info/sun/dKyfgbCiq36Al5E/bejne.html
I always wanted to know how costly is a clean room like forever… is so cool..
50k/sec,how anything can happen that many times in one second,cant imagine.
I work at a company that supplies ASML with electric cabinets that serve as controllers for those EUV machines. Each EUV machine uses 1-2 of our cabinets. We make 7 a week. So only in the past year ASML's production line increased by about 300 new EUV machines. This is an outstanding pace of growth.
Surely they buying for the future production, just in case. That will explain why they order that much cabinets.
And I work at a company that supplies companies that make electric cabinets with special pallets to ship them to ASML :) (and many more parts). It sometimes seems the whole region is the supply chain to ASML... that should also be mentioned. Among them are other high tech industries on which ASML depends for their parts - like VDL and Prodrive. Those are also the key to success.
@@permanenceinchange2326 Hi tech need really that much, and mostly in high quality.
@@permanenceinchange2326 nah, not the region but the whole country. I worked in Z-Holland at a company that also supplies ASML and I was sometimes in touch with our suppliers also in Overijssel, N-Holland and elsewhere.
@@tiemen9095 nah, not the whole country, but a huge part of the world. I work in California and ASML has a huge stamp here as well.
so interesting, good job
I live close to asml and seeing how much they are growing true the years is amazing
Reminds me of the news article how the ASML accidently found a way to create the molybdenum-99 isotope used to treat some forms of cancer.
ASML is the world' s most important company Source: ASML bro 😎
@Tin Watchman Most of us are below sea level, what do you mean? lol
@Tin Watchman No worries we got measures so that we do not fall short to the ocean😎
As someone studying Mechanical Engineering in Eindhoven (basically where ASML is), every single day I hear about it but do notice outside the Netherlands (and even within) it’s not that known. Glad to see it recognise as the absolute beast of a company that it is!
For now. In the future, it will be dwarfed by other companies
@@user-pd9ju5dk5s LOLLLLLLL
@@domingosvarelamarreiros7490 Very narrowsighted to think you can forever have a monopoly on an industry 💀
@@user-pd9ju5dk5s They do though haha.
@@domingosvarelamarreiros7490 Who tf is they?
They have an ASML facility here in the US in Connecticut. Drive past it sometimes. Further down the road is the main US Breitling watch repair facility.
My dad works there and i think he worked on 1:22 this part of the machine that is a shutter to the light
so i never knew asml was that big, cycled past it many times and always thought it was just like some small dutch computer company
Refrigerators, cars, air conditioners all worked just fine before micro-chips ever came into existence.
What, you mean refrigerator that can't even run skyrim? Pathetic!
@Trevor Phillips chips are not making your refrigerator more efficient, its only make it spy on you, and spying cost electrical energy.
They didn’t, that’s why the micro chips are important.
@@henryh95 Both did and didn't. Refrigerators did perfectly fine and were no less efficient. All the efficiency comes from how well insulated it is. No microchip management needed. Cars on the other hand...
What's different is, when the old machines broke, you could fix them. Now we throw them away and buy another one. 51% of Americans buy a new smartphone every year. Lots of money changing hands.
I have actually made quite some parts for this machine. Never got to see what it was used for though.
I work in a separated company of the company Carl Zeiss in Jena and I'm proud to say that we're the only ones that can make the metrology that's built into THIS lithography machine. This sayed, ASML can only build their machines because of our products. :)
You must be proud.
@@bartobruintjes7056 everything connects on the world somehow. even we cant build this sensors without other companys. if you do work, you should be always proud of what you did :)
The world isn’t coming to a end without the smallest process. We can get along just fine with larger nm wafers
This is what people dont understand.
@@TehBananaBread Intel 2023 keynote " So for next year we are going back to 14nm+++++++++++++
I love how the world’s most powerful chip manufacturing machine is built by scientists who use Lenovo ThinkPad 2:39. It’s a laptop that transcends humanity. Edit: Time stamp
Lenovo is the old IBM bought by Lenovo the Chinese are incapable to invent they buy other companies or copy
I work here and only good thing about that laptop is the nipple so I can use it whilst in the cleanroom instead of the touchpad.
I'm guessing those Lenovo's have 5nm chips in them since it's ASML.
louis rossmann aproves this message.
If you look on your lab top it will say Intel chip made by an America company
what is more impressive about ASML is that their stronghold in EUV lithography is not because of a patent advantage. It's because it's DAMN hard to build a machine like that. They know how to do business.
Even before I clicked the video I KNEW it had to be ASML. It’s crazy how reliant we are on their tech.
Absolutely crazy if you ask me, at least on the long run: largest supplier of photolithography systems; and the whole EUV photolithography show run by one and only one company in the whole world, what could ever go wrong!...
Yup it was obvious
Wifi , bluetooth, telescopes , radio , aaah so more The netherlands make it happen. And we fight against the northern sea the same time.
I should get back into the semiconductor capital industry. For few years, I was a technical writer and illustrator creating and editing work instructions to build DUV (Deep Ultraviolet Light) lithography machines for Cymer, a division of ASML. I made a lot of hay with that experience and worked for the Intel Ocotillo factory in south Chandler.
This is the most important Dutch company, and located 10 miles from where I live. Its a massive giant in the chip industry.
Half a mile from where I work. During my studies I had an interview there, which took a pleasant left turn. It started out with logistics (my field of study at that time) and ended with encouraging words about how to set goals and go for it.
I had no idea this Dutch company was so important. Very interesting 🧐👍🏻
Thanks!, Nicely done.
As a dutch person, i am proud of this video.
Fun fact: Part of ASML's earlier success came from (allegedly) violating Nikon patents (Nikon was the previous leader in high end lithography equipment). Nikon ultimately settled several lawsuits for what now seems like a small amount, but they do effectively get royalties from some of ASML's activities.
But Nikon's dead
@@keithframe3489 Uh, no, they are not.
Straight to the point. Awesome!
very interesting vid, thankyou!
1:39 ASML machines are for sure more accurate than your map of the Netherlands 😄
True, a silly error on our part
What's Germany, Luxembourg, France, and Belgium gonna do? WE MAKE THE ONE MACHINE.
@@Newsthink thanks for your answer ❤
I'm quite fascinated by small countries that are powerful. Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Uruguay etc...
The Netherlands has the only farmers consistently more efficient than American ones. They're amazing.
Japan. ASML basically relies on research from the transatlantic plus Japan.
@@toomanymarys7355 Are the Dutch government treats them terribly lately
Israel
Its because they are small that they are allowed to be rich.
Great idea to give these secrets away
Temporarily currently perhaps. Not for much longer.
The entire process can't happen without many insanely specialized building blocks. This is only one piece of the puzzle
This is the whole puzzle without missing a part.
@@bartobruintjes7056 yup - just ordered one and start pumping out chips. look at all the country's doing it. ( sarcasm)
I’ve seen one of those machines. Inside, there are 6 midgets and 4 workstations. Two usually die off during the guarantee period.
@0:55 the hairs on the back of my neck just stood up!
ASML can't work without the world's precisest Mirrors from Zeiss in Germany
I didn't know they were Dutch, but the second I saw the title I knew it could only be a fab machine.
It’s made by ASML but to be accurate, it’s really the product of transatlantic and Japanese semiconductor industry that develops the technology for the lithography machine. Asianometry has a great series of videos on ASML and EUV lithography explaining the intricacies of the parties involved.
Can't recommend Asianometry enough if you wanna go deeper in these topics
Asianometry is bias media, I don't recommended
@@taknaknak4957 why it's bias?
@@bagasaria7483 The media is focused on surface information, and tend to asian
False. The first lithography techniques were developed in the USA. Japan miniaturized chip PCBs into microchips, but the most advanced lithography techniques are developed inhouse in ASML's labs. Furthermore the founder of the first lithography machines, Philips, droped what was linked to that business long ago since they were a multirole company, from home appliances to medical machines, and what's important is what came after, which no one is able to copy even after a decade - the EUV machines every silicon foundries use to make the chip in your phone. Next step will be X-Ray lithography and this will imply using even harder to work with materials and ingenuity in building X-Ray "mirrors".
Totally impressed.
I just to live across FICO Tooling in Herwen. Many workers and also customers visited our diner ‘t Hoekje😅. Nice to see how it went on, the factory in Herwen is gone.
Interesting too see both administrations effects on chinese and foreign lithography
ASML has more clean room facilities to assemble EUV steppers than mentioned here. 7 in total I believe. In the US, EU and Asia. Main plant is in the Netherlands. Their biggest in Asia is in Taiwan. Saw mention on their web site of Japan and South Korea. I think their US plant is in or around New York state. Not sure where remaining plants 2 of are located. Either further plants in EU or possibly US.
can confirm it's in CT. I work there.
Good, Informative 👍👍👍👍👍
This is a win only in the short term. As we've seen with Russia, and this is China we're talking about - a far advanced country mind you, the more you pressure them, the more energy and money they'll pour into innovation, or even stealing foreign tech. If successful, they'll just be independent from the west in like a decade, and you can't use this card again... should a situation requiring sanctions or anything of that sort arise. I literally do not understand why you'd block someone from buying your products they themselves cannot produce.
ASML is amazing, but it took hundreds of published papers from researchers around the world to develop the 13.5nm lasers modern lithography uses. It's absolutely astounding the technology actually works. Probably just two steps less complex than getting nuclear fusion to work. 😳
man nuclear fusion is easy.
Nuclear fusion is easy, just look up in the sky. During the day you'll only see 1 reactor, but at night you'll see 10,000!
@@wally7856 LOL unless you live in the city. :-P Then you'll see like twelve. Even if we get enough solar deployments to supply all our energy, I still hope researchers solve fusion one day.
@@fss1704 Or shaping a molten tin droplet suspended in midair, using the width of a laser pulse, before gravity can affect, it is jaw-droppingly difficult. That's just step 1 of how this laser works. Definitely look up a video on how EUV lasers work if you're interested in that kind of stuff. :-)
@@wally7856 The Sun's core has roughly the power density of compost, we need something a little different for practical fusion generation
The photolithography machines manufactured by ASML are used in the production of computer chips. In these machines, patterns are optically imaged onto a silicon wafer that is covered with a film of light-sensitive material (photoresist). This procedure is repeated dozens of times on a single wafer. The photoresist is then further processed to create the actual electronic circuits on the silicon. The optical imaging that ASML's machines deal with is used in the fabrication of nearly all integrated circuits, and as of 2010, ASML has 67 percent of the worldwide sales of lithography machines,[3] with the competition consisting of Ultratech, Canon and Nikon.
When you copy/paste, it’s good practice to quote the source. In this case, you just took the text from Wikipedia on the ASML Holding.
as a person from the netherlands, even I didn't know this lol
One of the biggest employers in my area. They are a real nice company to work.
It would be great if AMSL could adapt this machine to actually make cake. Everyone would be much happier.
And continuing the 'ONE company' series, next is Carl Zeiss
You got it! Just released a video on Zeiss kzhead.info/sun/dKyfgbCiq36Al5E/bejne.html
Thanks for sharing valuable information
There was once a lithography machine manufacturer more advanced for EUV than ASML. The first commercial EUV micro-stepper was built just outside of Oxford, in the UK. ASML allegedly wanted too much money to develop it, and were concentrating their research on 193nm immersion technology, (which we also delivered to customers first) so the company I worked for was contracted to develop a 13nm micro-stepper for substantially less, which we did. Sadly, the budgetary constraints of the follow on project (an actinic EUV mask inspection tool) effectively killed the company, and a paper in the teens said this set back the EUV lithography industry for a decade, all because our customers weren't prepared to put in the investment needed to follow the project through to completion. That was years of my life, and that of my colleagues, wasted.
You got paid though right???
We got paid for the work we'd done, and got paid statutory redundancy, but that wasn't much of a consolation without a job. Our customer contracted another company to finish off the project, who then hired all of the team, except me. They were more interested in the hardware than the software, and my software was mostly waiting on the hardware anyway. Since I wasn't there, I don't know the full details of what happened in the years after, but my understanding is that the customer invested the same amount of money again, but the project was still cancelled due to budget overruns before it was completed. If they'd paid us what we originally told them it would cost, rather than trying to cut costs, the project would have been much more likely to succeed, and the once world leading company would still be probably still be making those machine today, having had a decades head start on ASML.
also of note is Austrian IMS producing the most advanced mask writers (no lithography without masks) the only company with high throughput electron beam litography for producing masks for 5nm processes and below
The plot thickens :)
The Dutch have always had a way with potatoes: they make the best chips.
There once was a time when only one nation had a monopoly on making gunpowder. What happened?