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  • drgs1

    EUV stepper which makes 5nm processors


    • I don't get how the projection goes from the third bounce to the fourth?
      I also don't get why it gets bounced around different-sized mirrors.
      Nairn
    • Not going to beat myself up about it too much though - it's not like I'm in any way positioned to have anything remotely resembling a modicum of expertiseNairn
    • I have no idea. There exist different chipmakers -- Intel, Samsung, AMD -- but they are all using these machines from ASML, which has around 80% market sharedrgs
    • Most important equipment of our civilizationdrgs
    • As a kid I wanted to build under-earth stations when. As an adult I want to work at ASML
      https://i.imgur.com/…
      drgs
    • Aye, it's kind of fucking cool that all the shit-hot chip-making that exists in the world is essentially reliant on a Dutch company.
      Miners and Spades and all..
      Nairn
    • Also - tell me more about your 'Under Earth Stations'! I made a hard-promise to friends that I was going to make an under-beach fortress when I was 7.Nairn
    • Obviously I never did.

      I think to date it's the only actually-meant promise I've ever broken.
      Nairn
    • I wanted to live under the ground, made sketches and stuff. I don't anymoredrgs
    • haha, I wouldn't mind a hobbit home built into a small mound - or at least a grass roof.
      I sketched a laser-based tunnel 'borer'.
      Kids are weird creatures.
      Nairn

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