PickVidsBest Semiconductors & chip manufacturing Videos
The 47 Semiconductors & chip manufacturing videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 21 intermediate, 21 for a general viewer, and 4 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Asianometry, Branch Education, Jeri Ellsworth.
Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
A HOPE09 talk on how modern computer chips are manufactured, from 22nm transistors to ultra-clean fabs and the tricks used to pattern tiny features with light.
The Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source
Asianometry explains the EUV light source inside ASML's lithography machines, where lasers hit falling tin droplets twice to produce 13.5 nm light.
Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70
Lex Fridman interviews legendary chip architect Jim Keller about Moore's Law, microprocessor design, and first-principles thinking.
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead
Jim Keller gives a UC Berkeley EECS colloquium arguing that Moore's Law is not dead.
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
Veritasium tells the story of how Shuji Nakamura and others made the blue LED, long thought nearly impossible.
38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance
A 38C3 talk on how advanced chips are made, centered on EUV lithography and the global supply chain behind it.
The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
BobbyBroccoli's first of three parts on Jan Hendrik Schon, the Bell Labs postdoc whose fabricated organic semiconductor results nearly won a Nobel Prize.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton
James Hamilton's Tuesday Night Live keynote at AWS re:Invent 2016, touring AWS infrastructure at scale including networking, power and custom silicon.
How does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠
A 36-minute animated deep dive from Branch Education into how DRAM works.
"Z2" - Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips
Sam Zeloof shows the upgraded second iteration of his homemade silicon integrated circuit fabrication process, producing chips with around a thousand transistors in his garage.
The Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level
Seeker's Focal Point short documentary on ASML's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, which make the most advanced chips.
Building a 6800 CPU on an FPGA with nMigen (part 1)
The first part of Robert Baruch's series on building a 6800 CPU on an FPGA with nMigen, a Python-based hardware description language.
The $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System
Branch Education's animated deep dive into ASML's EUV photolithography machine and how it prints nanometer-scale transistors onto chips.
How a transistor works
Ben Eater gives a detailed look at how an NPN bipolar junction transistor works and what it does.
36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware
A 36C3 talk by Bunnie Huang arguing that open source is necessary but not sufficient for trustworthy hardware, because verifying hardware is destructive and so creates a time-of-check/time-of-use gap.
Defcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way
A DEF CON 21 talk by Adam Laurie and Zac Franken on decapping chips, covering how to remove chip packaging and image the die to read out contents such as ROM.
[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙♂️
Ian Cutress interviews chip architect Jim Keller about his time at AMD, Intel and elsewhere, management advice, design approach, Moore's Law and x86 versus Arm.
The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
Veritasium explains how ASML's EUV lithography machines make the most advanced computer chips, covering the engineering of the light source, mirrors and the supply chain around them.
27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)
Michael Steil's 27c3 talk on reverse engineering the MOS 6502 from die shots into a transistor-level simulation, as in the Visual6502 project.
Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips
CNBC gets a tour of ASML's cleanrooms in the Netherlands to see how its roughly $200 million EUV lithography machines are built.
Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang
A 2007 Computer History Museum conversation in which Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang interviews TSMC founder Morris Chang.
Etching small patterns in Glass
Huygens Optics experiments with etching tiny patterns in glass, covering hydrofluoric acid risks, buffered oxide etch, photoresist and chromium masks, and laser-induced etching.
Birth of The Transistor: A video history of Japan's electronic industry. (Part 1)
First part of a four-part video history of Japan's electronics industry, covering the birth of the transistor and the rise of Japanese semiconductors.
Homebrew NMOS Transistor Step by Step - So Easy Even Jeri Can Do It
Jeri Ellsworth shows step by step how to make an NMOS transistor at home using a kiln, rust remover, spin-on dopant, eBay wafers and vinyl stickers.