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.
Homemade Transistor Demonstration
Jeri Ellsworth demonstrates a PMOS transistor she fabricated herself in a home chip lab.
Stanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape
A Stanford EE380 seminar by Michael P.
Why Russia Can’t Replace TSMC
Asianometry explains why Russia cannot replace TSMC after sanctions halted chip shipments.
Where The Real Chip Shortage Is
Asianometry explains that the worst of the 2021-22 chip shortage sits in trailing-edge semiconductors, not the leading-edge chips usually covered.
Sophie Wilson - The Future of Microprocessors
Sophie Wilson, designer of the ARM instruction set, discusses the future of microprocessors, including the economics of scaling below 28nm and why much of a chip must stay powered off.
Reading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits
Ken Shirriff walks through how to reverse engineer integrated circuits from die photos, using famous chips as examples, in a Hackaday SuperConference talk.
How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany
Asianometry examines how East Germany tried and failed to build a native semiconductor industry despite heavy investment, including the espionage involved in acquiring Western microelectronics technology.
China's 7nm Chips: SMIC N+2
Asianometry's short analysis of SMIC's N+2 node, China's 7nm leap forward.
How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps
Branch Education walks through a semiconductor fab and the dozens of steps used to turn silicon wafers into microchips, with 3D animation.
India's Semiconductor Failure
Asianometry explains why India, a chip design powerhouse, cannot fabricate chips, tracing the 1980s government attempt to build a national semiconductor champion and how it collapsed.
Unveiling High NA EUV | ASML
ASML's short promotional fly-through of its High NA EUV lithography platform, the TWINSCAN EXE, which supports 8-nanometer resolution.
14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is - Visiting Tescan Part 3/3
Der8auer visits Tescan and uses an electron microscope to compare real transistor sizes on Intel 14nm and AMD 7nm chips.
[FOSSi Dial-Up] Tim Ansell - Skywater PDK: Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process
Tim Ansell presents the SkyWater PDK, a fully open source manufacturable process development kit for a 130nm process, as the first FOSSi Dial-Up talk.
Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks: Super tiny tax form
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science uses an antique 4x5 view camera to make high-resolution photolithography masks in a home shop.
How Japan Learned Semiconductors
Asianometry traces the 30-year rise and peak of Japan's semiconductor industry from the 1950s to the 1980s, covering how a postwar country gained competence in an emerging technology.
Moore's Law is Not Dead (Jim Keller) | AI Podcast Clips
A clip from Lex Fridman's podcast in which chip architect Jim Keller argues that Moore's Law is not dead and that transistor scaling still has lots of room.
Change w/ Jim Keller
Jim Keller, CTO of Tenstorrent, gives a keynote at Stanford's System X conference on change, understanding and the future of computing.
Experiences Building Edge TPU with Chisel
A Google talk from the Chisel community in which engineers recount designing the Edge TPU with the Chisel hardware construction language.
Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)
Steve Mould shows that LEDs and solar panels are both diodes made from semiconductors, so a solar panel can emit light and an LED can generate electricity.
Dr. Chris Mack Toasts the End of Moore's Law at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014
A brief toast by lithography expert Chris Mack at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014, humorously declaring the end of Moore's Law.
Building AI Silicon
Jim Keller, CTO of Tenstorrent, talks at Samsung Foundry's SAFE 2021 about building AI silicon through modular, provable design.
Making Microchips at Home - Cooking with Jeri Part1
Jeri Ellsworth shows early steps of making microchips at home: cleaving wafers, removing native oxide, testing dopant type with a hot probe, and loading the furnace.
Speedrunning 30yrs of lithography technology
Breaking Taps tries to build semiconductor fabrication capability at home, working through decades of lithography history while chasing one-micrometer features.