How Microchips Are Made - Manufacturing of a Semiconductor

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How are microchips made - from sand to semiconductor: Microelectronics usually is hidden to society – however, it is a constant companion in our daily lives. It tremendously contributes to the ongoing development and digitization of our world. But what is actually behind this technology?

Read more about microchip manufacturing and the importance of wafers or semiconductor chips here:
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[spencerwarren]

Glad to see someone sponsored this channel! I finally learned how the manufacturing processes fit together to make a chip!

[bubblehead]

Great to find your channel, courtesy of EEVBlog. Subscribed.

[movaxh]

That is a really good video, better than many others. To people interested, in modern high end chips, there is about 500 individual steps and processes involved to make it from silicon wafer to the end chip. It can take a month or two to make one complex chip, like CPU, GPU or FPGA, often with 50 layers, and 20 metal layers. Precision of alignment between each step requires most sophisticated temperature control, optical alignment, laser interferometry, vibration free environment, and dimensional stability (often made of granit, or active water based circulation in major mechanical components to control temperatures within fractions of a degree), and smoothness (often air or magnetic bearings), to ensure repeatability and accuracy, often to just tens of nanometers.

[blayral]

after 20 years, i finaly understand what was drawn in that intel "how a chip is made" book...

[davidthacher]

Very good overview. Heck the holes vs electron explanation was better than my circuits class in college. Did gloss over a lot of topics. Transistor/diode types, equations, layout traits, reductions, operations, etc. Simulation, layout, design, etc. Forgot testing and verification of IC, binning, etc. However still a very good overview.

[jhanthony]

I just got a new laptop with an AMD processor. The CPU has 4.15 billion transistors in an 81 mm^2 area. That's more than 51 million transistors per squre millimeter, ignoring all the capacitors and resisters that are also packed in there. And I'm proud of myself when I make an LED blink.

[AjinkyaMahajan]

Wonderful Content!!
I work in microelectronics and such videos makes me proud
Cheers ✨✌

[davidca]

IC's are so amazing, the size we are able to make transistors is mind boggling and every year it just gets better even though the die sizes nowadays are not shrinking as fast as they did in the past.

[richardskull]

I worked in a Quartz fabrication shop.
We made quartz carriers, tools, pedestals and furnace tubes.
All used in the manufacturing of chips.
Very interesting

[mcds]

I was an IC Layout Design Engineer (Mask Designer) in Silicon Valley for 33 years... now retired. Your video is excellent!

[adamsvette]

Thank you!!! I have been asking and searching for a video like this for years! Awesome job! Very thorough but easy to understand

[GadgetUK]

Surprised more people haven't subbed from the EEVBlog video - great content!!! This channel is well under subscribed!

[spencerwarren]

If anyone is wondering what the process of plasma sputtering is, applied science on YouTube made a video where he makes the machine to do it. Super interesting watch.

[pumpkinheadghoul]

What's even more amazing, considering the modern miracles of science which goes into creating these microchips, is that one microchip doesn't cost as much as a house. If you were to travel back 100 years, you wouldn't even be able to explain the concept of a microchip to another person. It would have been far beyond what even science fiction was capable of imagining. To the untrained brain, mine for example, just one microchip is as mind-boggling as the depths of the universe.

[GregSr]

One of my customers manufactures these chips. Years ago, I worked for a company that sold very accurate vision assisted routing machines for processing the chip carriers. I was required to write a CNC program that cut out the internal pockets where the chip will be inserted. The camera would confirm the location of the alignment marks (fiducials) on the chip carrier and then a small (.032") router bit would cut the pocket out. Tolerances were in the microns. (One micron = 0.000039"). In order to maintain the extreme tolerances, the wear of the carbide router bit had to be factored into the routing algorithm.

[GoLDnTRiXX]

Great Great video. The coolest part for me was that you showed the real deal, from the engineers, over the countless machines etc.

[premdasyesudasan]

The only video that cleared my doubts on microchips.

[ANTALIFE]

So cool to see wafer processing on an industrial scale. Back at uni it was mostly manual work for me, so seeing an automated photoresist dispenser is super neat :D

[ozmobozo]

This is the only video that is made for humans to understand since all other ones I've seen are like enigma scripts.

[victorsegoviapalacios]

Forget about Intel and AMD, Infineon makes Semiconductor chips so specialized, for incredibly unique and expensive applications, that they make even more revenue and profit that AMD!!!!