Processor under microscope. Nanometer journey

Let's take a trip to nanometer world of processors and admire beautiful silicon crystals, modern and not so – from 10 microns to invisible in a light microscope 7 nanometers.

[glashoppah]

The technology that produces these devices is the most precise and highest technology there is. The amount of work that goes into simply building the plant is mind-boggling, and the machines that “print” the circuits onto the silicon are far *more* mind-boggling. It’s a miracle that they’re as cheap as they are.

[akisalmenaho]

It still baffles me how people have managed to do something so tiny yet so powerful. Imagine all the research that has been poured into this!

[Dudleymiddleton]

My first PC in 1997 was a pentium 2 266mhz 64MB RAM 4 gig hdd. incredible images thank you for sharing!

[armaan_deo]

after watching a lots of videos on how chips are made and how these works .... the working of a micro processor is still a magic for me .... yess it is magic

[edwardndalo]

This is the highest degree of intelligence from the human brain. Kudos to those men and women working on this.

[dzedienhere]

MAD MAD respect for the efforts put to get out with such content, thank you sir.

[coffeepot]

I like seeing the 3D rendering of all the pathways in a cpu chip, just incredible.

[joejoebeefcraft]

They should make jewelry from these silicon chips

[seeker]

In the era of hyper edited videos, one rare beautifully made video. Thank you

[RetroGadgetMan]

Always fascinated me. I can't imagine how these things are designed.

[ReasonMakes]

The colours are "false" in the same way some butterfly wings have "false" colours! They both have repeating structures smaller than certain wavelengths of light. Amazing phenomenon.

[Maltebyte]

Its incredible to think that we made this! From the dawn of man were we lived in tribes outdoors making our first stone tools to eventually making an electronic brain! Just amazes me!

[morosso]

computers are so intelligent. yet the intelligence of those people behind who created it what is astounding. incredible!

[frankiepoindexter]

I appreciate the Terminator 2 music in the background, it reminds me of Cyberdyne Systems and how the manufactured the SkyNet A.I. that ended up becoming self aware and nuking planet Earth lol.

[Nightweaver]

The fact that the guts of a modern CPU are simply too small to see because their parts are narrower than the spectrum of visible light is crazy to me.
And I really wasn't expecting you to end on a Terminator reference. That's kind of unsettling to think that computers, designing their own kind, may one day decide we are no longer needed.

[gkdresden]

Diffraction is no more the limit of optical microscopy. You can get color pictures of sub wave length structures by use of optical scanning near field microscopy. There are microscopes of this kind which can achieve a lateral resolution of less than 5 nm with ultra-thin quartz tips, obtained by an etching technology. The theoretical limit is atomic resolution in true color. For this purpose you need to irradiate the sample with wavelength tuned laser light pulses according to the three human color receptor wavelength maxima. Superconducting bolometers can act as radiation receivers which count each single photon as a measure of intensity of the reflected light. The result is a natural true color picture of these sub-micron structures. This is really amazing.

[nickcrane]

Your video is amazing. Even having studied how they make these in college, I'm still in awe of what we can do. Seeing them like this in such high detail is incredible.

[maxammon]

You produced a very high quallity Video there. I especially liked the integration of the music! Greetings!!

[Divyam_Deep]

Processors to me feel like a whole different life form. They started simple, evolved just like we humans did to become so damn complex and magnificent. It's just matter of time when these processors will have thoughts and consciousness like we do. Just magic!

[MasalaFlavour_]

Thanks for this video Sir! I'm a Computer Science Student and this helps me a lot!
Love from INDIA❤❤