How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps #2

How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

Integrated Circuits, CPUs, GPUs, Systems on a Chip, Microcontroller Chips, and all the other different types of microchips are the brains of all the devices and technology that we use on a daily basis. But have you ever wondered how these microchips are made? Well, in this video, we’re going to take a tour of a microchip fabrication plant or fab and walk you through the dozens of steps used to make a microchip. Specifically, we focus on how CPUs are made. CPU, GPU, and Smartphone Microchip manufacturing is a multi-trillion dollar industry, and each factory costs in the tens of billions of dollars. This is an overview of all the processes used to make a microchip, as well as an overview of a microchip factory. We’re planning more videos on microchip manufacturing, such as a 3D animated factory tour.

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Shoutout to Asianometry YouTube channel    / @asianometry  . This YouTube channel is filled with tons of information on the semiconductor industry, and Microchip Fabs.

Table of Contents:

  1. 00:00 – How are Transistors Manufactured?
  2. 02:06 – The nanoscopic processes vs the microchip fab
  3. 02:34 – What’s inside a CPU?
  4. 04:31 – What are FinFet Transistors
  5. 05:06 – Imagine Baking a Cake
  6. 05:44 – Simplified Steps for Microchip Manufacturing
  7. 07:51 – 3D Animated Semiconductor Fabrication Plant Tour
  8. 09:54 – Categories of Fabrication Tools
  9. 10:26 – Photolithography and Mask Layers
  10. 11:52 – EUV Photolithography
  11. 13:39 – Deposition Tools
  12. 15:02 – Etching Tools
  13. 16:02 – Ion Implantation
  14. 17:03 – Wafer Cleaning Tools
  15. 17:29 – Metrology Tools
  16. 18:16 – Detailed Steps for Microchip Fabrication
  17. 20:29 – Research and Hours Spent on this Video
  18. 22:18 – Silicon Wafer Manufacturing
  19. 23:19 – Wafer Testing
  20. 23:42 – Binning
  21. 24:59 – Explore Brilliant
  22. 27:20 – Thank you to Patreon Supporters