Branch Education | How are Microchips Made? (2024)

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Branch Education | How are Microchips Made? (2024)

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.

This is the MOST complicated video we've made by FAR!! 4 different animators have been working on this video non-stop for the past 5 months, for a total of 1300 hours of research, modeling, script writing, animating, editing, animating again, rendering, and then more editing. Support us on Patreon is you want more videos like this one.

00:00 - How are Transistors Manufactured?

02:06 - The nanoscopic processes vs the microchip fab

02:34 - What's inside a CPU?

04:31 - What are FinFet Transistors

05:06 - Imagine Baking a Cake

05:44 - Simplified Steps for Microchip Manufacturing

07:51 - 3D Animated Semiconductor Fabrication Plant Tour

09:54 - Categories of Fabrication Tools

10:26 - Photolithography and Mask Layers

11:52 - EUV Photolithography

13:39 - Deposition Tools

15:02 - Etching Tools

16:02 - Ion Implantation

17:03 - Wafer Cleaning Tools

17:29 - Metrology Tools

18:16 - Detailed Steps for Microchip Fabrication

20:29 - Research and Hours Spent on this Video

22:18 - Silicon Wafer Manufacturing

23:19 - Wafer Testing

23:42 - Binning

24:59 - Explore Brilliant

27:20 - Thank you to Patreon Supporters

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