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EP37 - The Digital Chisel: How Light Sculpts Microchips from Sand

EP37 - The Digital Chisel: How Light Sculpts Microchips from Sand

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 We hold a supercomputer in our hands, a seamless piece of glass and metal. But how do we manufacture its brain—a microchip with billions of parts a thousand times thinner than a hair? This episode deconstructs the most precise manufacturing process in human history, revealing how we use stencils, acid, and a mind-bending trick with the physics of light to turn common sand into thinking matter.
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