How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

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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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Table of Contents:
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

Key Branches from this video are: How do Computers Work? How do SoCs Work?

Animation: Mike Radjabov, Prakash Kakadiya, Adrei Dulay, Parvesh Khatri
Research, Script and Editing: Teddy Tablante
Twitter: @teddytablante
Modeling: Mike Radjabov, Prakash Kakadiya
Voice Over: Phil Lee
Sound Design: https://www.drilu.world/
Sound Effects and Music Editor: Raúl Núñez, David Pinete
Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer: Luis Huesca

Erratum:

Animation built using Blender 4.1 https://www.blender.org/

Internet References:
WikiChip Fuse https://fuse.wikichip.org/ is an amazing resource for the specs of different technology nodes.

Semiconductor Engineering https://semiengineering.com/ is an amazing resource for news in the semiconductor industry.

TechPowerUp https://www.techpowerup.com/ is an amazing resource for tech specs of various technology devices.

Wikipedia contributors. "FOUPs", "Integrated Circuits", "Photolithography", "Semiconductor Devices", "Semiconductor Device Fabrication", " Silicon". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited May 13nd 2024

Internet References:
Tool Model reference images acquired from: https://www.appliedmaterials.c....om/il/en/semiconduct
https://www.tel.com/product/al....l/index.html#localna

Textbooks:
Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology By Robert Doering and Yoshio Nishi

Microchip Fabrication: A Practical Guide to Semiconductor Processing. Peter Van Zant

Semiconductor Microchips and Fabrication: A Practical Guide to Theory and Manufacturing by Yaguang Lian

Semiconductor Manufacturing Handbook. Second Edition By Hwaiyu Geng

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