Integrated Circuits & Moore's Law: Crash Course Computer Science #17

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So you may have heard of Moore's Law and while it isn't truly a law it has pretty closely estimated a trend we've seen in the advancement of computing technologies. Moore's Law states that we'll see approximately a 2x increase in transistors in the same space every two years, and while this may not be true for much longer, it has dictated the advancements we've seen since the introduction of transistors in the mid 1950s. So today we're going to talk about those improvements in hardware that made this possible - starting with the third generation of computing and integrated circuits (or ICs) and printed circuit boards (or PCBs). But as these technologies advanced a newer manufacturing process would bring us to the nanoscale manufacturing we have today - photolithography.
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Actually, humans DO still manually lay out millions of transistors on modern IC's! VLSI and place-and-route logic synthesis has it's place but human-driven physical design for the most critical components is still a huge part of the chip design process. Photomask design has been my career for over 15 years :)

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It's so crazy: photoresist and washing is how old school blue prints were made. Crazy how such a lo-tech method formed the basis of our hi-tech chips.

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That's actually the power of abstraction. You can turn low-level tech into high-tech and make it look like magic (I mean mathematics). For example, the first levels were literally turning on and off a switch.

[@FalbertForester]

Yeah, it's another application of a technology that was around at the time. The same process was used to make the first PCBs: Take a fiberglass board, coat both sides with copper. Use photoresist and etching to remove unwanted copper, and you're left with copper "traces" - a.k.a. wires - on both sides of the board. Then drill the holes through, and you've got a PCB.

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So, I've spent dozens of hours learning the details of this procress, and truely grocking why each step was needed. But watching this animation, I realize that I've never seen a good video that demonstrates the process. The modern assembly process is so self-contained and masked off that it makes for really boring video. But someone needs to do this, as you describe it, using the old slow methods that pioneered this field. I don't think that exists on KZbin right now.

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This is awesome! I unfortunately found this video quite late, as I see it’s 5 years old. I have been working with integrated circuits for 9 years now and I’ll just say those 7 nanometer transistors are tricky!

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I have done work in photolithographic development, and this is a good quick summary.

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Its worth noting that the actual processing speed hasn't sped up in the last 2 decades, as in the early 00"s the clock speed hit its cap because of temperature. The efforts of more transistors are used to increase parallel processing, and the speedup for that is subject to Amdahl's law.

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That triple pun at the end....I don't know whether I'm proud or exasperated by it :P

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I can Si a few Moore pun opportunities, but MOSt people's patience for them would drain away.

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Any MOORE puns guys?

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This was a DOPE episode! There's a very real chance that QUANTUM Computing will blow up huge (if it's not already) and become commercially successful. It's the only logical next step to physical transistors.

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미셜비 we can add two single digit numbers, so.... It's working... Ish

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+*_-TheOlian04-_* Last I heard a quantum computer could count and operate with 4 bits a Shame the Damned thing takes Up an entire Laboratory So maybe One Day in the future

[@wrainexc1]

To add on the limit of Moore's Law. At some point in the future making the transistors smaller cannot be achieved since then the size of a transistor will be in the order of a few atom. However, Moore's Law does not directly have anything to do with the size of a transistor, but with the number of transistors per IC. This can also be achieved by other methods like 3D-stacking of transistors. For those curious, I would advise to google a bit, there is plenty of information on the topic available.

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

Still recovering from the pun storm at the end. I know it's not your topic, but it would be interesting to do an episode on the environmental consequences of all that acid washing of chips in Silicon Valley back in the day.

[@adamprieto121]

“Researchers have been predicting the end of Moore’s law for decades.” *Laughs in Intel 13th gen*

[@DrewDvorak]

What a great video, actually fun to watch. Thanks!

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Thank you so much for doing this! Learning so much more than my actual computer science degree...

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now i understand why she reiterated... "computers are NOT magical"! It really is "mind-melting" :D

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Could see this being a historic episode

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11:02 Apple's M1 Ultra chip HAS 114 BILLION TRANSISTORS. Even more than the newer M2 Max... Mindblowing.

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I wouldn't have been able to tell that those last 3 puns at the end were actually puns if it weren't for the subtitles emphasising them 😂.

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Over 3 billion transistor in a area of 1x1 cm, that incredible. But while I watch this video, there was one thought that come to me: this is so complex that 90% of the population don't know and can't understand it. Then what happen if one day the system collapse? If an extinction event happen, when the factory and the small number of people who understand all this is gone then our world - the world of electronic - will be over in the blink of an eyes. Scary thought that keep me up at night.

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Who else wants to see Lego integrated circuits?

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12:20 "whether if it will be ever commercially feasible it will be (masked) in mystery, but maybe we will be able to (resolve) it the future, I am (dying) to know." very punny

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What a nice and comprehensive episode. So, is there a "sequel" episode planned, that explains some of the ways scientist try in state of the art science to tackle the inevitable end of Moore's law? I'm thinking of spintronics and fields like that...

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Artificial intelligence is going to help us develop way more efficient chip designs. It's just the kind of problem those algorithms are good at. Also Moores law has been happening long before even vacuum tubes, and the will continue past modern transistors. It's actually a "law" about the pace of information technology. Going all the way back to writing or earlier.

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this is a really great informative video. However, you forget to mention the third reason which further miniaturization of such ICs may face. every transistor is fabricated over the Si wafer which itself is a electrical conductor through which current/electrons are traveling. These results in local HOT-SPOT of nanometer size. the heat flux density over these Hot-spot is expected to go beyond 1000W/cm^2 in 2020 which needs to be dissipate for the successful operation of ICs otherwise these electronic components will fail.

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