Zoom Into a Microchip

[@bugoobiga]

I don't know what's more impressive - the microchip, or the machine that makes the microchip

[@VORTEX203114]

bugoobiga And YET the machine that made the micro chip was made by a firkin HUMAN!? lool wow

[@gr1nder07]

or the machine thats made with microchips, both made by people, and has the ability to see and accurately show down to 1 micron?? Could you imagine if you found out that microchip they zoomed into was the same model used to make the SEM? It'd be like chip-ception

[@justinpatterson7700]

To think that we started using computers the size of rooms with vacuum tubes and now we can fit a device that does this same job ( as a vacuum tube) into just twenty nm or less

[@RazaMK]

i wonder if that machine had a micro chip too

[@rockmandashzero]

or the microscope.

[@charlesajones77]

As someone who studied computer science in college, I find that the more you know about how computers work, the more astounding it is that they work correctly at all.

[@mjl1966y]

It's all a gift from aliens -- no way the Internet can work without some serious physics bending... voltage change in my PC arrives on the other side of the world intact? mux'd with a million others? Yeah, right. Aliens I tell ya'

[@t1e6x12]

@@mjl1966y I cant tell if youre being serious or not.

[@YeOldeKamikaze]

Yes. It gives me an insane amount of anxiety thinking of all the parts that could get messed up and the many many many ways things can go wrong, both in software and hardware.

[@kjellringstrom6217]

@@YeOldeKamikaze And to think we have about the same stuff in our heads, trillions of nerve cells working together to makes us what we are. thinking of it gives me anxiety, what if something stop working properly?

[@YeOldeKamikaze]

@@kjellringstrom6217 Perhaps you weren't supposed to be aware of that, and this conversation is all due to a widespread anomaly in the human brain :-B

[@ChildOL]

Difficult to believe that objects that small can be manufactured

[@Mutation80]

Yet you use them every day

[@aluisious]

They're created with something more like a photographic process. Machining such things would be so wildly expensive no one could afford a microchip.

[@flatplant]

funny enough that's an outdated chip from the 90's today they're 100x smaller.

[@johnathankrausrig9237]

they "just" used a photo ink, a laser with extremely low wavelength, acid (not the one to get high :D) and highly precision and mass producing. Its a long way to archive something beautyful like that, but we arent at the end of this way.

[@GustavoRivasMendez]

So they are basically printed by lasers? That is amazing.

[@tylershepard4269]

I’m an undergraduate electrical engineering major, and microchip design and fabrication is absolutely amazing to me. It’s something that’s very close to my heart.

[@ferisiandamanik1128]

❤️🧠🙏

[@A_Stereotypical_Heretic]

You got a pacemaker?

[@flippert0]

Remember: one dust particle and the whole chip is useless

[@കുട്ടൂസൻ-ദ1ണ]

1 impure atom for a million pure silicon atoms

[@botyaltotertutal468]

Bit of an exaggertion innit

[@flippert0]

@@botyaltotertutal468 Actually, no. There's a reason why the strictest clean room policy is something like 1 dust particle per cubic meter.

[@NathanChisholm041]

@@flippert0 I'd like to empty my vacuum cleaner's bag out in one of those clean rooms to see their faces!

[@bloodygekkon]

Hmm that is why Intel employees working with spacesuits

[@plopperator]

They must have very small soldering irons and steady hands for this.

[@plopperator]

ok but probably still need very steady hands.

[@demonetizeddemonetisedinmy1890]

ploperator actually very accurate pistons and gears. All the making is done by a computer/robot

[@plopperator]

then the computers must have very steady hands

[@dieglhix]

***** lol

[@plopperator]

Poontang_Pounder it probably started with a chicken.

[@likedcommentsRdeleted]

if you look closely you can see one of those "Tron" bikes.....

[@coloneldd]

omg i can see it...thank you so much:))))

[@V1TYA.]

I read this comment when I got 18 year old.

[@nodak81]

Light Cycle

[@DebugCat]

@@V1TYA. ok 7 year old

[@MM-vs2et]

''The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?''

[@clansman89]

How do they produce screws so small?

[@TheNdoki]

People with really tiny hands.

[@sgpsimonb]

maybe there is a future for d.trump...

[@trentkiewicz21]

Maaan, I wanted to say that xD

[@ronch550]

clsman89 they use microns, of course.

[@elonwong]

That super big, now chip could be marked at 7nm

[@projectom9950]

This amount of engineering and structure is amazing. And yet ppl throw their computers in the trash when it "stops working"

[@bsky6525]

When your iPhone 10 with a very powerful processor with an inbuilt gpu, modem and a ton of sensors doesnt record your stupid tiktok in 8k 120fps like the new iPhone 14

[@Swavvy116Xrs]

No one can beat the simple power of supply & demand

[@alexio1942]

@@Swavvy116Xrsmore like supply and stupidity

[@Scientist_Albert_Einstein]

I am a physicist and even i don't fully understand how these are made. I have heard about lithography, etc... but I never had any classes in college that taught us how these things are made. It is amazing what we humans can make!

[@guigui78340]

the engineers who designed this, are more astonishing.

[@lionheartrsn1]

sugar glider CAD

[@bryede]

In the early days of integrated circuits, the entire chip design was done by hand and then shrunk to production size by a photographic process. Today it's all done by computer and it's possible to design a chip completely by a description of it's function and let the software figure out where to put everything.

[@СтаканВоды-б9ц]

@@bryede "all done by a computer" - yes, sure.

[@EGL24Xx]

@@СтаканВоды-б9ц Yes, really.

[@WaveForceful]

That what over 50 years of science and research does.

[@yusmag]

It feels like Google earth, and you zoom into a dried field crop.

[@tarcisofilho4878]

To see the bacteria on the larvae...

[@panc4kes276]

Tarciso Filho To see the atoms of the bacteria

[@wsapalas]

To see the ropes on the atoms. (Maybe)

[@tromick]

I was looking for this comment.

[@darian.brumari]

@@timothyegoroff8333 i can see you bitch

[@DaniloOliveira87]

Hi, sorry but the last part of the video is super incorrect. A 20nm transistor size is not 20nm by 20nm. 20nm is the CHANNEL LENGTH. the channel width is normally bigger than the length, and you still need area for the drain, the source, the bulk, the contacts, and metal routing. the area you showed is 1um², and with a 14nm technology they can fit only 15-30 transistors in there, not 50x50=2500.

[@leiflawhite6890]

Right. and on that chip, there are no features smaller than what we could see just before the 20nm overlay.

[@mdhj67]

Yep. And the minimum channel sizes are almost never used in analog circuitry.

[@joefuentes2977]

We were looking at only the top metal layers right?

[@ediodimacaroni]

@Mikey moo uhhh i also agree. transistor does stuff

[@deadsi]

Crazy how precise it still is, I thought since it's at the edge of technology it'd be quite rough at that scale, looks like it's possible to go half that size still

[@misterdude4296]

'Music by Redman' I must be deaf because I didn’t even hear the music by RedMan.

[@pankajkaurav3155]

Same here even i put speaker near to my here in full volume but didn't get any one single sound 😂😂

[@MannVerde]

It was worth coming to the comment section 😂😂

[@leandrolui9951]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqjcdaajrdKEjqM

[@MrBlackHawk888]

RedMan just composed a track that some people always ask for! Called "Silence" or something like that. Turn it on and enjoy.

[@tuberoako777]

This is just so amazing. Probably the most sophisticated man made, no living structure; the modern microchip.

[@Gnocke]

+tuberoako777 i don;t think its a man made

[@Tremor244]

+Saric Milan You are right, its made by machines that are made by man!

[@erinnerungen8823]

+Tremor244 it's still impressive what man has made possible

[@marcse7en]

Of course they're man made! Without man, they wouldn't be made!

[@NathanChisholm041]

@Anothercg Gmail Reversed engineered from downed extra terrestrial craft! 👽

[@cosmotect]

3 am youtube, here we go again

[@tromick]

hahaha 4:37 AM here.

[@hopydaddy]

KZbin sucks you in; it's a drug and you are an addict.

[@tromick]

@@hopydaddy I can't call something habbit if it is helps me to improve my educate.

[@adityarai8170]

2:04 am right now

[@EricTViking]

02:43 - deffo off to bed now ;)

[@MRooodddvvv]

seems like this particular chip is not too new. otherwise there should be structures all the way to the tenths of nanometers.

[@NISENet]

Correct! It's an I/O chip from the late 90's.

[@ernststavroblofeld1961]

Your video skills are terrible. There are jumps in the zoom. My advice, don't drink, while making movies. Better make a video, showing how we can make our own CPUs.

[@derbigpr500]

I can't decide whether you're a troll or just a big idiot.

[@MRooodddvvv]

derbigpr500 how bout "BIG TROLL" !?

[@ernststavroblofeld1961]

BEERCOASTERSpl Finally somebody talks some sense! Stand easy!

[@KILOPOWER]

3:13 so, yes, music... on of the best i ever heard! she plays 1/2 of my day everyday everywhere!

[@Jeremy.Bearemy]

I didn't hear any music

[@Just-Ivy196]

@@Jeremy.Bearemy that's the point

[@JF32304]

Even more amazing is the fact that it works!

[@iancraftsandmines6266]

HOW DO THEY FIT A TRANSISTOR IN 20 F**KING NANOMETERS?!

[@cyancoyote7366]

They have steady hands...

[@adamkahn4284]

It really gives you a perspective for stuff like this... www.theverge.com/2015/7/9/8919091/ibm-7nm-transistor-processor and to think that the width of a strand of DNA is 2 nanometers...

[@Javiertr86]

alien technology shit

[@cyancoyote7366]

***** So it's not worth to calculate transistor count using the die size and transistor size xP

[@GrzegorzDurda]

Its Photographed into place.

[@BlueberrySapSmoke]

so the microchip is made by a robot? which is powered by a microchip? Which came first? the chicken or the egg

[@hyprolxag]

the first was huge, but they became smaller, the bigger made the smaller.

[@Gameboygenius]

What came first was people making a photomask by hand by cutting pieces out of an opaque material the size of a table. This large image was then focused down onto the silicon wafer to etch out semiconductor and metal layers on the wafer.

[@iancraftsandmines6266]

The first robots didn't have the microchips. They had giant PCBs. Made from large full-sized components, transistors 500,000 (I did the approximate math) times bigger. They were huge, but made logic gates fit onto smaller circuits. These helped them make smaller logic gates and smaller CPUs. These new CPUs made better robots which made better cpus, and so on. By the way if the microchip is the egg and the robot is the chicken, the chicken came first.

[@aluisious]

People do not cut out photomasks and "focus down." Masks are now made with electron beam lithography systems...which is really similar to the SEM that was used to image the chip here.

[@Gameboygenius]

+aluisious Yes, of course they don't do that *now*. That was an answer to the chicken and egg question. E-beam scanners and FIBs are robots in the sense of the question because they practically require numerical control.

[@kujiro_x8099]

"Music by Redmann" yeah good job man the music sounds awesome

[@janithherath8409]

hah ha

[@RjBenjamin353]

Damn! Those Chinese kids working for Apple at 50 cents a day have damn good eyesight

[@helenchelmicka3028]

lol lol

[@muzgnasicianie]

Why for Apple and not for Samsung or Xiaomi ect.

[@marks6663]

@@muzgnasicianie Apple is notorious for its slave labor practices.

[@muzgnasicianie]

@@marks6663 And you think that $amsung is better 😂 while Apple use some $amsung’s components. Also Xiaomi is Chinese company so I highly doubt that it is better than Apple. Sorry for bursting your bubble 🙊

[@-KillaWatt-]

@@muzgnasicianie Your argument is a whataboutism? Neither company can or should be defended in terms of labor practices. You mention Samsung like the original comment about Apple was a personal attack. When Apple breaks Chinese Labor laws you know you are an evil corporation. Generating resources from slave labor isn't enough for Apple. Neither is slave labor for manufacturing but Apple even used cotton that was made from slave labor for their company uniforms worldwide. It's company has been fined and warned multiple times for labor practices and multiple studies show Apple is by far the leader in use of forced labor to make their products. Amazon is a distant second. If you look at the entire chain of production from sourced materials to the phone/laptop/etc in the package Apple is the worst offender for forced human labor and its not even close.

[@vhpf1699]

こんなに目にも見えないような細かい回路がちゃんと動作するって神秘的ですね。 70年くらい前の真空管やらトランジスタやらの時代からわずかの短期間でここまで、技術が向上するなんて 人類の歴史から見てみればごく短い期間なのにテクノロジーの発展ていうのはすごいですね

[@kamikazeboy123]

Just wondering, wouldnt we see any bacteria or any microorganisms on it?

[@alextrebek8293]

they're made in super clean environments and the workers wear moon suits

[@alla-turca]

alex trebek moon suit

[@alexa.davronov1537]

@@alla-turca LOL

[@tylershepard4269]

alex trebek Lol moon suits would be comfortable compared to our clean room suits.

[@ahmdf]

Empty spaces in a chip are filled with silicon dioxide.

[@AlexandreRosas]

the 2015 movie 'blackhat' begins with a 4 minutes sequence where we dive into a microchip as well, but through a highly realistic CGI model instead of electron microscope imagery (the CGI simulates an electron microscope result, though). the director said Qualcomm gave them a digital 3D model of a real microchip of theirs, only 8 years old as of 2015. fascinating stuff. the rest of the movie sucks, though.

[@jamesberwick2210]

I worked at a company that made Electron beam Microscopes years ago. We'd put in a simple counter and run it with a generator and the transistors would light up and you could watch the chip counting up or down, 'fun stuff.

[@paulebberson4884]

I assume we are only seeing the metal conducting layers here and the insulating layers between are invisible. Amazing that the technology can produce such a straight edge at this micron level.

[@hansdampf640]

wow! no timewasting intro,no crappy music this video just deliver what it promise :) good work sir. sub

[@groundsymphony]

Remember guys this is a 2014 chip, current ones is way smaller

[@muuubiee]

iirc IBM is doing 3nm.

[@vcv5021]

@@muuubiee tsmc 2nm

[@banu6301]

its way older lol, prob a late 90's chip current ones are orders of magnitude smaller

[@muuubiee]

@@banu6301 20nm is not that old. Intel is still at 14nm iirc. Late 90's would be +200nm.

[@flippert0]

@@muuubiee Yeah, but the 20nm at the end obviously wasn't used here. Finest structures are 1 micron. So it's probably indeed much older

[@yanzihko]

I applaud to all those people who managed to create this.

[@krix0043]

demonic inventions. people serve as their hands

[@zhongxina9420]

​@@krix0043you're not the brightest tool in the shed aren't you? it's just manipulating electrical signals to produce ones and zeroes

[@krix0043]

@@zhongxina9420 yep. just tell me how you put billions of transistors on a few square milimeters in several layers almost a few atoms thin. the processor technology seems just like something a human can invent and manufacture. especially when the tech enables demons. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fZYY-RzVuaKLiDcmjbbtAfJBQAMXOxkb?usp=drive_link

[@DHZ-xy5ui]

Fun fact: you can actually interpret the data on a flash memory chip this way. By analyzing the physical gates you could reconstruct the data on a chip. Obviously it's very time consuming. In digital forensics it is sometimes attemped in high-profile cases.

[@wilsan806]

​@Mudkip909wouldn't it bypass encryption?

[@wilsan806]

@Mudkip909 guess i need to read up on the cryptographic methods. Sorry for the necro friend

[@mob1235]

Wrong. You see the transistor is much larger. There are no 20nm transistors. Even the TSMC 7nm technique makes transistors with over 50nm.

[@Huanchee]

one thing I've wondered when I've seen videos like this....has anyone ever been able to successfully zoom in on a chip while it's actually receiving power and working? I'm sure it would need to be an even older chip than this one in order to even be possible....and would there even be anything to really "see" is another thing I'm wondering.

[@zeeeeeeeeeev6493]

Pretty sure theres nothing to see, its electricity moving through wires

[@ZackValenta]

*spits out coffee and slams mug* How the FUCK are those made?

[@Tremor244]

+Zack Valenta It actualy takes about 6 months just to make a single chip! :D

[@Tremor244]

By single chip i mean a waffer, they cut the chips out of the waffers, each has a few hundred chips on it

[@d1zguy864]

+Zack Valenta Roswell aliens lol

[@Yahgiggle]

+Morten Lauritsen the smaller they make them the more chip's they can cram onto one wafer they now make well over 1000 chips on one wafer oO, they use a layer system where they build each layer using solvents and other things to eatch away at the chip and yes it can take months to build a chip but x that by 100,000.00s made at a time then you can bring that cost down to what we pay nowdays also most of this is automated.

[@comprehendnature2404]

+Zack Valenta : It is a production of its own kind. Different light colors have different temperatures. By using light they make nano meter transistors. You can use normal transistors and make a computer out of it by hand soldiering it. You will need good knowledge of how to turn on/off transistors to build a memory card, but it will take thousands of hours to make one by hand. Now there is no soldering taking place when making memory cards, light is the new means of producing memory cards. Just look to the history of it, and you will be amazed by the progress we are making.

[@EnglishTeacherBerlin]

That is absolutely marvellous and of high educational value. Thank you for producing this fascinating insight!

[@BangMaster96]

Here's a fun fact, those microchips contains miles and miles of connections.

[@rudytoth]

And another true fact that there's real gold in those chips too. 👍😎👍

[@iCore7Gaming]

@@rudytoth it's silicon. gold is used on connections, but very little.

[@rudytoth]

@@iCore7Gaming Yes that's right, the electrons have a better conductivity at those entry points.

[@jimanderson9867]

It was nice, right up to the end, where you tried to say there were thousands of transistors packed into the gate of a single transistor.

[@johnuferbach9166]

yeah, the whole thing was kinda weird^^

[@tehan_fernando]

It's decades of technological and engineering development. Happy to see that.

[@felipevaldes6313]

how the fuck is this real life, MIND BLOWN

[@someguy5035]

When it zooms in and you're like holy crap. Then it zooms in some more and you see that it is multiple layers of what you were already seeing. It is mind boggling that humans can do this.

[@Desertduleler_88]

Absolutely incredible the extent of advanced miniaturisation today. At one stage there, it reminded me of the surface of the “Death Star”.

[@mnmufid]

Thanks for not added music on this great silent video

[@jaymantisgaming]

amazing stuff. i remember, as a kid, i was that kid who took all his toys apart to see how they worked. i got my greasy mitts on a circuit board and couldn't figure anything out. i cracked open a microschip and was like ''pfft! there's nothing in it. its just a plastic square'' and threw it away, probably to play with a capacitor or something. innocent times :D

[@c.m.7037]

And that's just the surface (although it does show some of the depth/layers of it too).

[@grahamdavies8924]

This seems very misleading. At 2:30, we are shown a 1 micron square divided into a 50 by 50 array of smaller squares, each small square therefore being 20 nanometers on a side. A caption fades in stating that "Each square represents a 20 nanometer transistor". This suggests, by using the vague word "represents", that you could fit such a transistor in each square. This is completely false. The characteristic dimension of a semiconductor technology is the minimum feature size, usually equal to the length of the gate of the switching transistors used in the internal logic circuits. The total size of such transistors is many times greater.

[@FreeManSaysAll]

I would love to see an updated version of with one of Intels newest microchips that are now down close to a atomic level!

[@CattleRustlerOCN]

Intel is at 10 nm, AMD is at 6 nm, and ibm just made a 2 nm prototype

[@ninja-wy6we]

The Asian worker's making these little bits and pieces fit into all the right places all day long every single time... Respect.

[@Encourageable]

There’s essentially no input from humans. It’s the machines making the chips that is impressive.

[@melbourneopera]

The compact circuits which form the mirochip is a form of art.

[@Bcso591]

It's like a city...

[@youtubehozkamunev3813]

... in China

[@C54rlo]

@@youtubehozkamunev3813 Or India

[@ahmdf]

That's how designers feel about it too

[@afoxwithahat7846]

Ya

[@joaogoncalves1149]

I found funny the instant jump from the dSLR to a SEM :D

[@viglosiabuilding9444]

Bacteria : "That's my home,, the blue one,, can you see it?"

[@yashsvidixit7169]

0:05 You know it's gonna be DOPE when you see that font.

[@semicontalk3223]

Nice video. It helps to understand how real IC looks like.

[@CriticalRoleHighlights]

Seeing this, you can really start to appreciate the reason for why we're starting to run out of space on microchips and how important it is for AI control and quantum computing to become a thing unless we want microchips to become exponentially larger.

[@krix0043]

"quantum computing" are demonic entity portals

[@punishedexistence]

Amazing that cities look just like this from space, and we're like the little electrons zooming around. Now think when you short one of these out, the utter chaos that is ensuing in the nanometer range. It's kinda like when the supreme force decides that one of us die how insignificant it really is in the scale of even the earth, let alone the universe.

[@TTime685]

Imagine most of modern tech being destroyed and having to start over from scratch

[@superdude1534]

we would be screwed, most of the people who designed, developed, tested these chips are dead. Some might still be alive, but starting from scratch would require someone to have the knowledge also the resources of a massive company and limitless resources as it was when these first came out. Also something tells me the military had an involvment in some of the first microchips

[@giraffe3718]

@@superdude1534 well, he said "most" so this implies that not all of the technology would be destroyed also everything will be recorded on paper, thousands or even millions of times and secured in different places, so humans would never really have to start from scratch

[@bissy97]

I hope someone wrote down how to make chips.

[@odonnchadha1978]

Yeah like moon landing tech

[@AdamantLightLP]

@@odonnchadha1978 ? They are creating new landers cause the old ones are outdated. Do you drive a car from the 60s?

[@Packer1290]

I took a class on this in school. We used graph paper to draw out transistors, diodes, and resistors. The graph paper representing a piece of silicon. We would calculate how much "doping" was needed for specific square area. THere's P and N doping. A PNP or NPN in succession is a bipolar transistor. A PN is a diode. I can't recall how the resistor was doped. (It was a long time ago). We would just design simple ICs like a NOR gate or a small logic circuit, but its all the same concept. A real IC designer would of course use some kind of CAD program.

[@drhassoon]

Wow 😳 I never imagined a chip would be this complex and with parts this small. How on earth do they produce such thing?!

[@johnuferbach9166]

its kinda complicated, but i'm sure you can read a summary on wikipedia :D

[@drygordspellweaver8761]

Lasers and lenses to compress the beam to ridiculously small size and etch out patterns on silicon wafer

[@wrestlingconnoisseur]

I just thought of something: If I was six microns, I'd still be pretty tall.

[@Yana.-_-.]

What's the first The microchip or Machine that made microchip?

[@AAvfx]

First time I've understood what is nanotechnology! (Almost...) 👍🥇

[@athomenotavailable]

The complexity to design and technology to fabricate these chips are far beyond the most complex analog watches

[@dustymiller2912]

It's amazing what human ingenuity can achieve when people are allowed to pursue their own interests in a free society.

[@alpha-q1066]

Nobody: youtube at 3 am : hey! wanna zoom into microchips??

[@bountyhunter4885]

2:32... So....THAT'S where Waldo has been hiding. I knew it. 😉

[@kaustavchakraborty8773]

Legends say, it's still zooming.

[@inspirationalgoosebumps6006]

Does that legend has anything else to do or he just blabber

[@kaustavchakraborty8773]

@@inspirationalgoosebumps6006 Legend was new 2 years ago. He is dead now.

[@acorgiwithacrown467]

How is it even possible to design and make something so Precise?

[@HandledToaster2]

Very small hands

[@bamberghh1691]

corgidog you make robots that build circuits. You build a robot that works on this circuit that builds smaller circuits. You build a robot that works on this smaller circuit that builds even smaller circuits and so on

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

AppleToaster I agree with you. Small hands are key

[@iamwisdomsky]

it's using a technique called photolithography. they're just like projecting very small patterns into a board(wafer) and poof! it became coco crunch!

[@erezinanicolet3601]

Salute to those who did this amazing thing.

[@souls2music567]

It is so wonderful how we can make this great machine meticulosly and accurately in the microscopic level.

[@Applerulit]

Удивительно! Это тут, я как понимаю, показан размер 20-ти нанометрового тех процесса, и в конце ролика стоит дата 1012 год. А новости февраля 2018 говорят уже о 3 нанометровом тех процессе, то есть транзисторов, на такой же площади, как в данном ролике, поместится в 6 раз больше. Как эти демоны так делают?

[@NDmitriyI]

Сделать еще меньше не проблема. Проблема в том, что электрон начинает проявлять свои волновые свойства.

[@chrissawyer3862]

I can't watch this without listening to Phillip Glass.

[@ObjectableApparatus]

looks like a military base

[@sibaprasadcoolofaboloawesome]

or like houses in a town

[@TheFujac]

i'll go with suburban 'blocks' too

[@HandledToaster2]

Or a maze... A huge, tiny maze.

[@Dwight511]

Not really a maze when all the electrons know exactly where to go. xD

[@Dwight511]

+Douglas Lol, that's not what I meant, the electron's path is controlled by switches obviously.

[@robertbilling6266]

I remember when professor William (Bill) Beck first achieved sub-micron fabrication in Cambridge. I was attending his lectures on electron optics at the time.

[@leesmith9872]

It's not just the fact that this is made but that's it's mass produced and improved upon yearly

[@piotrdmochewicz5055]

nice film, but what happened with the music? ;-)

[@TheMackLyons]

No music could ever withstand the sweet, silent song of nanotechnology.

[@NISENet]

There's a narrated version with the music. I should have taken out the music credit in the silent version.

[@amaze2n]

how in the hell do they make this?

[@amaze2n]

***** I know, but still... it's insane

[@Synthcave]

amaze2n Illuminati...

[@Synthcave]

amaze2n Illuminati...

[@holyfuckitsablondedoesitme7120]

+amaze2n sorry for late but its is crafted by -Jesus- laser (explain by Eisenstein the Atheist)

[@Synthcave]

Holyfuck its a Blonde! Does it mean they're dumb&shit? Really?... i dont know what you talking about xD

[@sirisoj]

And everithing started with chipped stones. I think we've evolved a bit since then.

[@jumblyman]

So the final piece had to be represented with a drawing because it's too small to be shown by an electron microscope??

[@SD-unlimited]

So what’s going on in there to make it work? It’s 1’s and 0’s correct? On or off? It’s neat to see all the lines and layers but I’m curious why it’s built like this and how it functions.

[@aluisious]

"Each square represents a 20nm transistor" that was not pictured here.

[@gr1nder07]

lmao

[@quantbits2944]

What if Microships zooms at you?

[@kinganime2702]

Where is music?

[@smacman68]

Just think about how many things have to be PERFECT for this thing to work. One tiny flaw and you're done. Mind numbing

[@falcongamer58]

How do you even design them

[@internetwarrior666]

How could anyone have designed this? ALIENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@InnovumTechnology]

They're mostly designed by computers now. Kind of. Humans create a description of how the processor works. Basically you have simple electronic circuits that can perform logic calculations, store small quantities of data, or do simple math. They describe larger circuits as interconnected groups of these circuits, and describe circuits that are larger yet as interconnected groups of those circuits, etc. Eventually they end up with a simple description of the processor, typically ending up being significantly less complex than your average computer program. From there, they simply put it into a computer, decide how the chip will be arranged on a large scale, and then have the computer do the rest. Modern microprocessors are far more complex than the one you see here though. The circuits are about 50-100 times smaller, and those smaller components are in an area that's much larger as well.

[@elpachonisimoSOS]

Sassymui8 White people, quieres decir que no hubo una contribucion por parte de las personas de color o los amarillos?

[@amaze2n]

elpachonisimo SOS whoever here said that people of colour made no contribution to this technology? I wish people would stop pulling the race card. There are incredibly intelligent people of every colour and nationality, it has absolutely nothing to do with race. Stop playing the victim. What he was saying is that this technology is so mindblowing and complex, that only beings from outer space with superior intelligence could have come up with a way to create it. It's a joke. I guess you misunderstood the word "aliens" as referring to people from foreign countries. In that case, sorry, but please believe that most white people are not prejudiced against you.

[@elpachonisimoSOS]

amaze2n Bueno claramente yo soy una persona hispanohablante, y apenas entendí por el traductor de google lo que intentas expresar, claro entiendo el contexto de "la broma" soy consciente que solo somos comentarios en un video de youtube, no me siento victima, simplemente el racismo esta tan atrás en mi forma de ver las cosas que es ridículo hablar de ello, sin embargo quería ver que me respondía Sassymui8 se que la inteligencia y la raza es cuestión de posibilidad y deseo así como de capacidad congénita, de ahí en mas todo depende de cada uno de nosotros mismos. Interestingly many of those who speak English are offended when a person responds with another language is something I've tended to see in the comments

[@andersmatte]

From Roswell and such alien crashes.

[@MilanVVVVV]

Intel announced 7-10 nm transistors during 2017..

[@dan43544911]

Its just the process that is called like that, the transistors are actually 3 times larger

[@chriseffpunkt4333]

+dan43544911 Thanks Captain! Finally someone who got it.

[@toiletcompanion5422]

Milan Velebit lol there not even getting 10 nm until 2019

[@thepope2412]

There are already transistors smaller than that but of corse they’re being worked on.

[@HashtagPULSE]

Probably the lines

[@ErickVZG22]

This came from ALIENS xD

[@inox1ck]

Erick Alejandro yes I've seen many of them, they look identical to humans, except much smarter

[@asmrfan6543]

The aliens provide the machine that makes these, nothing more. Let's not get carried away! I think some humans are allowed to assist on the design, but mostly we're just apes peddling the wares.

[@Singularity2039]

To stupid people smart people must seem like "aliens".

[@Kuri0]

@@Singularity2039 /r/woosh

[@josuefairy]

Not aliens fir likely on Earth. Like this is a Terminator

[@Ayeloo]

This video scares me, just shows the huge amount of details the microscopic world has and how far our technology has come

[@vulcan4d]

Too bad the electron microscope could show you each transistor. We only got down to 1000nm.

[@reeshaug8522]

1:27 did anyone else see the death star

[@reeshaug8522]

1:17 even more so

[@magnitudematrix2653]

Its called CERN

[@SoloMewing007]

I didn't 😭😀😀

[@vanpenguin22]

I certainly hope the Oompah Loompahs are getting adequate compensation for their toil.

[@Monarch90]

who else coming here from youtube recomendation 2020?

[@samgreenwood8313]

What's astounding about this, is that this is a fairly low density chip, most of the components are VERT large compared to the latest memory and processor chips

[@rocker19943]

It is incredible how human can manage to create something this small, I know how the IC is manufactured but still...

[@triple_octa]

How did humans build that?

[@GrzegorzDurda]

the process is actually simple. Its actually photographed into place with a lens like the reverse of a microscope. So the design is large and then shrunk down.

[@MannequinOngaku]

That's impressive, but the complex design of the circuitry is a feat of its own. How do they manage to design such a complex system? Is it more of a pattern, or is each link and component individually designed?

Depends on the design, but usually there are large modular regions and a few less symmetrical parts. When they optimize for space in particular you can expect fewer symmetries because you need to cram a more diverse set of functionalities into a smaller and more interconnected region. The design is now done with computers, though many constraints are manually places by the programmer. Then the rest of the design is often left to the computer (and it will try to cram as many things as possible into space while also keeping the simulated energy consumption low too). The final optimized design is then reviewed and printed.

[@MannequinOngaku]

Andrés Gómez Emilsson damn, that's crazy.

[@Nemesis_T_Type]

They pray to Jesus or Allah 3x a day. /s

[@andrewgoodrick9958]

It's annoying how this is just a series of images, with all of the "zooming" sequences just being an enlargement of the image until you skip to the next image

[@plaguedoct0r]

I half expected a scream at the end. KZbin has conditioned me :S

[@mahendrachettri6572]

I still can't get my head around how they built a complex circuit in such a small space...

[@Uvisir]

A photolithography print is UV:ed onto a chemically cleaned and chemically doped surface called "wafer" that is a slice from a silicone crystal "ingot" that has been grown in an oven and manipulated on the atomic level to be structurally correct via a chemical processes. After the photolithograph print is done lots of more layers are printed again and again to form the circuit connectors in the right order. All the physical and logical design is done is programs like Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Xilinx, Keysight ADS, Keysight IC-Cap, Synopsys Advanced TCAD, Silvaco TCAD 3D, Silvaco AMS, GTS TCAD Framework and QuantumWise ATK, OOMMF, QCADesigner, Spice3f5, BSIM4, MagicVLSI and QuantumEspresso. It's an automated process in a high class clean room environment with over 100+ different steps to come to the end result. Different machines that process the wafer are responsible for the printing, cleaning, testing and verification (usually after each step). The factory's that makes these wafers and manufacture them are called "Fabs". Usually on a wafer there are several hundreds of thousands of copies of the same microchip design that are later cutted into small pieces like the one we see here in this film. It's all sweat and blood from thousands of engineers all over the world that make this happen. Once you understand the process it's not that strange and actually makes sense. Some of the companys that make the machines that make the photolithography prints are ASML Holdings, Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA Corp. Enjoy your reading!

[@itwasaliens]

How much information could be stored if you scaled a microchip up until 1 micron was equal to a mm or cm.