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Go to http://brilliant.org/BranchEducation/ for a 30-day free trial and expand your knowledge. Use this link to get a 20% discount on their annual premium membership. 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.   / brancheducation   Website: https://www.branch.education On Facebook:   / brancheducation   Shoutout to Asianometry YouTube channel    / @asianometry  . This YouTube channel is filled with tons of information on the semiconductor industry, and Microchip Fabs. 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.com/il/e… https://www.tel.com/product/all/index… 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 #Microchip #Manufacturing #CPU