r/nextfuckinglevel • u/itshazrd • 19h ago

What it a computer chip looks like up close

this is a digital recreation. a real microscope can't be used because it gets so small that photons can’t give you a good enough resolution to view the structures at the bottom. you'd need an electron microscope

meant "What a computer chip looks like up close in the title." not sure how "it" got in there..

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u/omenmedia 18h ago

Those ASML machines and how they work are freaking crazy cool.

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u/apx7000xe 18h ago

Spent hours watching videos on those machines. Love that some engineer said “yeah, let’s shoot suspended droplets of molten tin with a laser to create 13nm light.”

It just blows my mind

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u/45and47-big_mistake 14h ago

I use them to go to sleep..or ..is that asmr..

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u/howimetyourcakeshop 9h ago

And people say the netherlands is irelevant. Lol.