How Philips Built the Chip Industry
Two of the most strategically important companies in the world — ASML, the Dutch monopoly on the lithography machines that pattern every advanced chip,…
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ASML and the Lithography Monopoly
For nearly thirty years, a single company in the southern Netherlands has been working on a single machine: the extreme ultraviolet lithography scanner. Today,…
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How a Chip Is Made
A modern smartphone contains a chip with more than twenty billion transistors, the smallest features only a few nanometres across, fabricated in a factory…
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