The Importance of Taiwan
A small island of 23 million people off the coast of China, smaller than Switzerland and with fewer inhabitants than Texas, hosts the only…
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semiconductor
The City That Made the Microchip
A coastal city in northwestern Taiwan, smaller than Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the place where more than ten per cent of the world’s semiconductors are…
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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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