E406 - Inside ASML’s $350M Machine That Makes AI Chips

Inside your phone is a microscopic city containing billions of transistors—and manufacturing that city requires technology so extreme it sounds more like astrophysics than engineering.

In this episode of TechDaily.ai, David and Sophia explore the extraordinary story of extreme ultraviolet lithography, or EUV, and the decades-long effort to overcome the physical limits that threatened to bring Moore’s Law to a halt.

For years, chipmakers relied on 193-nanometer deep ultraviolet light to print ever-smaller transistor patterns onto silicon wafers. Eventually, diffraction and the fundamental limits of light made further shrinking nearly impossible. The solu...