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Semiconductors & chip manufacturing Videos Recommended on Hacker News (47)

Semiconductors & chip manufacturing is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 47 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 155 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Semiconductors: chip fabrication, lithography, ASML, TSMC, transistors, FPGAs, ASIC design, diodes and LEDs, solar cells, how chips are made.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips: “This talk on YouTube is the most in depth explanation of IC manufacuring I have seen. I highly recommend it to anyone, no matter their background.” — an HN commenter, 2018.

18 mo on HN

Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

Andor Gafotas
19 HN recommender · 2016–2024
8 mo on HN

The Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source

Asianometry
11 HN recommender · 2022–2025
8 mo on HN

Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

Lex Fridman
8 HN recommender · 2020–2023
8 mo on HN

Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead

UC Berkeley EECS
7 HN recommender · 2019–2025
7 mo on HN

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Veritasium
10 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HN

38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance

media.ccc.de
5 HN recommender · 2025–2026
5 mo on HN

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

BobbyBroccoli
6 HN recommender · 2022–2023
5 mo on HN

AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton

Amazon Web Services
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
4 mo on HN

How does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠

Branch Education
5 HN recommender · 2022–2023
4 mo on HN

"Z2" - Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips

Sam Zeloof
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HN

The Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level

Seeker
5 HN recommender · 2019–2023
4 mo on HN

Building a 6800 CPU on an FPGA with nMigen (part 1)

Robert Baruch
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HN

The $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System

Branch Education
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
4 mo on HN

How a transistor works

Ben Eater
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware

media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Defcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way

HackersOnBoard
3 HN recommender · 2014–2025
3 mo on HN

[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙‍♂️

TechTechPotato
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HN

The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology

Veritasium
5 HN recommender · 2026–2026
3 mo on HN

27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)

Christiaan008
2 HN recommender · 2014–2021
3 mo on HN

Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips

CNBC
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HN

Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang

Computer History Museum
3 HN recommender · 2012–2023
3 mo on HN

Etching small patterns in Glass

Huygens Optics
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN

Birth of The Transistor: A video history of Japan's electronic industry. (Part 1)

RC286
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
3 mo on HN

Homebrew NMOS Transistor Step by Step - So Easy Even Jeri Can Do It

Jeri Ellsworth
3 HN recommender · 2010–2023
2 mo on HN

Homemade Transistor Demonstration

Jeri Ellsworth
2 HN recommender · 2013–2021
2 mo on HN

Stanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape

Stanford Online
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HN

Why Russia Can’t Replace TSMC

Asianometry
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HN

Where The Real Chip Shortage Is

Asianometry
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN

Sophie Wilson - The Future of Microprocessors

Erlang Solutions
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
2 mo on HN

Reading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits

HACKADAY
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HN

How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany

Asianometry
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HN

China's 7nm Chips: SMIC N+2

Asianometry
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HN

How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

Branch Education
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HN

India's Semiconductor Failure

Asianometry
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN

Unveiling High NA EUV | ASML

ASML
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN

14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is - Visiting Tescan Part 3/3

der8auer
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021