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.
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18 mo on HNIndistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
8 mo on HNThe Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source
8 mo on HNJim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70
7 mo on HNWhy It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
5 mo on HN38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance
5 mo on HNThe man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
4 mo on HNHow does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠
4 mo on HN"Z2" - Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips
3 mo on HNThe $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System
4 mo on HNHow a transistor works
3 mo on HN36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware
3 mo on HNDefcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way
3 mo on HN[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙♂️
3 mo on HNThe Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
3 mo on HN27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)
3 mo on HNMorris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang
3 mo on HNEtching small patterns in Glass
3 mo on HNBirth of The Transistor: A video history of Japan's electronic industry. (Part 1)
3 mo on HNHomebrew NMOS Transistor Step by Step - So Easy Even Jeri Can Do It
2 mo on HNHomemade Transistor Demonstration
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape
2 mo on HNReading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits
2 mo on HNHow Semiconductors Ruined East Germany
2 mo on HNHow are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps
2 mo on HNIndia's Semiconductor Failure
1 mo on HNAntique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks: Super tiny tax form
1 mo on HNHow Japan Learned Semiconductors
1 mo on HNChange w/ Jim Keller
1 mo on HNExperiences Building Edge TPU with Chisel
0 mo on HNWhy all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)
0 mo on HNMaking Microchips at Home - Cooking with Jeri Part1
0 mo on HN