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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.

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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
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
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
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

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

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

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

Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks: Super tiny tax form

Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

How Japan Learned Semiconductors

Asianometry
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Change w/ Jim Keller

Tenstorrent
1 HN recommend · 2023–2023
1 mo on HN

Experiences Building Edge TPU with Chisel

Chisel
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
0 mo on HN

Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)

Steve Mould
0 HN recommender · 2022–2024
0 mo on HN

Making Microchips at Home - Cooking with Jeri Part1

Jeri Ellsworth
0 HN recommender · 2014–2023
0 mo on HN

Speedrunning 30yrs of lithography technology

Breaking Taps
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025