Semiconductors & chip manufacturing Videos Recommended on Hacker News (42)
Semiconductors & chip manufacturing is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 42 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
8 mo on HNJim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead
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
5 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton
4 mo on HNHow does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠
4 mo on HN"Z2" - Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips
4 mo on HNThe Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level
4 mo on HNBuilding a 6800 CPU on an FPGA with nMigen (part 1)
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 HNWhy The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips
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 HNWhy Russia Can’t Replace TSMC
2 mo on HNWhere The Real Chip Shortage Is
2 mo on HNSophie Wilson - The Future of Microprocessors
2 mo on HNReading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits
2 mo on HNHow Semiconductors Ruined East Germany
2 mo on HNChina's 7nm Chips: SMIC N+2
2 mo on HNHow are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps
2 mo on HNIndia's Semiconductor Failure
1 mo on HNUnveiling High NA EUV | ASML
1 mo on HN14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is - Visiting Tescan Part 3/3
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Mentioned in HN threads about semiconductors & chip manufacturing, though never formally recommended:
Making Microchips at Home - Cooking with Jeri Part1 · Dr. Chris Mack Toasts the End of Moore's Law at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014 · Building AI Silicon · Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels) · Speedrunning 30yrs of lithography technology