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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7 mo on HNWhy It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
5 mo on HNThe man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
4 mo on HNThe Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level
3 mo on HNWhy The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips
3 mo on HNBirth of The Transistor: A video history of Japan's electronic industry. (Part 1)
2 mo on HNHow Semiconductors Ruined East Germany
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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