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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8 mo on HNThe Extreme Engineering of ASML’s EUV Light Source
4 mo on HNHow does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠
3 mo on HNThe $200M Machine that Prints Microchips: The EUV Photolithography System
4 mo on HNHow a transistor works
3 mo on HNThe Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
2 mo on HNWhy Russia Can’t Replace TSMC
2 mo on HNWhere The Real Chip Shortage Is
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 HNHow Japan Learned Semiconductors
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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