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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.

Talk×
18 mo on HN

Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

Andor Gafotas
Recommended 19× on HN · 2016–2024
8 mo on HN

Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead

UC Berkeley EECS
Recommended 7× on HN · 2019–2025
5 mo on HN

38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance

media.ccc.de
Recommended 5× on HN · 2025–2026
5 mo on HN

AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton

Amazon Web Services
Recommended 5× on HN · 2016–2023
3 mo on HN

36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware

media.ccc.de
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Defcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way

HackersOnBoard
Recommended 3× on HN · 2014–2025
3 mo on HN

27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)

Christiaan008
Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2021
2 mo on HN

Sophie Wilson - The Future of Microprocessors

Erlang Solutions
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2018
2 mo on HN

Reading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits

HACKADAY
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2021
1 mo on HN

[FOSSi Dial-Up] Tim Ansell - Skywater PDK: Fully open source manufacturable PDK for a 130nm process

FOSSi Foundation
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Change w/ Jim Keller

Tenstorrent
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2023
1 mo on HN

Experiences Building Edge TPU with Chisel

Chisel
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025

Also discussed on Hacker News (5)

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