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Working at ASML, every time someone asks where I'm working, I have to spend 10-15 minutes explaining what we are doing and still getting a blank stare. I am looking forward to a general public getting more awareness of what we are doing. Thank you for the content.
@LinusTechTips @ASMLcompany this was a beautiful collaboration for a small insight into chip development. As a engineering student, this was amazing and very inspiring to see!
I can't imagine how much behind the scenes work has to go into these manufacturing tours. It's such great content, but I know these companies are paranoid about protecting their secrets.
Only that in this case I'm not sure how paranoid they actually are. I feel like this might be justified given that teh knowledge and technology they possess is literally one of the most sought after in the world
4:13 Interesting fact - like ASML/Netherlands is the only company building this machines - Zeiss/Germany is the only company able to make the mirrors they use. Somebody said if either of these companies stop to exist from one day to another it would throw the industry back for about 10-15 years until they would be able to reach again the same level of technology.
This is my second year interning at ASML in the Wilton CT campus. My mind is blown every single day by the new facts I learn about our processes and specifications. The publicly available information is impressive until you get an inside look and realize that everything ASML does pushes the border of what humanity thought/thinks is possible. I wish every nerd like me could experience the days and days of thought that these machines provoke. Truly the pinnacle of technology. I used to work in the aerospace industry and lithography has completely blown that out of the water in terms of complexity, difficulty, and also satisfaction
"everything ASML does pushes the border of what humanity thought/thinks is possible" I keep telling people this EUV Litho tech is basically sci-fi level technology. 😆
There is some really high end aerospace stuff too. The big difference with lithography is that it doesn't just have to work in a lab or small scale system. It has to be in ultra large volume production, where every minute lost can cost millions. It's like building a racecard that can go 10 laps VS one that can go 24/7
These EUV machines are quite probably one of the most remarkable feats of human engineering in existence right now. Just assembling one seems like an impossible challenge, never mind designing it.
Seriously, sometimes just the putting together and dismantling can be a task in itself literal weeks in some cases I have multiple friends who work with some amazing companies putting literally master piece machine's together but it always makes me laugh when someone looks down on them for working a "Assembly" job. But I can guarantee that him and his team that work on these kinds of machines for companies probably could do brain surgery/heart if they racked there minds about it, seriously most informative absorbing and most steady hands I've ever met lmao
@@Drogenkurier88 that will never work. I used a 1 watt laser (crazy amount of power!) and amplified it a few times to get the megawatts of pulsed laser power. 😆
i can just imagine ASML: Sure you can come....under one condition. Linus Sebastian Stays home Alex: All Good we will send our best man for the job, Sinus Lebastian ASML: Perfect, Cant Wait to meet him Linus Sebastian with a Funny hat and glasses: Hello, im Sinus Lebastian, Nice to meet you!
I work at Blokker, we supply the plates and cutlery that is used to serve the food in the ASML cafeteria. So proud to be a vital cog in the machine that creates this mind boggling technology. Without us, they couldn't do it, not with a filled belly anyhow, and the world might still be using a Pentium!
Joe be quiet no one wants to hear from the janitor lol everyone knows you have been stealing the tea bags from the break room have fun getting paid 25$ an hour, maybe one day Sandra will give you a promotion 😂
Alex really follows in Linus’ strengths, they can give a completely understandable and easy to follow talk about advanced technology and also will do the funniest “not dumb if it works” stuff with just as much passion. Alex is my fave ❤
True but I don't think ltt is going to just send staff to the Netherlands if asml would even let them in there. Fun fact also it's located in Veldhoven and most of the people that live there work at asml
I work for a company that supplies some of the equipment they use. I love working with them, but holy shit their tolerances are incredibly tight and their supplier rating system is intense lol.
As an ex employee for a company that did this, this was a wonderful refresher. Companies should contract out to LTT to use this video for training newbies.
@@force_fired556 depending on company and position there’s a range of educational requirements, for basic machine operators for the one I worked at, highschool diploma was all that was needed, up to multiple engineering and different technical degrees for certain positions
@@force_fired556For the people working on the materials science or physics/optics side of research at ASML and the like, you usually need a PhD for really key work. You can still get into engineering positions for the related fields like mechanical engineering, electrical eng, etc. with a bachelor’s though.
It's still crazy how humanity came from tinkering with wood and rocks for tools to building amazing machines like these! I'm excited about the crazy new developments we'll see in the coming years.
@@Djuntas Yes we do although i know only some of the dutch ones . They are A World Leader in Agriculture They are a world leader flood control ( dikes and dams ) They are a world leader in transport infrastructure aka roads. And this is just the netherlands. One would be surprised about the shit the whole of europe is good at. But most of it is unknown cus its shared in the whole of the west / the world
Heard some buzz a few months ago that LTT had stopped by... Awesome video! Proud to be a part of ASML and work out in the field on these crazy machines!!
why exactly was Alex, a mechanical engineer, who has over and over shown that he understands very very little about electrical engineering, chosen as a host? So many better suited LTT people available.
@@RandomUser2401 In all fairness to Alex, the machine is wildly complex. I'm a mechanical engineer, and it took me a solid half year to even begin understanding the system- so you really can't blame him for any minor gaffes that came up. He did a great job with what material he was given as far as I'm concerned!
@@blitzspark_ I'm just saying there would be better candidates at LTT for that job. Also quite typical of an NA-focused worldview that San Diego is stressed multiple times but "forgot" to mention that ASML is a Dutch company with heavy influence from German Carl Zeiss company.
It's a shame this video won't perform as well as the average LTT video because these factory tours are amazing and some of the best pieces of content LTT does.
Truly, one of the best videos produced in a LONG time. That's not to say the overall quality, just the explosive amount of information packed in here. Great job.
I can still recall that I got my graduation assignment (offer) at ASML in 2000.... It was already for the EUV machine: i.e. developing an air bearing for a vacuum chamber! TWENTY YEARS BEFORE it came to the market! Talk about development time! I LOVE ASML!
Hey I work on these tools every day! The level of complexity can be mind boggling but there's always something new to learn. No a lot of people know about ASML but we are everywhere.
Learning is so much fun when the teacher is as enthusiastic and knowledgeable as Alex is here. Clearly getting his geek on, having a blast and taking us along for the ride. Thanks Alex!
Have a friend who engineered some stuff with ASML. The design process is insane with engineers working on their parts and versions going up and down the chain of connected parts. At some point, someone hits a stop button - the final design is done and the machine gets build. Being on the cutting edge and staying on the cutting edge is an insane workplace. But I am happy for the chips it produces :D
@@derbigpr500 Software is indeed trivial compared to building an entire assembly with a tolerance stack much much smaller than the thickness of one's hair. Try to split a blade of grass along its thin edge from across an entire football stadium. Software can prove out an approach but it still needs to be done in reality.
I work at TRUMPF, the company who produces the laser and the components who actually generate this UV light (in co-operation with ZEISS and ASML). Its really cool to see this big machines and how this high tech works together to produce our high end chips
@@shipwreck9146 it's really cool. We basically produce one part of the technik which is needed for every highend chip and no one else on the world does it. I mean we also do other stuff, that's just one part of what Trumpf produces. We also produce Laser Machines to cut steel (and other stuff) and also bending machines, metal 3D printers, and more.
It's really Abbe's diffraction limit. The Rayleigh criterion is about what level of contrast you need to differentiate two items (i.e., what part of the air disk is considered a second spot). That's why there's Rayleigh's resolution criterion, Sparrow resolution criterion, etc... Also, so happy that Alex got to see all this. His enthusiasm is infectious.
@@MelroyvandenBerg if the outgassing rate in vacuum is below a certain value set by ASML. They have a total outgassing budget voor the whole machine and they divide it over the machine.
As an investor, Dutchman and cybersecurity expert it's amazing they let you in at all ;) ASML is one of those Dutch stories that still fascinates me. They started in a small shed behind the Philips building, and now 40 years later they are maybe the only company that keeps the modern wordt running without ASML, no iPhones, No GPU's and no CPU's. Or not the fast ones.
@@steveballmersbaldspot2.095 So true, but Philips has been troubled by managment issues for years now, and current problems in the US about their medical breathing machines is also not helping. One of those great companies that have had very poor leadership in the last decade orso. It's a shame.
You guys are probably about the only people who can get into these places while being genuinely interested, media minded and professionally kitted enough to show us it all, without being some watered down education channel or professional angled bore-fest. Sincerely, thanks for making these awesome fab/lab/factory tours, and please please PLEASE keep doing as many as you can! It's so fascinating and awesome!
honestly, before the chip shortage i never thought about manufacturing of chips. but once i started diving a bit into it, i was surprised how ASML was really flying under the radar for many. Everyone depends on it, even more now than ever. and it seems like they have no competitor at all.. shocking really
It's not easy to compete when the tech is proprietary. Yes, anyone can make a computer chip, but to be anywhere near competitive, or even to make modern equivalent chips is incredibly difficult.
It really is like everyone in the west at least decided pooling all the R&D into one project instead of several competing ones was a good idea. and well it worked..
They do have competition, its just that the competition is so far behind its an entirely different market. They have 100% marketshare on leading nodes and 90% of the total litography market.
I was shocked that they didn't blur out 100% of their components during the editing... especially since it's their flagship EUV machine. I was expecting them to even blur out Alex 😂. Wonderful video and was worthy of a higher teir sponsors 😅 but you did it 🎉. 👏
I don't think it's possible to reverse engineer it without some sort of blueprint copies. But it's so important that they have to take all the unnecessary precautionary measures. I mean this machine is so powerful, that even owning a few would make you a critical asset to the rest of the world. E.g TSMC
@@metaleuman the US went a step farther. Even if you knew how to make it, the companies that manufacture the components you need to build it aren't allowed to sell you anything without the blessing of the US. So espionage is not an option
This is probably the best Video for EUV Lithography that exists. I already watched al the videos from ASML, Zeiss and Trumpf and also was doing my own research. This was a great summary. But I want to mention that the work of Trumpf or Zeiss is the true enabler of this technology.
Editing/writing folks did an amazing job getting extra details & clarification into the video that were missing from "on site" spoken audio, awesome video!
Love seeing Alex and Jake in a lot of these videos. They really seem like the front runners of the new guard at LMG. Tons of good people there of course but these 2 just stand out to me in a great way.
12:36 I like that despite all the state of the art tech and tools in this video, there's still a good ol' rubber mallet hanging on that tool rack. Doesn't matter how expensive or complex the equipment you're working on is, because at some point everything eventually needs a bit of percussive maintenance. Tappy tap tap.
Great video, I'm a master student of mechanical engineering with a emphasis in lasertechnologie. Just today i head a lecture on beam shaping (making different patterns with one source of light). Micro mirror arrays where the old technique, the are commonly found in projectors. If one is shaping light with a mirror there is the possibility it's being done with a deformable mirror. One can crate a small dip or hill on the mirror by causing a small charge in a locate. This will focus the light in a controllable way. Another comment use of this is in large telescopes to correct for wave front distortions caused by the atmosphere etc. Sorry for my horrible english I'm from Germany and i didn't learn the correct English vocabulary for this topic :)
Former ASML employee, and current Micro Lithography Product Manager here. These things are absolutely crazy. Thanks for highlighting this tech. I promise to try not to critique too much!
@@cryoratldr of being a product manager is being responsible for the delivery and quality of your product. The way you go about it is different depending on the industry, but generalizing, you have to have a pretty good understanding of production process end-to-end, inputs, your team qualifications and tasks, changes in technology. Comparing to working in a lab, it's less hands:on physical, more whole picture than specific technology, and much more stressful. If there's a problem pr delay with the product, it's your fault no matter what actually caused it, unless it's like an act of God in legal sense, but even then people can and will side eye you. Ps: it's an interesting job, but a pretty thankless one. If something's wrong, you're to blame. But if everything is perfect, well... Do you know the name of the product manager on the first iPhone?
@@LoisoPondohva I know Tony Fadell because I read his book, but I don't know if he was product manager of the iPhone. He played a significant part in making it happen though.
Please more of this content! I find it hard to fathom how humans were able to make something so complex, yet so insanely precise. Thank you for giving us a look at this kind of hardware!
Can’t even fathom the assembly of a behemoth like that. And the amount of work that went into testing and verification of every single component and how the whole thing works together. Insanity
Very detailed and impressive video on how all the tech we take for granted requires such advanced processes and machinery to get manufactured. Always love to see how things work. Great vid as usual
I found interesting that the way the tin nozzle seems to work is really similar to how flow cytometry sorters work: they also use vibration to separate a laminar flow into micro drops that (should) contain single single cells each in order to sort them. The timing for doing that is critical for the sorting to work.
I work for a company that supplies a lot of tech to ASML. It’s so cool to see this video. This machine is literally the future and it’s only going to get better
That was awesome thanks for the video! And a huge thanks to ASML for doing this tour and showing the equipment off! It's always amazing to see the things that people are working on at the cutting edge of technology, the insane extremes that these tools and machines get pushed to, and the kinds of wacky new science people come up with to make them work.
This is so freaking cool. I love the factory and r&d facility tours because I love marveling at the seemingly endless extent of human ingenuity and creative engineering.
Love the factory tours. It's one thing to see how these things work in drawings and diagrams in theory, but seeing the actual massive machines that are required to actually do these things make it so much more impressive and shows the sheer amount of engineering that goes into building these machines.
I have worked on this exact project. The problems they are overcoming are absolutely crazy, really pushing the limits of what they thought was possible when it comes to many of the components
Do you know why the mirror itself is blurred out in the video? I am assuming it is something proprietary about the curve of the mirror or the finish itself, but I am super curious as to why that is redacted out of everything if it just looks like a curved mirror in reality. Cheers!
What I always find fascinating about stuff like this is that every single damn cable and whatever they have there is there for a reason. Nothing is put there for no reason. This is just incredible.
@@faustinpippin9208 Dude that is NOT the point. My point was that these machines are so incredibly complicated with literally thousands of cables and everything and it's just fascinating to me that every single one of them is thoughtfully placed there.
as are most if not all machines that aren't just for show. Just think of the complexity of a modern tractor D: Engineering is cool (although often engineers aren't :p)
@@faustinpippin9208 Often times complicated equipment will leave in redundant components to limit electrical, mechanical, or RF noise. You don't want to rerun testing just to remove a component.
In the late '80s, I worked at a now defunct division of a company more widely known for medical devices and military avionics hardware. That division built wafer fab machines, just as ASML does today. Much of this video is stuff that is familiar to me, but it's also amazing how far the industry has come in a bit more than three decades. Like every other aspect of the "tech" business field, fab systems advance at a much faster rate than other manufacturing systems...
If you think the machines in Cali are surprising, you should try to get a visit to the headquarters in the Netherlands. thats trully some space-age stuff!
3:55 had to blur out the concave mirror to stop people from 'photographing' everything in that room using the reflections and A.I. image reconstruction.
@@MelroyvandenBerg Yep, they have apps engineers on 24/7 call like surgeons would be, ready to hop on the next flight to wherever the tool is located to do maintenance. Every minute counts when your throughput is over 200 wafers per hour at up to $20,000 per completed wafer... they have also phased in augmented reality to allow for even faster troubleshooting and returning the tool to a productive state ua-cam.com/video/oOthh227aDs/v-deo.html
I work in photolithography and it’s cool to see them touching the surface of what we do. Only a few companies in the world working with these EUV machines. They are awesome.
A couple questions: What degree do you have? (I graduated in December with an AS in engineering, a BS in physics, and minors in math and astronomy. I'm not sure if the market is just bad right now, or if I'm applying for the wrong jobs, but it has been a rough time trying to get a job.) Did you go straight into photolithography? Or did you start at a lower level position?
This is INSANE! The amount of engineering, physics, chemistry and science in general that goes into this process and how complicated everything is. This place makes me realise we are living in the future and would blow a victorian childs head off... also shout out to William Osman for his homemade Xray haha :p
From one Alex to another this was brilliant to watch Alex, kudos to you! The LTT community is just beautiful there's so much knowledge & it's always a pleasure to watch. Every day is a learning day indeed! ^_^
I used to work on laser printers as a part of computer field service. I felt almost at home seeing this hardware. Being long time retired I still miss the high tech environment terribly.
Awesome video. My uncle leads this project and it’s amazing to see renderings of what exactly he describes when he comes down to Texas. I was really hoping he’d make it in the video. I still have a chunk of incredibly pure tin sitting on my windowsill from when he let me tour the lab.
I start working on Zeiss in less than a month. Ngl it was really exciting to see you guys use their videos and talk about them. Now I am even more excited:))) Great video:)))
I'm not closely smart enough to understand anything that been explained, but I love this kind of videos and appreciate how mind-blowingly impressive this stuff is. Good job Alex 👍
Making processors has always seemed like magic to me. I never thought about the fact that someone had to make the tools to even be able to do that and what kind of magic would be used to make those tools.
Because it really is, like even if an engineer were to do their best in explaining. The tech still sounds like magic. If humans really truly created this, then something is truly broken about us. Cause how can we do this and yet not fix other problems.
These machines are quite literally the most complex machines made by man. I wonder how many people work on the R&D side to make this sort of thing happen.
ASLM is scooping up every engineer and scientist they can from across the world from what I have read! They also seem to be very accommodating too and the workers seem happy. They'll pop up in the comments I'm sure. They did not get to where they are by resting on their laurels. They seem to invest all the money they make back into the company from what I have seen. They have no choice because everyone wants to be them but it would cost billions upon billions for everyone to catch up. They are already planning what will surpass this. The founders are especially passionate about what they do and I find them to be really entertaining when they speak about their machines. They are extremely proud as they should be.
Not to mention all the subcontractors. If you take a technology company in and around Eindhoven, there is a big chance one of their biggest customers is ASML. There to build some obscure part of the incredibly complex machine.
I cannot speak for the American tech industry but here in Sweden many of our large chemical industrial plants do not claim patents for their inventions, they explained the reasoning for this to me a few years back. Because Chinese industry so indiscriminately steal IP without repercussion it is not safe to claim patent of your inventions as this forces you to publish an explanation of how your inventions works to the patents office. Chinese industry, according to the people working at plants such as Nouryon, will then scour the patents office for new inventions and outright steal them from there. Because of this, (in Sweden) patents often aren't applied for, rather they are kept very closely guarded company secrets. This in turn explains why companies are so incredibly paranoid, they might not even have the patent claims to their IP's and as such a leak could be catastrophical.
English is not my native language but I believe lithography doesn't build PC's. It's a technology to build chips of of which you build PC's. As far as I know, I've been building my PC's like always. Otherwise, as an analogy. Car builders don't build cars because their engine is made out of honey and produced by bees .... Very interesting video nevertheless !
4:45 Funny, I once was in a Trumpf factory (Ditzingen, Germany) where someone melted an apple with a 10kW CO² laser in like 3 seconds. These lasers are scary but they build even bigger lasers, some requiring millions of Watts to run at all ^^
I just want to take this time to thank everyone for all the leather. Up 25% today, I'm up 2 billion dollars. This tells me that I should continue raising the prices on videocards, or keep releasing par performing videocards for a premium price.
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Someone is gonna bust those dance moves
Agggg, I'm on the floor...
Working at ASML, every time someone asks where I'm working, I have to spend 10-15 minutes explaining what we are doing and still getting a blank stare. I am looking forward to a general public getting more awareness of what we are doing. Thank you for the content.
Just say: we make the machines that make the chips in your phone. No more us, no more chips, no more phones. That will make them in awe of you.
You meet the wrong people, then. Had it been me, you'd have gotten a stare of awe.
can you ELI5 please? 😅
@@Ozymandias1 Yeah that's pretty much what I say when people ask. Or, "you've heard of TSMC? That's our customer."
Lookout for incoming Chinese Honey-Pot
It was great and super fun to have you over! Thanks for this great video, love it! 👌
Sheesh you guys are cool
@LinusTechTips @ASMLcompany this was a beautiful collaboration for a small insight into chip development. As a engineering student, this was amazing and very inspiring to see!
Next time overseas we’re the magic magic happens 😇😎
Good stuff, ASML!
any information on the quantum tunneling problem ?
I can't imagine how much behind the scenes work has to go into these manufacturing tours. It's such great content, but I know these companies are paranoid about protecting their secrets.
It's Blur the movie
Only that in this case I'm not sure how paranoid they actually are. I feel like this might be justified given that teh knowledge and technology they possess is literally one of the most sought after in the world
@@gamewatcher2712 legal and pr would differ.
@@gamewatcher2712 paranoia is still paranoia, even if it's justified.
Thanks to LTT
4:13 Interesting fact - like ASML/Netherlands is the only company building this machines - Zeiss/Germany is the only company able to make the mirrors they use. Somebody said if either of these companies stop to exist from one day to another it would throw the industry back for about 10-15 years until they would be able to reach again the same level of technology.
That kind of makes you think though. Having a single point of failure is usually not a good thing.
Work at Zeiss. We basically build the heart of this SMT production
@@ArielNMz Yes, cause the private healthcare system of the US is a shining example of not getting the government involved. /lol
@@Nightykk Yes, cause the public healthcare system of the UK is a shining example of getting the government involved. /lol
@@Michael-pr8wl oh it was, but then came Margaret Thatcher
This is my second year interning at ASML in the Wilton CT campus. My mind is blown every single day by the new facts I learn about our processes and specifications. The publicly available information is impressive until you get an inside look and realize that everything ASML does pushes the border of what humanity thought/thinks is possible. I wish every nerd like me could experience the days and days of thought that these machines provoke. Truly the pinnacle of technology.
I used to work in the aerospace industry and lithography has completely blown that out of the water in terms of complexity, difficulty, and also satisfaction
The Chinese spies in the comments: go on 🧐
"everything ASML does pushes the border of what humanity thought/thinks is possible"
I keep telling people this EUV Litho tech is basically sci-fi level technology. 😆
This definitely looks so much further out there then even quite high-end aerospace research.
There is some really high end aerospace stuff too. The big difference with lithography is that it doesn't just have to work in a lab or small scale system. It has to be in ultra large volume production, where every minute lost can cost millions. It's like building a racecard that can go 10 laps VS one that can go 24/7
@@thorwaldjohanson2526 Industrial F1 cars doing 24 Hours of Le Mans 7 days a week.
These EUV machines are quite probably one of the most remarkable feats of human engineering in existence right now. Just assembling one seems like an impossible challenge, never mind designing it.
its not a big deal i have one in my backyard made from cardboard, hot glue and an old camera
Seriously, sometimes just the putting together and dismantling can be a task in itself literal weeks in some cases I have multiple friends who work with some amazing companies putting literally master piece machine's together but it always makes me laugh when someone looks down on them for working a "Assembly" job.
But I can guarantee that him and his team that work on these kinds of machines for companies probably could do brain surgery/heart if they racked there minds about it, seriously most informative absorbing and most steady hands I've ever met lmao
@@Drogenkurier88 that will never work. I used a 1 watt laser (crazy amount of power!) and amplified it a few times to get the megawatts of pulsed laser power. 😆
200 million bucks worth of materials and manpower.
Making it transportable by air AND THEN usable is something else altogether.
Company: "We've had nearly 900 days without a workplace accident!"
*LTT is visiting*
Company: "Oh crap"
That is why they only allowed in Alex and not Linus. ;)
@@tristanwegner Linus would only break *stuff*, not people. Granted, breaking people would probably cheaper given how cutting-edge they are.
And that's exactly why Linus wasn't there😂
Probably why they couldn't come to Veldhoven 😂
i can just imagine
ASML: Sure you can come....under one condition. Linus Sebastian Stays home
Alex: All Good we will send our best man for the job, Sinus Lebastian
ASML: Perfect, Cant Wait to meet him
Linus Sebastian with a Funny hat and glasses: Hello, im Sinus Lebastian, Nice to meet you!
As an ASML employee and LTT fan, this is so heartwarming! Great job guys!
how accurate is this
As someone from Trumpf, I am glad someone is actually showing the DL. Usually only the scanner is shown and the subfab is avoided.
Dude I love these videos! What an interesting job, I hope you all get good working conditions and a nice culture, cheers
@@grozaphy 46% accurate.
A random big thanks to all ASML employees for the amazing work on this field and for taking the time to share some of the process with us
I work at Blokker, we supply the plates and cutlery that is used to serve the food in the ASML cafeteria. So proud to be a vital cog in the machine that creates this mind boggling technology. Without us, they couldn't do it, not with a filled belly anyhow, and the world might still be using a Pentium!
Hahaha this is a great comment
Based on the latest news you won't be working there long anymore :) sorry bro
Looking for a new job?
@@jordyblaauw5040 what happened
A lot of Blokkers have been closing their doors over the past few years now. @@sannidhyabalkote9536
Proud to be working at ASML. It's super cool to see this on your channel.
Thanks for being a part of the most amazing company on Earth! You are the people that in turn, make... Everything! 🤘💜
been applying at asml in veldhoven these past weeks, i'm hyped.
Hello fellow employee
Joe be quiet no one wants to hear from the janitor lol everyone knows you have been stealing the tea bags from the break room have fun getting paid 25$ an hour, maybe one day Sandra will give you a promotion 😂
@@screamified409 Good luck friend! I will try to get in there too.
Alex is always so happy and into whatever he is doing!! i love it!!
Agreed. Although it is a mystery what exactly he is doing here we are happy for him nonetheless.
Just here to comment, i agreed
True
Alex and Anthony are my 2 favourite presenters.
Thats how people who are actually passionate about their job act like, yes hes great to watch
I love this kind of content. Fun and factual. Alex has become a great host over the years. His enthusiasm is really enjoyable to watch.
He's always been my favorite. If Alex is in the video I know it will be a good one, even if it's very janky
@@kevin7649 *Especially* if it's janky
@@kevin7649 Most videos from Linus and Alex can be summarized by "It'll be fine, send it", content gold
Alex really follows in Linus’ strengths, they can give a completely understandable and easy to follow talk about advanced technology and also will do the funniest “not dumb if it works” stuff with just as much passion. Alex is my fave ❤
This is next level factory tour. Never thought LTT would go to ASML. This is not just another fab, this is the motherland of fab.
The real motherland is the netherlands tough. This is just a small department
True but I don't think ltt is going to just send staff to the Netherlands if asml would even let them in there. Fun fact also it's located in Veldhoven and most of the people that live there work at asml
This is a fab fab
No its not. The motherland of fab is Intel or tsmc. This is a r&d fab
I work for a company that supplies some of the equipment they use. I love working with them, but holy shit their tolerances are incredibly tight and their supplier rating system is intense lol.
As an ex employee for a company that did this, this was a wonderful refresher. Companies should contract out to LTT to use this video for training newbies.
What education is needed to work in a company like this?
@@force_fired556 depending on company and position there’s a range of educational requirements, for basic machine operators for the one I worked at, highschool diploma was all that was needed, up to multiple engineering and different technical degrees for certain positions
@@force_fired556For the people working on the materials science or physics/optics side of research at ASML and the like, you usually need a PhD for really key work. You can still get into engineering positions for the related fields like mechanical engineering, electrical eng, etc. with a bachelor’s though.
It's still crazy how humanity came from tinkering with wood and rocks for tools to building amazing machines like these! I'm excited about the crazy new developments we'll see in the coming years.
Yeah, it's mind blowing that this can even be created.
And yet we still kill each other
@@TheGargalonand lol 😂
Ever since this was mentioned on WAN, I've been so looking forward to this. Can't believe you guys got to go to an ASML facility!
We Europeans as well happy to have cutting edge company as well. We don't have much that's so far beyond any other competition.
@@Djuntas Yep! When i see this, i'm proud to be living in the Netherlands! 😃👍
@@Djuntas Yes we do although i know only some of the dutch ones .
They are A World Leader in Agriculture
They are a world leader flood control ( dikes and dams )
They are a world leader in transport infrastructure aka roads.
And this is just the netherlands.
One would be surprised about the shit the whole of europe is good at.
But most of it is unknown cus its shared in the whole of the west / the world
@@dragnar12 we're talking about Companies.
@@dragnar12 Were you instrumental in doing any of that? If not, then what are you so proud of?
Heard some buzz a few months ago that LTT had stopped by... Awesome video! Proud to be a part of ASML and work out in the field on these crazy machines!!
why exactly was Alex, a mechanical engineer, who has over and over shown that he understands very very little about electrical engineering, chosen as a host? So many better suited LTT people available.
Engineer or Physicist, Blitz?
@@RandomUser2401 In all fairness to Alex, the machine is wildly complex. I'm a mechanical engineer, and it took me a solid half year to even begin understanding the system- so you really can't blame him for any minor gaffes that came up. He did a great job with what material he was given as far as I'm concerned!
@@bryandelahoz6063 I'm just a lowly engineer, but hey, at least I get to see the entire system and work on it which is a huge plus!!
@@blitzspark_ I'm just saying there would be better candidates at LTT for that job. Also quite typical of an NA-focused worldview that San Diego is stressed multiple times but "forgot" to mention that ASML is a Dutch company with heavy influence from German Carl Zeiss company.
Going to be working at ASML Veldhoven over the winter and seeing the things that they make is honestly amazing. Actually fantastic work.
You study at the TU/e as well?
I weld cooler for ASML lol. It's one of those stainless steel coolers.
Hi future colleague
I did tech support and worked at a few rooms there. The building is INSANE and the food is great lmao
Welcome to Veldhoven!
It's a shame this video won't perform as well as the average LTT video because these factory tours are amazing and some of the best pieces of content LTT does.
1,2 million views lol
@@djinthemixxX Still less than most other videos to be fair.
Truly, one of the best videos produced in a LONG time. That's not to say the overall quality, just the explosive amount of information packed in here. Great job.
I can still recall that I got my graduation assignment (offer) at ASML in 2000.... It was already for the EUV machine: i.e. developing an air bearing for a vacuum chamber! TWENTY YEARS BEFORE it came to the market! Talk about development time! I LOVE ASML!
Hey I work on these tools every day! The level of complexity can be mind boggling but there's always something new to learn. No a lot of people know about ASML but we are everywhere.
ASML is probably one of the most important companies ever. I'm just so highly fascinated by them and also sad that so much is censored.
The fab tours have been SO cool! Very nice of these places to let you have a peek and let you share it with us.
Learning is so much fun when the teacher is as enthusiastic and knowledgeable as Alex is here. Clearly getting his geek on, having a blast and taking us along for the ride. Thanks Alex!
Have a friend who engineered some stuff with ASML. The design process is insane with engineers working on their parts and versions going up and down the chain of connected parts. At some point, someone hits a stop button - the final design is done and the machine gets build.
Being on the cutting edge and staying on the cutting edge is an insane workplace. But I am happy for the chips it produces :D
The amount of engineering that went into all of this is insane
@@MelroyvandenBerg Software is engineering. That's why we call it software engineering.
@@MelroyvandenBerg Software is a joke compared to hardware.
@@derbigpr500 Software is indeed trivial compared to building an entire assembly with a tolerance stack much much smaller than the thickness of one's hair. Try to split a blade of grass along its thin edge from across an entire football stadium. Software can prove out an approach but it still needs to be done in reality.
This is by far the highest degree of quality content I could ask for. Thanks so much Alex and all of LTT!!!
I work at TRUMPF, the company who produces the laser and the components who actually generate this UV light (in co-operation with ZEISS and ASML). Its really cool to see this big machines and how this high tech works together to produce our high end chips
I always wondered what they did.
What's it like working at TRUMPF? Working with lasers would basically be my dream.
@@shipwreck9146 it's really cool. We basically produce one part of the technik which is needed for every highend chip and no one else on the world does it. I mean we also do other stuff, that's just one part of what Trumpf produces. We also produce Laser Machines to cut steel (and other stuff) and also bending machines, metal 3D printers, and more.
@@fightdoc357 Ah, That sounds super awesome!
I should apply there haha.
It's really Abbe's diffraction limit. The Rayleigh criterion is about what level of contrast you need to differentiate two items (i.e., what part of the air disk is considered a second spot). That's why there's Rayleigh's resolution criterion, Sparrow resolution criterion, etc... Also, so happy that Alex got to see all this. His enthusiasm is infectious.
@@evilleader1991 who, alex?
Cool to see LTT at ASML, especially because I work closely with ASML because they use our machines to measure how clean their parts are.
@@MelroyvandenBerg if the outgassing rate in vacuum is below a certain value set by ASML. They have a total outgassing budget voor the whole machine and they divide it over the machine.
How do your machines work?
As an investor, Dutchman and cybersecurity expert it's amazing they let you in at all ;) ASML is one of those Dutch stories that still fascinates me. They started in a small shed behind the Philips building, and now 40 years later they are maybe the only company that keeps the modern wordt running without ASML, no iPhones, No GPU's and no CPU's. Or not the fast ones.
It's also funny (and kinda sad) how a lot of the technology spearheaded by Phillips only really takes off once they sell/spin it off.
@@steveballmersbaldspot2.095 So true, but Philips has been troubled by managment issues for years now, and current problems in the US about their medical breathing machines is also not helping. One of those great companies that have had very poor leadership in the last decade orso. It's a shame.
@@TheMx5Channel Phillips are dead and they sold their name
@@TheMx5Channel Last decade? make that at least three decades. Moving the head office can be good starting point.
@@steveballmersbaldspot2.095 they couldn't compete with cheap Chinese ripoffs
You guys are probably about the only people who can get into these places while being genuinely interested, media minded and professionally kitted enough to show us it all, without being some watered down education channel or professional angled bore-fest.
Sincerely, thanks for making these awesome fab/lab/factory tours, and please please PLEASE keep doing as many as you can! It's so fascinating and awesome!
I feel relieved a video like this came out. I work at ASML and I can definitely use this video to show people what I work on.
honestly, before the chip shortage i never thought about manufacturing of chips. but once i started diving a bit into it, i was surprised how ASML was really flying under the radar for many. Everyone depends on it, even more now than ever. and it seems like they have no competitor at all.. shocking really
It's not easy to compete when the tech is proprietary.
Yes, anyone can make a computer chip, but to be anywhere near competitive, or even to make modern equivalent chips is incredibly difficult.
It really is like everyone in the west at least decided pooling all the R&D into one project instead of several competing ones was a good idea. and well it worked..
Does asml have competition in this market?
Yep. They have a collection of the worlds finest minds.
They do have competition, its just that the competition is so far behind its an entirely different market. They have 100% marketshare on leading nodes and 90% of the total litography market.
I was shocked that they didn't blur out 100% of their components during the editing... especially since it's their flagship EUV machine. I was expecting them to even blur out Alex 😂.
Wonderful video and was worthy of a higher teir sponsors 😅 but you did it 🎉. 👏
blur everything film in linus basement pretend its tour of pentagon
I'm pretty sure even if someone were to try to reverse engineer it they wouldn't be able to figure it
I'm sure it's easy for corporate espionage to get pictures of the facility/machines, but I don't think that would help with anything at all.
I don't think it's possible to reverse engineer it without some sort of blueprint copies. But it's so important that they have to take all the unnecessary precautionary measures.
I mean this machine is so powerful, that even owning a few would make you a critical asset to the rest of the world.
E.g TSMC
@@metaleuman the US went a step farther. Even if you knew how to make it, the companies that manufacture the components you need to build it aren't allowed to sell you anything without the blessing of the US. So espionage is not an option
In the case of ASML i'm proud to be Dutch !
As always a good video, really enjoying Alex as a host.
Do you not have accomplishments of your own to be proud of?
@@jb76489 It's called patriotism.
when are you not? >:(
Weren't ASML part of Phillips initially?
@@gamekiller3343_official sounds stupid as hell tbh
This is probably the best Video for EUV Lithography that exists. I already watched al the videos from ASML, Zeiss and Trumpf and also was doing my own research. This was a great summary.
But I want to mention that the work of Trumpf or Zeiss is the true enabler of this technology.
Editing/writing folks did an amazing job getting extra details & clarification into the video that were missing from "on site" spoken audio, awesome video!
Love seeing Alex and Jake in a lot of these videos. They really seem like the front runners of the new guard at LMG. Tons of good people there of course but these 2 just stand out to me in a great way.
12:36 I like that despite all the state of the art tech and tools in this video, there's still a good ol' rubber mallet hanging on that tool rack. Doesn't matter how expensive or complex the equipment you're working on is, because at some point everything eventually needs a bit of percussive maintenance. Tappy tap tap.
Great video,
I'm a master student of mechanical engineering with a emphasis in lasertechnologie.
Just today i head a lecture on beam shaping (making different patterns with one source of light).
Micro mirror arrays where the old technique, the are commonly found in projectors.
If one is shaping light with a mirror there is the possibility it's being done with a deformable mirror. One can crate a small dip or hill on the mirror by causing a small charge in a locate.
This will focus the light in a controllable way.
Another comment use of this is in large telescopes to correct for wave front distortions caused by the atmosphere etc.
Sorry for my horrible english I'm from Germany and i didn't learn the correct English vocabulary for this topic :)
Thank you for the info, it was perfectly understandable! I studied a bit about this stuff in a Nanoscience master's degree, it's really fascinating.
13:15 When Alex knocks that zip-tie. 200Mil damage right there.
Former ASML employee, and current Micro Lithography Product Manager here. These things are absolutely crazy. Thanks for highlighting this tech. I promise to try not to critique too much!
What does a Product Manager do and how is it compared to working in the lab?
@@cryoratldr of being a product manager is being responsible for the delivery and quality of your product. The way you go about it is different depending on the industry, but generalizing, you have to have a pretty good understanding of production process end-to-end, inputs, your team qualifications and tasks, changes in technology.
Comparing to working in a lab, it's less hands:on physical, more whole picture than specific technology, and much more stressful. If there's a problem pr delay with the product, it's your fault no matter what actually caused it, unless it's like an act of God in legal sense, but even then people can and will side eye you.
Ps: it's an interesting job, but a pretty thankless one. If something's wrong, you're to blame. But if everything is perfect, well... Do you know the name of the product manager on the first iPhone?
@@LoisoPondohva I know Tony Fadell because I read his book, but I don't know if he was product manager of the iPhone. He played a significant part in making it happen though.
Please more of this content! I find it hard to fathom how humans were able to make something so complex, yet so insanely precise. Thank you for giving us a look at this kind of hardware!
and yet we mainly spend our energy and grey matter on collecting shiny things and blowing each other up over sky fairies.
@@jeremyglover5541Thats where muricans come in they only blow countries up for their true god,the dolla
This is super cool! I work at ASML Wilton and everything we do is just fascinating. Especially the future gen stuff ;)
Seeing how all this comes together is so overwhelming, it's amazing. Amazing work Alex and man is ASML ever insanely impressive!
Can’t even fathom the assembly of a behemoth like that. And the amount of work that went into testing and verification of every single component and how the whole thing works together. Insanity
Very detailed and impressive video on how all the tech we take for granted requires such advanced processes and machinery to get manufactured. Always love to see how things work. Great vid as usual
I've stuck my head in one of these machines. They're huge! I'm in awe that the installation teams are able to successfully put these things together.
I found interesting that the way the tin nozzle seems to work is really similar to how flow cytometry sorters work: they also use vibration to separate a laminar flow into micro drops that (should) contain single single cells each in order to sort them. The timing for doing that is critical for the sorting to work.
Keep up the extreme tech insights!
I work for a company that supplies a lot of tech to ASML. It’s so cool to see this video. This machine is literally the future and it’s only going to get better
That was awesome thanks for the video! And a huge thanks to ASML for doing this tour and showing the equipment off! It's always amazing to see the things that people are working on at the cutting edge of technology, the insane extremes that these tools and machines get pushed to, and the kinds of wacky new science people come up with to make them work.
ASML is a Dutch company, i'm pretty proud of that :)
Would be nice if they could visit Campus in Veldhoven. State of the art - trust me 😊
same
It makes up for Dr. Evil.
This is so freaking cool. I love the factory and r&d facility tours because I love marveling at the seemingly endless extent of human ingenuity and creative engineering.
amazing! so happy to see a video like this! I would love more videos about chip fabrication, or just more about how the industry works in general!
Love the factory tours. It's one thing to see how these things work in drawings and diagrams in theory, but seeing the actual massive machines that are required to actually do these things make it so much more impressive and shows the sheer amount of engineering that goes into building these machines.
I have worked on this exact project. The problems they are overcoming are absolutely crazy, really pushing the limits of what they thought was possible when it comes to many of the components
Do you know why the mirror itself is blurred out in the video? I am assuming it is something proprietary about the curve of the mirror or the finish itself, but I am super curious as to why that is redacted out of everything if it just looks like a curved mirror in reality. Cheers!
@@ambroseai not exactly I wasn’t involved in that area but will likely be due to the coating finish on there being a certain company’s IP
@@slicktuckers5217 Thank you for taking the time to reply!
What I always find fascinating about stuff like this is that every single damn cable and whatever they have there is there for a reason. Nothing is put there for no reason. This is just incredible.
Why would they put there something useless?
@@faustinpippin9208 Dude that is NOT the point. My point was that these machines are so incredibly complicated with literally thousands of cables and everything and it's just fascinating to me that every single one of them is thoughtfully placed there.
@@Raja995mh33 "Nothing is put there for no reason"
Then next time dont make it sound like its your point....
as are most if not all machines that aren't just for show.
Just think of the complexity of a modern tractor D:
Engineering is cool (although often engineers aren't :p)
@@faustinpippin9208 Often times complicated equipment will leave in redundant components to limit electrical, mechanical, or RF noise. You don't want to rerun testing just to remove a component.
Thank you so much for this awesome vid, absolutely fascinating, thank you to the Lab as well for allowing LTT in for a filmed tour.
My god. This is so alien. We take our devices for granted
In the late '80s, I worked at a now defunct division of a company more widely known for medical devices and military avionics hardware. That division built wafer fab machines, just as ASML does today. Much of this video is stuff that is familiar to me, but it's also amazing how far the industry has come in a bit more than three decades. Like every other aspect of the "tech" business field, fab systems advance at a much faster rate than other manufacturing systems...
ASML is a Dutch companie, and im proud to be Dutch, but to be honest... I think ASML has an alien CEO from Sirius 😅
If you think the machines in Cali are surprising, you should try to get a visit to the headquarters in the Netherlands. thats trully some space-age stuff!
3:55 had to blur out the concave mirror to stop people from 'photographing' everything in that room using the reflections and A.I. image reconstruction.
had to blur out the concave mirror to stop people from 'photographing' everything in that room using the reflections and A.I. image reconstruction.
Oh is that it? I thought the Mirror itself was secret
EUV lithography is pretty insane! Imagine what the manual for that thing looks like!
I guess something like: If it breaks call this number, we come look and maybe take it back to the Netherlands for repair.
So lengthy that even Tolkien would be like, bruh
@@MelroyvandenBerg Yep, they have apps engineers on 24/7 call like surgeons would be, ready to hop on the next flight to wherever the tool is located to do maintenance. Every minute counts when your throughput is over 200 wafers per hour at up to $20,000 per completed wafer... they have also phased in augmented reality to allow for even faster troubleshooting and returning the tool to a productive state ua-cam.com/video/oOthh227aDs/v-deo.html
@@MelroyvandenBerg There's an ASML EUV training center right near TSMC buildings. You're right.
@@entenwood9024 Don't forget the customer will want a loan machine while you fix their machine and compensation for loss of production.
I work in photolithography and it’s cool to see them touching the surface of what we do. Only a few companies in the world working with these EUV machines. They are awesome.
A couple questions:
What degree do you have?
(I graduated in December with an AS in engineering, a BS in physics, and minors in math and astronomy. I'm not sure if the market is just bad right now, or if I'm applying for the wrong jobs, but it has been a rough time trying to get a job.)
Did you go straight into photolithography? Or did you start at a lower level position?
How much science and tech came together to make these modern device we use possible.
With this info I can now make a transistor with my flashlight’s laser, chip makers are trembling in their boots!
This is INSANE! The amount of engineering, physics, chemistry and science in general that goes into this process and how complicated everything is. This place makes me realise we are living in the future and would blow a victorian childs head off... also shout out to William Osman for his homemade Xray haha :p
As a Dutchie, ASML is just ❤
You should do a Dutchie special, ASML, drag barges, WIFI, History of philips, Edgser W. Dijkstra, and so much more❤
I love these industrial tours. Great job Alex, you smashed it out of the park with your presentation.
7:16 You know we're living in the future when liquid tin droplet generator nozzles actually look like sci-fi space laser weapons
From one Alex to another this was brilliant to watch Alex, kudos to you! The LTT community is just beautiful there's so much knowledge & it's always a pleasure to watch.
Every day is a learning day indeed! ^_^
This blew my mind. Thank you for producing such incredible content in an approachable way
I used to work on laser printers as a part of computer field service. I felt almost at home seeing this hardware. Being long time retired I still miss the high tech environment terribly.
Awesome video. My uncle leads this project and it’s amazing to see renderings of what exactly he describes when he comes down to Texas. I was really hoping he’d make it in the video. I still have a chunk of incredibly pure tin sitting on my windowsill from when he let me tour the lab.
I start working on Zeiss in less than a month. Ngl it was really exciting to see you guys use their videos and talk about them. Now I am even more excited:))) Great video:)))
I never thought I'd hear "laser sniping" in an actual scientific explanation.
What's the title of the employee in charge of this process ? . . . . . the Tin Hitman !
I'm not closely smart enough to understand anything that been explained, but I love this kind of videos and appreciate how mind-blowingly impressive this stuff is. Good job Alex 👍
Yeah, it's amazing that a machine like that can even be created.
Making processors has always seemed like magic to me. I never thought about the fact that someone had to make the tools to even be able to do that and what kind of magic would be used to make those tools.
Because it really is, like even if an engineer were to do their best in explaining. The tech still sounds like magic. If humans really truly created this, then something is truly broken about us. Cause how can we do this and yet not fix other problems.
@@jdkingsley6543 it is not magic it is science
As an ASML employee its crazy to be featured on LTT.
a 25kw laser is a terrifying enough proposition let alone TWENTY MEGAWATTS. What a great tour and what a cool video!
Yeah, that is genuinely terrifying. That's 20,000,000,000x more power than one of those laser pointer cat toys.
It's just incomprehensibly powerful.
US military has the 300kW laser and Lockheed Martin is making the 500kW for them.
This just has to be the absolutely coolest video on this whole platform
These machines are quite literally the most complex machines made by man. I wonder how many people work on the R&D side to make this sort of thing happen.
Around 8000 people work for D&E
@@FrankDijkstra Wow, that's more than I expected. But I guess when taking into consideration how complex these machines are it makes sense.
ASLM is scooping up every engineer and scientist they can from across the world from what I have read! They also seem to be very accommodating too and the workers seem happy. They'll pop up in the comments I'm sure.
They did not get to where they are by resting on their laurels. They seem to invest all the money they make back into the company from what I have seen. They have no choice because everyone wants to be them but it would cost billions upon billions for everyone to catch up. They are already planning what will surpass this. The founders are especially passionate about what they do and I find them to be really entertaining when they speak about their machines. They are extremely proud as they should be.
@@FrankDijkstra I think these are old numbers. A quick Google search gave me >14.000, which feels more accurate to me.
Not to mention all the subcontractors. If you take a technology company in and around Eindhoven, there is a big chance one of their biggest customers is ASML. There to build some obscure part of the incredibly complex machine.
I work in the semiconductor industry, love the video :)
The software to plan the chip layout and then plan the etching must be pretty insane as well
Optimizing and validating the layout is also insanely computationally intensive.
Proud to be Dutch! 😊
The fact that it can get hotter than the sun is genuinely insane
Cavitation bubbles also get that hot. A lot of things get absolutely insanely hot but it's just a handful of atoms so it isn't that bad.
I cannot speak for the American tech industry but here in Sweden many of our large chemical industrial plants do not claim patents for their inventions, they explained the reasoning for this to me a few years back.
Because Chinese industry so indiscriminately steal IP without repercussion it is not safe to claim patent of your inventions as this forces you to publish an explanation of how your inventions works to the patents office. Chinese industry, according to the people working at plants such as Nouryon, will then scour the patents office for new inventions and outright steal them from there.
Because of this, (in Sweden) patents often aren't applied for, rather they are kept very closely guarded company secrets.
This in turn explains why companies are so incredibly paranoid, they might not even have the patent claims to their IP's and as such a leak could be catastrophical.
‘Here at ASML we make chip machines’
‘Like… potato chips?!’
‘No, not exactly.’
*every single time*
You meant to say "what the incredibly smart people in The Netherlands have figured out".
You guys were in my neck of the woods and didn't even say hi! *Shame*
English is not my native language but I believe lithography doesn't build PC's. It's a technology to build chips of of which you build PC's. As far as I know, I've been building my PC's like always. Otherwise, as an analogy. Car builders don't build cars because their engine is made out of honey and produced by bees .... Very interesting video nevertheless !
4:45 Funny, I once was in a Trumpf factory (Ditzingen, Germany) where someone melted an apple with a 10kW CO² laser in like 3 seconds.
These lasers are scary but they build even bigger lasers, some requiring millions of Watts to run at all ^^
2:19 the intel meme with 14nm always cracks me up😂
I just want to take this time to thank everyone for all the leather.
Up 25% today, I'm up 2 billion dollars.
This tells me that I should continue raising the prices on videocards, or keep releasing par performing videocards for a premium price.
It's interesting how ASML have basically 0 competition. If a company like Intel or TSMC wants machines, they go to ASML. Always.