How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

Branch Education walks through a semiconductor fabrication plant to explain the steps of turning silicon wafers into microchips.

Go to brilliant.org/BranchEducation/ for a 30-day free trial and expand your knowledge. Use this link to get a 20% discount on their annual premium membership. Integrated Circuits, CPUs, GPUs, Systems on a Chip, Microcontroller Chips, and all the other different types of microchips are the brains of all the devices and technology that we use on a daily basis. But have you ever wondered how these microchips are made? Well, in this video, we're going to take a tour of a microchip fabrication plant or fab and walk you through the dozens of steps used to make a microchip. Specifically, we focus on how CPUs are made. CPU, GPU, and Smartphone Microchip manufacturing is a multi-trillion dollar industry, and each factory costs in the tens of billions of dollars. This is an overview of all the processes used to make a microchip, as well as an overview of a microchip factory. We're planning more videos on microchip manufacturing, such as a 3D animated factory tour. This is the MOST complicated video we've made by FAR!! 4 different animators have been working on this video non-stop for the past 5 months, for a total of 1300 hours of research, modeling, script writing, animating, editing, animating again, rendering, and then more editing. Support us on Patreon is you want more videos like this one. patreon.com/brancheducation Website: branch.education On Facebook: facebook.com/BranchEducation/ Shoutout to Asianometry YouTube channel youtube.com/@Asianometry. This YouTube channel is filled with tons of information on the semiconductor industry, and Microchip Fabs. Table of Contents: 00:00 - How are Transistors Manufactured? 02:06 - The nanoscopic processes vs the microchip fab 02:34 - What's inside a CPU? 04:31 - What are FinFet Transistors 05:06 - Imagine Baking a Cake 05:44 - Simplified Steps for Microchip Manufacturing 07:51 - 3D Animated Semiconductor Fabrication Plant Tour 09:54 - Categories of Fabrication Tools 10:26 - Photolithography and Mask Layers 11:52 - EUV Photolithography 13:39 - Deposition Tools 15:02 - Etching Tools 16:02 - Ion Implantation 17:03 - Wafer Cleaning Tools 17:29 - Metrology Tools 18:16 - Detailed Steps for Microchip Fabrication 20:29 - Research and Hours Spent on this Video 22:18 - Silicon Wafer Manufacturing 23:19 - Wafer Testing 23:42 - Binning 24:59 - Explore Brilliant 27:20 - Thank you to Patreon Supporters Key Branches from this video are: How do Computers Work? How do SoCs Work? Animation: Mike Radjabov, Prakash Kakadiya, Adrei Dulay, Parvesh Khatri Research, Script and Editing: Teddy Tablante Twitter: @teddytablante Modeling: Mike Radjabov, Prakash Kakadiya Voice Over: Phil Lee Sound Design: drilu.world/ Sound Effects and Music Editor: Raúl Núñez, David Pinete Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer: Luis Huesca Erratum: Animation built using Blender 4.1 blender.org/ Internet References: WikiChip Fuse fuse.wikich