The machine that built the chip in this video should mass-humble every human who's ever lived.
ASML's latest EUV lithography system costs $370 million, weighs 180 tons, and requires three Boeing 747s to deliver. It contains over 100,000 individual parts from 5,100 suppliers across 14 countries. It shoots 100,000 molten tin droplets per second with a laser, superheating each one past the temperature of the sun's surface to generate light at a wavelength so short that no natural material on Earth can focus it.
So they had to invent new mirrors. Each one is polished with 100 alternating layers of molybdenum and silicon. The surface tolerance is so extreme that if you scaled a single mirror up to the size of Germany, the tallest imperfection would be 1 millimeter.
Those mirrors took 20 years to develop. The company that makes them, Zeiss, had to build entirely new metrology tools just to confirm the mirrors were flat enough, because no existing measurement instrument on Earth could verify the precision they needed.
The machine prints features at 2 nanometers. That's roughly 10 atoms wide. A human hair is 80,000 nanometers. A red blood cell is 7,000. A single COVID virus particle is 100. These machines are etching functional circuits 50 times smaller than a virus.
TSMC is now mass producing 2nm chips in a Kaohsiung fab so large the cleanroom is twice the size of any competitor's. Each 2nm wafer costs $30,000 to produce. The entire 2026 production run was booked before a single chip shipped. Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, and Qualcomm all reserved capacity years in advance. TSMC is spending $28.6 billion just to build enough fabs to meet demand for this one node.
The chip that comes out of this process is smaller than a fingernail, runs on less power than a light bulb, and contains transistors that wrap gates around nanosheets of silicon only a few atoms thick.
The raw material it started as was sand. The sand cost a fraction of a penny. The civilization that processed it into this started by banging rocks together.
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The Naroditsky family shares the sad news of Daniel’s unexpected passing. Daniel was a talented chess player, educator, and beloved member of the chess community. We ask for privacy as the family grieves.
Someone just shilled me this meme coin:
- 34 trillion supply
- No supply cap
- 1 node
- 25% of supply minted in the last 6 months
- 1% of holders own 30%
- Backed by the U.S. government
Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hours should probably disclose that now.
I’ve been hearing some interesting chatter on the floor.
Disclosure deadline is May 15th. We’re about to learn a few things.
It’s time to ban insider trading in Congress.
Sports betting isn’t just a little hobby—it’s an addiction that’s wrecking families and futures.
The industry is out of control, making it easier than ever to lose everything with just a few taps on your phone. I’ve seen people drown in six-figure debt before their families even find out.
Some of you are gambling away your entire financial future just to watch someone else earn a living. The house always wins, and you are not the exception.
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El teniente Sánchez murio víctima de delincuentes que no debiesen haber entrado jamás a nuestro país. Entre Bachelet, Piñera y Boric han transformado a Chile en el resumidero de la criminalidad hemisférica. El precio lo pagan los chilenos y sus familias. Da mucha, mucha rabia.