Zoom Into a Microchip

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  • Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
  • The inside of a microchip is a mysterious thing. Here, we zoom into a microchip using a digital SLR camera then we transition to a scanning electron microscope, aka SEM. Although this is an older microchip, many of the same principles still apply to microchip design but with much, much smaller structures measured in nanometers instead of microns.
    Learn more:
    Education professionals: www.nisenet.org
    Public audiences: www.whatisnano.org

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  • @bugoobiga
    @bugoobiga 9 лет назад +2886

    I don't know what's more impressive - the microchip, or the machine that makes the microchip

    • @VORTEX203114
      @VORTEX203114 9 лет назад +376

      bugoobiga And YET the machine that made the micro chip was made by a firkin HUMAN!? lool wow

    • @gr1nder07
      @gr1nder07 8 лет назад +163

      or the machine thats made with microchips, both made by people, and has the ability to see and accurately show down to 1 micron?? Could you imagine if you found out that microchip they zoomed into was the same model used to make the SEM? It'd be like chip-ception

    • @justinpatterson7700
      @justinpatterson7700 7 лет назад +92

      To think that we started using computers the size of rooms with vacuum tubes and now we can fit a device that does this same job ( as a vacuum tube) into just twenty nm or less

    • @RazaMK
      @RazaMK 7 лет назад +37

      i wonder if that machine had a micro chip too

    • @rockmandashzero
      @rockmandashzero 6 лет назад +9

      or the microscope.

  • @charlesajones77
    @charlesajones77 3 года назад +798

    As someone who studied computer science in college, I find that the more you know about how computers work, the more astounding it is that they work correctly at all.

    • @mjl1966y
      @mjl1966y 3 года назад +51

      It's all a gift from aliens -- no way the Internet can work without some serious physics bending... voltage change in my PC arrives on the other side of the world intact? mux'd with a million others? Yeah, right. Aliens I tell ya'

    • @t1e6x12
      @t1e6x12 3 года назад +63

      @@mjl1966y I cant tell if youre being serious or not.

    • @YeOldeKamikaze
      @YeOldeKamikaze 3 года назад +16

      Yes. It gives me an insane amount of anxiety thinking of all the parts that could get messed up and the many many many ways things can go wrong, both in software and hardware.

    • @kjellringstrom6217
      @kjellringstrom6217 3 года назад +29

      @@YeOldeKamikaze And to think we have about the same stuff in our heads, trillions of nerve cells working together to makes us what we are.
      thinking of it gives me anxiety, what if something stop working properly?

    • @YeOldeKamikaze
      @YeOldeKamikaze 3 года назад +7

      @@kjellringstrom6217 Perhaps you weren't supposed to be aware of that, and this conversation is all due to a widespread anomaly in the human brain :-B

  • @plopperator
    @plopperator 9 лет назад +2637

    They must have very small soldering irons and steady hands for this.

    • @plopperator
      @plopperator 9 лет назад +129

      ok but probably still need very steady hands.

    • @demonetizeddemonetisedinmy1890
      @demonetizeddemonetisedinmy1890 9 лет назад +95

      ploperator actually very accurate pistons and gears. All the making is done by a computer/robot

    • @plopperator
      @plopperator 9 лет назад +603

      then the computers must have very steady hands

    • @dieglhix
      @dieglhix 9 лет назад +6

      ***** lol

    • @plopperator
      @plopperator 9 лет назад +65

      Poontang_Pounder it probably started with a chicken.

  • @tylershepard4269
    @tylershepard4269 5 лет назад +67

    I’m an undergraduate electrical engineering major, and microchip design and fabrication is absolutely amazing to me. It’s something that’s very close to my heart.

  • @flippert0
    @flippert0 3 года назад +93

    Remember: one dust particle and the whole chip is useless

    • @user-jg1yn9lm2g
      @user-jg1yn9lm2g 3 года назад +12

      1 impure atom for a million pure silicon atoms

    • @botyaltotertutal468
      @botyaltotertutal468 3 года назад

      Bit of an exaggertion innit

    • @flippert0
      @flippert0 3 года назад +29

      @@botyaltotertutal468 Actually, no. There's a reason why the strictest clean room policy is something like 1 dust particle per cubic meter.

    • @NathanChisholm041
      @NathanChisholm041 2 года назад +4

      @@flippert0 I'd like to empty my vacuum cleaner's bag out in one of those clean rooms to see their faces!

    • @bloodygekkon
      @bloodygekkon 3 месяца назад +1

      Hmm that is why Intel employees working with spacesuits

  • @ChildOL
    @ChildOL 8 лет назад +3944

    Difficult to believe that objects that small can be manufactured

    • @Mutation80
      @Mutation80 8 лет назад +440

      Yet you use them every day

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious 8 лет назад +259

      They're created with something more like a photographic process. Machining such things would be so wildly expensive no one could afford a microchip.

    • @flatplant
      @flatplant 8 лет назад +626

      funny enough that's an outdated chip from the 90's today they're 100x smaller.

    • @johnathankrausrig9237
      @johnathankrausrig9237 7 лет назад +177

      they "just" used a photo ink, a laser with extremely low wavelength, acid (not the one to get high :D) and highly precision and mass producing. Its a long way to archive something beautyful like that, but we arent at the end of this way.

    • @GustavoRivasMendez
      @GustavoRivasMendez 7 лет назад +84

      So they are basically printed by lasers? That is amazing.

  • @likedcommentsRdeleted
    @likedcommentsRdeleted 7 лет назад +877

    if you look closely you can see one of those "Tron" bikes.....

    • @coloneldd
      @coloneldd 6 лет назад +7

      omg i can see it...thank you so much:))))

    • @V1TYA.
      @V1TYA. 6 лет назад +3

      I read this comment when I got 18 year old.

    • @nodak81
      @nodak81 6 лет назад +2

      Light Cycle

    • @DebugCat
      @DebugCat 5 лет назад

      @@V1TYA. ok 7 year old

    • @MM-vs2et
      @MM-vs2et 5 лет назад +4

      ''The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?''

  • @clansman89
    @clansman89 8 лет назад +2315

    How do they produce screws so small?

    • @TheNdoki
      @TheNdoki 8 лет назад +2358

      People with really tiny hands.

    • @sgpsimonb
      @sgpsimonb 8 лет назад +518

      maybe there is a future for d.trump...

    • @trentkiewicz21
      @trentkiewicz21 7 лет назад +106

      Maaan, I wanted to say that xD

    • @ronch550
      @ronch550 6 лет назад +23

      clsman89 they use microns, of course.

    • @elonwong
      @elonwong 6 лет назад +101

      That super big, now chip could be marked at 7nm

  • @projectom9950
    @projectom9950 6 лет назад +35

    This amount of engineering and structure is amazing. And yet ppl throw their computers in the trash when it "stops working"

    • @bsky6525
      @bsky6525 2 года назад +4

      When your iPhone 10 with a very powerful processor with an inbuilt gpu, modem and a ton of sensors doesnt record your stupid tiktok in 8k 120fps like the new iPhone 14

    • @Swavvy116Xrs
      @Swavvy116Xrs Год назад +3

      No one can beat the simple power of supply & demand

    • @alexio1942
      @alexio1942 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Swavvy116Xrsmore like supply and stupidity

  • @Scientist_Albert_Einstein
    @Scientist_Albert_Einstein 6 лет назад +5

    I am a physicist and even i don't fully understand how these are made. I have heard about lithography, etc... but I never had any classes in college that taught us how these things are made. It is amazing what we humans can make!

  • @guigui78340
    @guigui78340 10 лет назад +529

    the engineers who designed this, are more astonishing.

    • @lionheartrsn1
      @lionheartrsn1 6 лет назад +5

      sugar glider CAD

    • @bryede
      @bryede 5 лет назад +48

      In the early days of integrated circuits, the entire chip design was done by hand and then shrunk to production size by a photographic process. Today it's all done by computer and it's possible to design a chip completely by a description of it's function and let the software figure out where to put everything.

    • @user-rw7md5mp7d
      @user-rw7md5mp7d 5 лет назад +18

      @@bryede "all done by a computer" - yes, sure.

    • @EGL24Xx
      @EGL24Xx 5 лет назад +21

      @@user-rw7md5mp7d Yes, really.

    • @WaveForceful
      @WaveForceful 5 лет назад +11

      That what over 50 years of science and research does.

  • @yusmag
    @yusmag 10 лет назад +535

    It feels like Google earth, and you zoom into a dried field crop.

    • @tarcisofilho4878
      @tarcisofilho4878 6 лет назад +22

      To see the bacteria on the larvae...

    • @panc4kes276
      @panc4kes276 6 лет назад +13

      Tarciso Filho To see the atoms of the bacteria

    • @wsapalas
      @wsapalas 5 лет назад +4

      To see the ropes on the atoms. (Maybe)

    • @tromick
      @tromick 5 лет назад

      I was looking for this comment.

    • @darian.brumari
      @darian.brumari 5 лет назад +3

      @@timothyegoroff8333 i can see you
      bitch

  • @cosmotect
    @cosmotect 7 лет назад +402

    3 am youtube, here we go again

    • @tromick
      @tromick 5 лет назад +9

      hahaha 4:37 AM here.

    • @hopydaddy
      @hopydaddy 5 лет назад +2

      RUclips sucks you in; it's a drug and you are an addict.

    • @tromick
      @tromick 5 лет назад

      @@hopydaddy I can't call something habbit if it is helps me to improve my educate.

    • @adityarai8170
      @adityarai8170 5 лет назад +2

      2:04 am right now

    • @EricTViking
      @EricTViking 5 лет назад +1

      02:43 - deffo off to bed now ;)

  • @KayoMichiels
    @KayoMichiels 6 лет назад +4

    Pause video at 0:11, open up a new RUclips Tab, search "Sea of Simulation - Daft Punk", play the song and continue watch this video.

  • @RjBenjamin353
    @RjBenjamin353 6 лет назад +329

    Damn! Those Chinese kids working for Apple at 50 cents a day have damn good eyesight

    • @user-be8wy2jq6e
      @user-be8wy2jq6e 4 года назад +6

      WhAt?!?!?

    • @helenchelmicka3028
      @helenchelmicka3028 3 года назад +1

      lol lol

    • @muzgnasicianie
      @muzgnasicianie 3 года назад +2

      Why for Apple and not for Samsung or Xiaomi ect.

    • @marks6663
      @marks6663 3 года назад +22

      @@muzgnasicianie Apple is notorious for its slave labor practices.

    • @muzgnasicianie
      @muzgnasicianie 3 года назад +2

      @@marks6663 And you think that $amsung is better 😂 while Apple use some $amsung’s components. Also Xiaomi is Chinese company so I highly doubt that it is better than Apple. Sorry for bursting your bubble 🙊

  • @tuberoako777
    @tuberoako777 9 лет назад +111

    This is just so amazing. Probably the most sophisticated man made, no living structure; the modern microchip.

    • @Gnocke
      @Gnocke 8 лет назад +1

      +tuberoako777 i don;t think its a man made

    • @Tremor244
      @Tremor244 8 лет назад +40

      +Saric Milan You are right, its made by machines that are made by man!

    • @erinnerungen8823
      @erinnerungen8823 8 лет назад +4

      +Tremor244 it's still impressive what man has made possible

    • @marcse7en
      @marcse7en 4 года назад +6

      Of course they're man made! Without man, they wouldn't be made!

    • @NathanChisholm041
      @NathanChisholm041 2 года назад

      @Anothercg Gmail Reversed engineered from downed extra terrestrial craft! 👽

  • @MRooodddvvv
    @MRooodddvvv 10 лет назад +376

    seems like this particular chip is not too new. otherwise there should be structures all the way to the tenths of nanometers.

    • @NISENet
      @NISENet  10 лет назад +186

      Correct! It's an I/O chip from the late 90's.

    • @ernststavroblofeld1961
      @ernststavroblofeld1961 8 лет назад +5

      Your video skills are terrible. There are jumps in the zoom. My advice, don't drink, while making movies.
      Better make a video, showing how we can make our own CPUs.

    • @derbigpr500
      @derbigpr500 8 лет назад +143

      I can't decide whether you're a troll or just a big idiot.

    • @MRooodddvvv
      @MRooodddvvv 8 лет назад +27

      derbigpr500
      how bout "BIG TROLL" !?

    • @ernststavroblofeld1961
      @ernststavroblofeld1961 8 лет назад

      BEERCOASTERSpl Finally somebody talks some sense!
      Stand easy!

  • @ZackValenta
    @ZackValenta 8 лет назад +58

    *spits out coffee and slams mug* How the FUCK are those made?

    • @Tremor244
      @Tremor244 8 лет назад +2

      +Zack Valenta It actualy takes about 6 months just to make a single chip! :D

    • @Tremor244
      @Tremor244 8 лет назад +6

      By single chip i mean a waffer, they cut the chips out of the waffers, each has a few hundred chips on it

    • @d1zguy864
      @d1zguy864 8 лет назад +4

      +Zack Valenta Roswell aliens lol

    • @Yahgiggle
      @Yahgiggle 8 лет назад +1

      +Morten Lauritsen the smaller they make them the more chip's they can cram onto one wafer they now make well over 1000 chips on one wafer oO, they use a layer system where they build each layer using solvents and other things to eatch away at the chip and yes it can take months to build a chip but x that by 100,000.00s made at a time then you can bring that cost down to what we pay nowdays also most of this is automated.

    • @comprehendnature2404
      @comprehendnature2404 8 лет назад +1

      +Zack Valenta : It is a production of its own kind. Different light colors have different temperatures. By using light they make nano meter transistors. You can use normal transistors and make a computer out of it by hand soldiering it. You will need good knowledge of how to turn on/off transistors to build a memory card, but it will take thousands of hours to make one by hand. Now there is no soldering taking place when making memory cards, light is the new means of producing memory cards. Just look to the history of it, and you will be amazed by the progress we are making.

  • @misterdude4296
    @misterdude4296 5 лет назад +57

    'Music by Redman'
    I must be deaf because I didn’t even hear the music by RedMan.

    • @pankajkaurav3155
      @pankajkaurav3155 3 года назад +4

      Same here even i put speaker near to my here in full volume but didn't get any one single sound 😂😂

    • @MannVerde
      @MannVerde 3 года назад

      It was worth coming to the comment section 😂😂

    • @leandrolui9951
      @leandrolui9951 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/HwyDsmxmQXA/видео.html

    • @MrBlackHawk888
      @MrBlackHawk888 3 года назад +2

      RedMan just composed a track that some people always ask for! Called "Silence" or something like that. Turn it on and enjoy.

  • @deadsi
    @deadsi 5 лет назад +17

    Crazy how precise it still is, I thought since it's at the edge of technology it'd be quite rough at that scale, looks like it's possible to go half that size still

  • @iancraftsandmines6266
    @iancraftsandmines6266 8 лет назад +175

    HOW DO THEY FIT A TRANSISTOR IN 20 F**KING NANOMETERS?!

    • @cyancoyote7366
      @cyancoyote7366 8 лет назад +109

      They have steady hands...

    • @adamkahn4284
      @adamkahn4284 8 лет назад +16

      It really gives you a perspective for stuff like this... www.theverge.com/2015/7/9/8919091/ibm-7nm-transistor-processor and to think that the width of a strand of DNA is 2 nanometers...

    • @Javiertr86
      @Javiertr86 8 лет назад +22

      alien technology shit

    • @cyancoyote7366
      @cyancoyote7366 8 лет назад

      ***** So it's not worth to calculate transistor count using the die size and transistor size xP

    • @GrzegorzDurda
      @GrzegorzDurda 8 лет назад +4

      Its Photographed into place.

  • @DaniloOliveira87
    @DaniloOliveira87 7 лет назад +65

    Hi, sorry but the last part of the video is super incorrect. A 20nm transistor size is not 20nm by 20nm. 20nm is the CHANNEL LENGTH. the channel width is normally bigger than the length, and you still need area for the drain, the source, the bulk, the contacts, and metal routing. the area you showed is 1um², and with a 14nm technology they can fit only 15-30 transistors in there, not 50x50=2500.

    • @leiflawhite6890
      @leiflawhite6890 3 года назад +2

      Right. and on that chip, there are no features smaller than what we could see just before the 20nm overlay.

    • @mdhj67
      @mdhj67 3 года назад +1

      Yep. And the minimum channel sizes are almost never used in analog circuitry.

    • @joefuentes2977
      @joefuentes2977 3 года назад +1

      We were looking at only the top metal layers right?

    • @ediodimacaroni
      @ediodimacaroni 3 года назад

      @Mikey moo uhhh i also agree. transistor does stuff

  • @kamikazeboy123
    @kamikazeboy123 7 лет назад +95

    Just wondering, wouldnt we see any bacteria or any microorganisms on it?

    • @alextrebek8293
      @alextrebek8293 5 лет назад +57

      they're made in super clean environments and the workers wear moon suits

    • @alla-turca
      @alla-turca 5 лет назад +14

      alex trebek moon suit

    • @alexa.davronov1537
      @alexa.davronov1537 5 лет назад +2

      @@alla-turca LOL

    • @tylershepard4269
      @tylershepard4269 5 лет назад +3

      alex trebek Lol moon suits would be comfortable compared to our clean room suits.

    • @ahmdf
      @ahmdf 5 лет назад +16

      Empty spaces in a chip are filled with silicon dioxide.

  • @Horny_Fruit_Flies
    @Horny_Fruit_Flies 5 лет назад +16

    Out of all the inventions of humanity, I think I'm in awe of the micro processor the most. I feel like such a savage caveman thinking about these things. I can't even begin to comprehend how they work. Is there anyone who actually knows, from top to bottom, from A to Z how they work and how they're made, or is it more like medicine, where you have specialists who focus on their little bit of the human body, and don't understand well how other parts work, nor how the whole thing works?

    • @PANTHERA369
      @PANTHERA369 3 года назад +7

      They are just distractions to stop us from realizing our brains are the true computers running the show, our machine overlords obviously show us flashy computer chips to trick us into giving our computational power to them. The human brain is a quantum computer, more powerful than any chip in your phone. You can summon information from your many senses and also create it from sources unknown , imagination is an interesting thing isnt it ? Just where do thoughts come from ?
      I'm just joking (just as the machines would want you to believe)

    • @bmbiz
      @bmbiz 2 года назад

      If you leave out anything to do with quantum mechanics any reasonably intelligent person can gain a holistic understanding from the atomic level up to how programs work at the CPU level and everything up from there.

    • @drygordspellweaver8761
      @drygordspellweaver8761 2 года назад +2

      Youre right- no one person can remotely begin to grasp the cumulative knowledge behind this. It takes entire teams of specialists dedicating their entire careers just to make advances on one single aspect of one part of the process. Even the machinery to cut the chip wafers is super advanced.

    • @don_d1997
      @don_d1997 2 года назад

      There are numerous people on RUclips who know what they are made of and how they work from top to bottom

    • @drygordspellweaver8761
      @drygordspellweaver8761 2 года назад +1

      ​@@don_d1997 yeah right next to the numerous people on youtube who can beat Mike Tyson in the ring 😂

  • @paulebberson4884
    @paulebberson4884 4 года назад +5

    I assume we are only seeing the metal conducting layers here and the insulating layers between are invisible. Amazing that the technology can produce such a straight edge at this micron level.

  • @BlueberrySapSmoke
    @BlueberrySapSmoke 8 лет назад +461

    so the microchip is made by a robot? which is powered by a microchip?
    Which came first? the chicken or the egg

    • @hyprolxag
      @hyprolxag 8 лет назад +196

      the first was huge, but they became smaller, the bigger made the smaller.

    • @Gameboygenius
      @Gameboygenius 8 лет назад +53

      What came first was people making a photomask by hand by cutting pieces out of an opaque material the size of a table. This large image was then focused down onto the silicon wafer to etch out semiconductor and metal layers on the wafer.

    • @iancraftsandmines6266
      @iancraftsandmines6266 8 лет назад +82

      The first robots didn't have the microchips. They had giant PCBs. Made from large full-sized components, transistors 500,000 (I did the approximate math) times bigger. They were huge, but made logic gates fit onto smaller circuits. These helped them make smaller logic gates and smaller CPUs. These new CPUs made better robots which made better cpus, and so on. By the way if the microchip is the egg and the robot is the chicken, the chicken came first.

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious 8 лет назад +11

      People do not cut out photomasks and "focus down." Masks are now made with electron beam lithography systems...which is really similar to the SEM that was used to image the chip here.

    • @Gameboygenius
      @Gameboygenius 8 лет назад +7

      +aluisious Yes, of course they don't do that *now*. That was an answer to the chicken and egg question. E-beam scanners and FIBs are robots in the sense of the question because they practically require numerical control.

  • @kujiro_x8099
    @kujiro_x8099 6 лет назад +16

    "Music by Redmann" yeah good job man the music sounds awesome

  • @hansdampf640
    @hansdampf640 5 лет назад +3

    wow!
    no timewasting intro,no crappy music this video just deliver what it promise :)
    good work sir.
    sub

  • @Huanchee
    @Huanchee 4 года назад +10

    one thing I've wondered when I've seen videos like this....has anyone ever been able to successfully zoom in on a chip while it's actually receiving power and working? I'm sure it would need to be an even older chip than this one in order to even be possible....and would there even be anything to really "see" is another thing I'm wondering.

    • @zeeeeeeeeeev6493
      @zeeeeeeeeeev6493 2 года назад +2

      Pretty sure theres nothing to see, its electricity moving through wires

  • @JF32304
    @JF32304 5 лет назад +6

    Even more amazing is the fact that it works!

  • @viglosiabuilding9444
    @viglosiabuilding9444 4 года назад +22

    Bacteria : "That's my home,, the blue one,, can you see it?"

  • @KILOPOWER
    @KILOPOWER 5 лет назад +19

    3:13 so, yes, music... on of the best i ever heard! she plays 1/2 of my day everyday everywhere!

  • @AlexandreRosas
    @AlexandreRosas 9 лет назад +28

    the 2015 movie 'blackhat' begins with a 4 minutes sequence where we dive into a microchip as well, but through a highly realistic CGI model instead of electron microscope imagery (the CGI simulates an electron microscope result, though). the director said Qualcomm gave them a digital 3D model of a real microchip of theirs, only 8 years old as of 2015. fascinating stuff. the rest of the movie sucks, though.

  • @yanzihko
    @yanzihko 5 лет назад +6

    I applaud to all those people who managed to create this.

    • @krix0043
      @krix0043 9 месяцев назад

      demonic inventions. people serve as their hands

    • @zhongxina9420
      @zhongxina9420 3 месяца назад

      ​@@krix0043you're not the brightest tool in the shed aren't you? it's just manipulating electrical signals to produce ones and zeroes

    • @krix0043
      @krix0043 3 месяца назад

      @@zhongxina9420 yep. just tell me how you put billions of transistors on a few square milimeters in several layers almost a few atoms thin. the processor technology seems just like something a human can invent and manufacture. especially when the tech enables demons.
      drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fZYY-RzVuaKLiDcmjbbtAfJBQAMXOxkb?usp=drive_link

  • @groundsymphony
    @groundsymphony 3 года назад +17

    Remember guys this is a 2014 chip, current ones is way smaller

    • @muuubiee
      @muuubiee 3 года назад +1

      iirc IBM is doing 3nm.

    • @vcv5021
      @vcv5021 3 года назад +1

      @@muuubiee tsmc 2nm

    • @banu6301
      @banu6301 3 года назад +1

      its way older lol, prob a late 90's chip current ones are orders of magnitude smaller

    • @muuubiee
      @muuubiee 3 года назад

      @@banu6301 20nm is not that old. Intel is still at 14nm iirc. Late 90's would be +200nm.

    • @flippert0
      @flippert0 3 года назад

      @@muuubiee Yeah, but the 20nm at the end obviously wasn't used here. Finest structures are 1 micron. So it's probably indeed much older

  • @Bcso591
    @Bcso591 9 лет назад +36

    It's like a city...

  • @grahamdavies8924
    @grahamdavies8924 6 лет назад +5

    This seems very misleading. At 2:30, we are shown a 1 micron square divided into a 50 by 50 array of smaller squares, each small square therefore being 20 nanometers on a side. A caption fades in stating that "Each square represents a 20 nanometer transistor". This suggests, by using the vague word "represents", that you could fit such a transistor in each square. This is completely false. The characteristic dimension of a semiconductor technology is the minimum feature size, usually equal to the length of the gate of the switching transistors used in the internal logic circuits. The total size of such transistors is many times greater.

  • @DHZ-xy5ui
    @DHZ-xy5ui 4 года назад +11

    Fun fact: you can actually interpret the data on a flash memory chip this way. By analyzing the physical gates you could reconstruct the data on a chip. Obviously it's very time consuming. In digital forensics it is sometimes attemped in high-profile cases.

    • @wilsan806
      @wilsan806 Год назад

      ​@Mudkip909wouldn't it bypass encryption?

    • @wilsan806
      @wilsan806 Год назад

      @Mudkip909 guess i need to read up on the cryptographic methods. Sorry for the necro friend

  • @alpha-q1066
    @alpha-q1066 5 лет назад +12

    Nobody:
    youtube at 3 am : hey! wanna zoom into microchips??

    • @bountyhunter4885
      @bountyhunter4885 5 лет назад

      2:32... So....THAT'S where Waldo has been hiding. I knew it. 😉

  • @c.m.7037
    @c.m.7037 3 года назад +3

    And that's just the surface (although it does show some of the depth/layers of it too).

  • @someguy5035
    @someguy5035 3 года назад +4

    When it zooms in and you're like holy crap.
    Then it zooms in some more and you see that it is multiple layers of what you were already seeing.
    It is mind boggling that humans can do this.

  • @BangMaster96
    @BangMaster96 5 лет назад +30

    Here's a fun fact, those microchips contains miles and miles of connections.

    • @rudytoth
      @rudytoth 4 года назад +2

      And another true fact that there's real gold in those chips too. 👍😎👍

    • @iCore7Gaming
      @iCore7Gaming 3 года назад

      @@rudytoth it's silicon. gold is used on connections, but very little.

    • @rudytoth
      @rudytoth 3 года назад

      @@iCore7Gaming Yes that's right, the electrons have a better conductivity at those entry points.

  • @Yana.-_-.
    @Yana.-_-. 3 года назад +2

    What's the first
    The microchip or Machine that made microchip?

  • @VickyBoss9411
    @VickyBoss9411 6 лет назад +2

    If a becteria touchs the two lines
    Why there shouldb be no short circuits

    • @Blustride
      @Blustride 5 лет назад +1

      There probably would be, which is why it's incredibly important that nothing contaminate the IC. The clean rooms where these things are produced are insanely clean, and even then some wafers have to get thrown out.

  • @vhpf1699
    @vhpf1699 3 года назад +1

    こんなに目にも見えないような細かい回路がちゃんと動作するって神秘的ですね。
    70年くらい前の真空管やらトランジスタやらの時代からわずかの短期間でここまで、技術が向上するなんて
    人類の歴史から見てみればごく短い期間なのにテクノロジーの発展ていうのはすごいですね

  • @kinganime2702
    @kinganime2702 3 года назад +3

    Where is music?

  • @ObjectableApparatus
    @ObjectableApparatus 9 лет назад +223

    looks like a military base

    • @sibaprasadcoolofaboloawesome
      @sibaprasadcoolofaboloawesome 8 лет назад +10

      or like houses in a town

    • @TheFujac
      @TheFujac 8 лет назад +5

      i'll go with suburban 'blocks' too

    • @HandledToaster2
      @HandledToaster2 6 лет назад +6

      Or a maze...
      A huge, tiny maze.

    • @Dwight511
      @Dwight511 6 лет назад

      Not really a maze when all the electrons know exactly where to go. xD

    • @Dwight511
      @Dwight511 6 лет назад

      +Douglas Lol, that's not what I meant, the electron's path is controlled by switches obviously.

  • @felipevaldes6313
    @felipevaldes6313 8 лет назад +9

    how the fuck is this real life, MIND BLOWN

  • @yashsvidixit7169
    @yashsvidixit7169 2 года назад +1

    0:05 You know it's gonna be DOPE when you see that font.

  • @jimanderson9867
    @jimanderson9867 5 лет назад +1

    It was nice, right up to the end, where you tried to say there were thousands of transistors packed into the gate of a single transistor.

  • @Applerulit
    @Applerulit 6 лет назад +6

    Удивительно! Это тут, я как понимаю, показан размер 20-ти нанометрового тех процесса, и в конце ролика стоит дата 1012 год. А новости февраля 2018 говорят уже о 3 нанометровом тех процессе, то есть транзисторов, на такой же площади, как в данном ролике, поместится в 6 раз больше. Как эти демоны так делают?

    • @NDmitriyI
      @NDmitriyI 5 лет назад

      Сделать еще меньше не проблема. Проблема в том, что электрон начинает проявлять свои волновые свойства.

  • @FreeManSaysAll
    @FreeManSaysAll 6 лет назад +6

    I would love to see an updated version of with one of Intels newest microchips that are now down close to a atomic level!

    • @CattleRustlerOCN
      @CattleRustlerOCN 3 года назад +3

      Intel is at 10 nm, AMD is at 6 nm, and ibm just made a 2 nm prototype

  • @TTime685
    @TTime685 3 года назад +7

    Imagine most of modern tech being destroyed and having to start over from scratch

    • @superdude1534
      @superdude1534 3 года назад

      we would be screwed, most of the people who designed, developed, tested these chips are dead. Some might still be alive, but starting from scratch would require someone to have the knowledge also the resources of a massive company and limitless resources as it was when these first came out. Also something tells me the military had an involvment in some of the first microchips

    • @giraffe3718
      @giraffe3718 3 года назад

      @@superdude1534 well, he said "most" so this implies that not all of the technology would be destroyed
      also everything will be recorded on paper, thousands or even millions of times and secured in different places, so humans would never really have to start from scratch

    • @bissy97
      @bissy97 3 года назад +1

      I hope someone wrote down how to make chips.

    • @odonnchadha1978
      @odonnchadha1978 3 года назад

      Yeah like moon landing tech

    • @AdamantLightLP
      @AdamantLightLP 3 года назад

      @@odonnchadha1978 ? They are creating new landers cause the old ones are outdated. Do you drive a car from the 60s?

  • @mob1235
    @mob1235 3 года назад +2

    Wrong. You see the transistor is much larger. There are no 20nm transistors. Even the TSMC 7nm technique makes transistors with over 50nm.

  • @nanotektor
    @nanotektor 4 года назад

    Lot of aberration on the last image. Doing it again on a newer SEM?

  • @EnglishTeacherBerlin
    @EnglishTeacherBerlin 6 лет назад +4

    That is absolutely marvellous and of high educational value. Thank you for producing this fascinating insight!

  • @wrestlingconnoisseur
    @wrestlingconnoisseur 3 года назад +5

    I just thought of something: If I was six microns, I'd still be pretty tall.

  • @CriticalRoleHighlights
    @CriticalRoleHighlights 3 года назад +5

    Seeing this, you can really start to appreciate the reason for why we're starting to run out of space on microchips and how important it is for AI control and quantum computing to become a thing unless we want microchips to become exponentially larger.

    • @krix0043
      @krix0043 9 месяцев назад

      "quantum computing" are demonic entity portals

  • @tehan_fernando
    @tehan_fernando 2 года назад +1

    It's decades of technological and engineering development.
    Happy to see that.

  • @jaymantisgaming
    @jaymantisgaming 10 месяцев назад +1

    amazing stuff. i remember, as a kid, i was that kid who took all his toys apart to see how they worked. i got my greasy mitts on a circuit board and couldn't figure anything out. i cracked open a microschip and was like ''pfft! there's nothing in it. its just a plastic square'' and threw it away, probably to play with a capacitor or something. innocent times :D

  • @kaustavchakraborty8773
    @kaustavchakraborty8773 5 лет назад +7

    Legends say, it's still zooming.

  • @punishedexistence
    @punishedexistence 10 лет назад +4

    Amazing that cities look just like this from space, and we're like the little electrons zooming around. Now think when you short one of these out, the utter chaos that is ensuing in the nanometer range. It's kinda like when the supreme force decides that one of us die how insignificant it really is in the scale of even the earth, let alone the universe.

  • @joaogoncalves1149
    @joaogoncalves1149 8 лет назад +4

    I found funny the instant jump from the dSLR to a SEM :D

  • @robertlakay88
    @robertlakay88 3 года назад

    Just before the block of Nanos, there are small irregular objects in the background. Are those microbes?

  • @SD-unlimited
    @SD-unlimited 4 года назад

    So what’s going on in there to make it work? It’s 1’s and 0’s correct? On or off?
    It’s neat to see all the lines and layers but I’m curious why it’s built like this and how it functions.

  • @chrissawyer3862
    @chrissawyer3862 10 лет назад +7

    I can't watch this without listening to Phillip Glass.

  • @acorgiwithacrown467
    @acorgiwithacrown467 7 лет назад +6

    How is it even possible to design and make something so Precise?

    • @HandledToaster2
      @HandledToaster2 6 лет назад +2

      Very small hands

    • @bamberghh1691
      @bamberghh1691 6 лет назад

      corgidog you make robots that build circuits. You build a robot that works on this circuit that builds smaller circuits. You build a robot that works on this smaller circuit that builds even smaller circuits and so on

    • @patstaysuckafreeboss8006
      @patstaysuckafreeboss8006 6 лет назад

      AppleToaster I agree with you. Small hands are key

    • @iamwisdomsky
      @iamwisdomsky 6 лет назад +3

      it's using a technique called photolithography. they're just like projecting very small patterns into a board(wafer) and poof! it became coco crunch!

  • @ErickVZG22
    @ErickVZG22 7 лет назад +19

    This came from ALIENS xD

    • @inox1ck
      @inox1ck 6 лет назад +1

      Erick Alejandro yes I've seen many of them, they look identical to humans, except much smarter

    • @asmrfan6543
      @asmrfan6543 6 лет назад +1

      The aliens provide the machine that makes these, nothing more. Let's not get carried away! I think some humans are allowed to assist on the design, but mostly we're just apes peddling the wares.

    • @Singularity2039
      @Singularity2039 6 лет назад +10

      To stupid people smart people must seem like "aliens".

    • @Kuri0
      @Kuri0 6 лет назад

      @@Singularity2039 /r/woosh

    • @josuefairy
      @josuefairy 5 лет назад

      Not aliens fir likely on Earth. Like this is a Terminator

  • @itwasaliens
    @itwasaliens Год назад

    How much information could be stored if you scaled a microchip up until 1 micron was equal to a mm or cm.

  • @ninja-wy6we
    @ninja-wy6we 3 года назад

    The Asian worker's making these little bits and pieces fit into all the right places all day long every single time... Respect.

    • @Encourageable
      @Encourageable 3 года назад

      There’s essentially no input from humans. It’s the machines making the chips that is impressive.

  • @Desertduleler_88
    @Desertduleler_88 4 года назад +4

    Absolutely incredible the extent of advanced miniaturisation today. At one stage there, it reminded me of the surface of the “Death Star”.

  • @amaze2n
    @amaze2n 9 лет назад +34

    how in the hell do they make this?

    • @amaze2n
      @amaze2n 9 лет назад +5

      ***** I know, but still... it's insane

    • @Synthcave
      @Synthcave 9 лет назад +12

      amaze2n Illuminati...

    • @Synthcave
      @Synthcave 9 лет назад

      amaze2n Illuminati...

    • @holyfuckitsablondedoesitme7120
      @holyfuckitsablondedoesitme7120 8 лет назад

      +amaze2n sorry for late but
      its is crafted by -Jesus- laser (explain by Eisenstein the Atheist)

    • @Synthcave
      @Synthcave 8 лет назад

      Holyfuck its a Blonde! Does it mean they're dumb&shit? Really?... i dont know what you talking about xD

  • @aluisious
    @aluisious 8 лет назад +32

    "Each square represents a 20nm transistor" that was not pictured here.

  • @jamesberwick2210
    @jamesberwick2210 3 года назад +1

    I worked at a company that made Electron beam Microscopes years ago. We'd put in a simple counter and run it with a generator and the transistors would light up and you could watch the chip counting up or down, 'fun stuff.

  • @mnmufid
    @mnmufid 4 года назад

    Thanks for not added music on this great silent video

  • @AAvfx
    @AAvfx 3 года назад +4

    First time I've understood what is nanotechnology! (Almost...) 👍🥇

  • @sirisoj
    @sirisoj 5 лет назад +3

    And everithing started with chipped stones. I think we've evolved a bit since then.

  • @internetwarrior666
    @internetwarrior666 9 лет назад +122

    How could anyone have designed this? ALIENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @InnovumTechnology
      @InnovumTechnology 9 лет назад +23

      They're mostly designed by computers now. Kind of.
      Humans create a description of how the processor works. Basically you have simple electronic circuits that can perform logic calculations, store small quantities of data, or do simple math. They describe larger circuits as interconnected groups of these circuits, and describe circuits that are larger yet as interconnected groups of those circuits, etc. Eventually they end up with a simple description of the processor, typically ending up being significantly less complex than your average computer program.
      From there, they simply put it into a computer, decide how the chip will be arranged on a large scale, and then have the computer do the rest.
      Modern microprocessors are far more complex than the one you see here though. The circuits are about 50-100 times smaller, and those smaller components are in an area that's much larger as well.

    • @elpachonisimoSOS
      @elpachonisimoSOS 9 лет назад +2

      Sassymui8 White people, quieres decir que no hubo una contribucion por parte de las personas de color o los amarillos?

    • @amaze2n
      @amaze2n 9 лет назад +5

      elpachonisimo SOS whoever here said that people of colour made no contribution to this technology? I wish people would stop pulling the race card. There are incredibly intelligent people of every colour and nationality, it has absolutely nothing to do with race. Stop playing the victim. What he was saying is that this technology is so mindblowing and complex, that only beings from outer space with superior intelligence could have come up with a way to create it. It's a joke. I guess you misunderstood the word "aliens" as referring to people from foreign countries. In that case, sorry, but please believe that most white people are not prejudiced against you.

    • @elpachonisimoSOS
      @elpachonisimoSOS 9 лет назад +4

      amaze2n Bueno claramente yo soy una persona hispanohablante, y apenas entendí por el traductor de google lo que intentas expresar, claro entiendo el contexto de "la broma" soy consciente que solo somos comentarios en un video de youtube, no me siento victima, simplemente el racismo esta tan atrás en mi forma de ver las cosas que es ridículo hablar de ello, sin embargo quería ver que me respondía Sassymui8 se que la inteligencia y la raza es cuestión de posibilidad y deseo así como de capacidad congénita, de ahí en mas todo depende de cada uno de nosotros mismos.
      Interestingly many of those who speak English are offended when a person responds with another language is something I've tended to see in the comments

    • @andersmatte
      @andersmatte 6 лет назад +5

      From Roswell and such alien crashes.

  • @YogSoth
    @YogSoth Год назад +1

    A few mind blowing facts: Today (2023) our microchips have about 25x more transistors than when this video was made. Intel thinks that they will be able to fit 1 trillion transistors on a chip by 2030. In 1970 microprocessors had around 1000-1500 transistors per chip.

  • @andre-arthur
    @andre-arthur 4 года назад

    Is that what they mean when they say "7nm manufacturing process" for phone chipsets? Does it have to do with transistors?

  • @andrewgoodrick9958
    @andrewgoodrick9958 3 года назад +3

    It's annoying how this is just a series of images, with all of the "zooming" sequences just being an enlargement of the image until you skip to the next image

  • @reeshaug8522
    @reeshaug8522 7 лет назад +26

    1:27 did anyone else see the death star

  • @vanpenguin22
    @vanpenguin22 3 года назад +4

    I certainly hope the Oompah Loompahs are getting adequate compensation for their toil.

  • @LiezerZero
    @LiezerZero 5 лет назад

    3:09 Wait, There was music? Did YT mute it? Does YT not know what CC is?

  • @Ayeloo
    @Ayeloo 5 лет назад

    This video scares me, just shows the huge amount of details the microscopic world has and how far our technology has come

  • @quantbits2944
    @quantbits2944 5 лет назад +4

    What if Microships zooms at you?

  • @MilanVVVVV
    @MilanVVVVV 7 лет назад +68

    Intel announced 7-10 nm transistors during 2017..

    • @dan43544911
      @dan43544911 6 лет назад +15

      Its just the process that is called like that, the transistors are actually 3 times larger

    • @chriseffpunkt4333
      @chriseffpunkt4333 6 лет назад

      +dan43544911 Thanks Captain! Finally someone who got it.

    • @toiletcompanion5422
      @toiletcompanion5422 6 лет назад +6

      Milan Velebit lol there not even getting 10 nm until 2019

    • @thepope2412
      @thepope2412 6 лет назад

      There are already transistors smaller than that but of corse they’re being worked on.

    • @HashtagPULSE
      @HashtagPULSE 6 лет назад

      Probably the lines

  • @Siberius89
    @Siberius89 5 лет назад +4

    1:14

    • @Siberius89
      @Siberius89 5 лет назад +1

      Adiós Color
      Bye color

  • @Skupik1
    @Skupik1 3 года назад

    All that space-age technology, just so we can watch a funny cat video while taking a shit.

  • @leesmith9872
    @leesmith9872 18 дней назад

    It's not just the fact that this is made but that's it's mass produced and improved upon yearly

  • @piotrdmochewicz5055
    @piotrdmochewicz5055 10 лет назад +8

    nice film, but what happened with the music? ;-)

    • @TheMackLyons
      @TheMackLyons 10 лет назад +23

      No music could ever withstand the sweet, silent song of nanotechnology.

    • @NISENet
      @NISENet  10 лет назад +2

      There's a narrated version with the music. I should have taken out the music credit in the silent version.

  • @triple_octa
    @triple_octa 8 лет назад +32

    How did humans build that?

    • @GrzegorzDurda
      @GrzegorzDurda 8 лет назад +24

      the process is actually simple. Its actually photographed into place with a lens like the reverse of a microscope. So the design is large and then shrunk down.

    • @MannequinOngaku
      @MannequinOngaku 8 лет назад +14

      That's impressive, but the complex design of the circuitry is a feat of its own. How do they manage to design such a complex system? Is it more of a pattern, or is each link and component individually designed?

    •  7 лет назад +15

      Depends on the design, but usually there are large modular regions and a few less symmetrical parts. When they optimize for space in particular you can expect fewer symmetries because you need to cram a more diverse set of functionalities into a smaller and more interconnected region.
      The design is now done with computers, though many constraints are manually places by the programmer. Then the rest of the design is often left to the computer (and it will try to cram as many things as possible into space while also keeping the simulated energy consumption low too). The final optimized design is then reviewed and printed.

    • @MannequinOngaku
      @MannequinOngaku 7 лет назад +2

      Andrés Gómez Emilsson damn, that's crazy.

    • @Nemesis_T_Type
      @Nemesis_T_Type 7 лет назад +13

      They pray to Jesus or Allah 3x a day. /s

  • @ugi062
    @ugi062 3 года назад +10

    Me when i complete a puzzle: *im genius*
    Meanwhile:

  • @proxy1035
    @proxy1035 5 лет назад

    what's with this "micron" instead of "micrometer"?

  • @louco36957
    @louco36957 6 лет назад

    Where is the emitter, base and collector of each transistor? I couldn't find them!

  • @imabeapirate
    @imabeapirate 6 лет назад +4

    Better at 0.25x speed!

  • @Monarch90
    @Monarch90 4 года назад +7

    who else coming here from youtube recomendation 2020?

  • @brnrdo880
    @brnrdo880 5 лет назад +5

    i waited to see Ricardo Milos or something like this

  • @falcongamer58
    @falcongamer58 3 года назад +1

    How do you even design them

  • @Kuhtlass
    @Kuhtlass 3 года назад

    And how does dust or small particles not affect it at all? Slight pressure would bend the metal as well.. Crazy.