THE VIDEO SHELF · semiconductor manufacturing
How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps
Branch Education walks through a semiconductor fab and the dozens of steps used to turn silicon wafers into microchips, with 3D animation. It covers lithography, deposition and etching at a high level.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as a clear visual reference for chip manufacturing steps.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Branch Education
- Topic
- semiconductor manufacturing
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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In the description they say a video on lithography is on the way. In the mean time maybe this one from the same channel: [VIDEO] Great channel
throwaway31131 on Hacker News · 2025-06
In How Are Transistors Assembled Inside a CPU? [video]Just to add to this, the Branch Education YouTube channel has great videos detailing the manufacturing process as well, here's one for starters: [VIDEO]
itopaloglu83 on Hacker News · 2025-11
In “One Student One Chip” Course Homepage
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