Zoomed in on a single transistor. ASML’s photolithography machines build your CPUs. 10,000x smaller, 1,000x faster since the 1940s.

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A SINGLE TRANSISTOR UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

That insane zoomed-in video? It reveals one lonely CPU transistor, the building block of every chip.

Transistors are crafted using photolithography, where ultraviolet light etches microscopic patterns into silicon, repeated hundreds to thousands of times to build a full CPU.

Only one company on Earth makes these machines: ASML, a Dutch titan with key operations in the Netherlands and assembly in Taiwan.

Since the 1940s, transistors have shrunk over 10,000 times and boosted speed by about 1,000 times.

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