Fazil

Running a microdot meth lab tonight to qualify our new photoresist that combines calixarene/ hyperbranched/boronate polymers, MOF-PAG/thiophene, and GO quenchers for a PFAS-free, low-defect, substrate- agnostic resist with ArF/KrF compatibility, which can also be used on advanced nodes

Pretty sure they just translated and use a bot to paraphrase. Not very professional not acknowledging the source @tomshardware.bsky.social

Tom's hardware just ripped off and translated an article straight out of @nrcnl.bsky.social right after I quoted a post of theirs on X and mentioned it. Russian attempts at lithography is the theme.
Their article: www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Original article: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Deposition day

Microsoft claims quantum-computing breakthrough — but some physicists are sceptical The tech giant aims to make ‘topological’ quantum computers that will reach useful scales faster than competing technologies.

"These measurements do not, by themselves, determine whether the low-energy states detected by interferometry are topological."
Progress nonetheless and the hunt for elusive majorana intensifies and continues.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Expected. A simple case of Jevons paradox. When a resource becomes more affordable and efficient, more people are able to acquire it, leading to an overall increase in consumption. Happened with automobiles, smartphones, air travel etc.

Polishing the product

Powerful weapons and tech are ultimately inconsequential when it comes to natural forces and lessons in humility await contenders. Gazans know, and that's why they endure and empathize despite the genocide.

Peek

Price of 2nm wafer is going to be about $20-25k, first batch out the door

Reading makes you live longer.

The S in ASML stands for Silly

ASML's efforts with Directed Self Assembly(DSA) and our range of multipatterning techniques can be adapted to bring the 3D structures envisioned here to life. Some challenges ensuring overlay accuracy, process integration but our metrology can get us here.
news.mit.edu/2024/mit-eng...

A lot of beaming these days. Into the new year.

Even the Lego versions have export controls (Shipping only within US) 🤦‍♂️

Also, the refusal to adopt EUV prior to that close to a decade ago and becoming very complacent with node progression. Pat deserved more time to address all this.

Admire the fact that intel took bold technical bets but they did so too intensely on unproven techniques like contact over gates and single dummy gates as well adoption of materials like cobalt and tungsten into their process which lead to heir technical struggles.

30-micron tin droplet plasmafied using 3x60kHz laser. Upping the EUV ante from 2x50kHz for next gen machines, improving efficiency and productivity. #ASML

How to Achieve the Flow State Research has shown that regularly experiencing a flow state can be good for your mood, job satisfaction, and more. Here's how to set yourself up to get "in the zone".

A little trance, deep House music in the background helps too. #FlowState
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/cl...

Let the engineering, physics and code dictate the design.

Congres VS eist inzage in ASML-export naar China Handelspolitiek: Een commissie van het Amerikaanse Huis van Afgevaardigden wil dat ASML gevoelige details over export van zijn chipmachines naar China prijsgeeft. Doel is de Chinese chipproductie af t...

ASML has been requested to share sensitive information about its Chinese customers with the U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP."It's hard to decline such a request. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t."
Imagine the status of smaller companies #china #chip
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...