Term tag: Manufacturing

Advanced Packaging

CoWoS, chiplets and 3D stacking — how compute dies and memory become one accelerator, and the assembly step that has actually gated AI chip supply.

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)

A chip wired for one job. Why Google builds TPUs and bitcoin abandoned GPUs — the volume-and-time bet behind custom silicon, with the break-even maths.

EUV Lithography

The machines that print advanced chips with 13.5 nm light — how they work, why only one company makes them, and what that chokepoint means.

Semiconductor Manufacturing

How an AI chip is actually made — wafers, process nodes, yield and the foundry model — and why supply cannot simply respond to a spike in demand.