on video How Microchips Are Made - Manufacturing of a Semiconductor

 

There are few things in the world as simple as sand, and perhaps none as complex as computer chips. Yet the simple element silicon in sand is the starting point for making the integrated circuits that power everything today, from supercomputers to cell phones to microwave ovens.

Turning sand into tiny devices with millions of components is an extraordinary feat of science and engineering that would have seemed impossible when the transistor was invented at Bell Labs in 1947.

 

There are few things in the world as simple as sand, and perhaps none as complex as computer chips. Yet the simple element silicon in sand is the starting point for making the integrated circuits that power everything today, from supercomputers to cell phones to microwave ovens.

Turning sand into tiny devices with millions of components is an extraordinary feat of science and engineering that would have seemed impossible when the transistor was invented at Bell Labs in 1947.