50,000 tin droplets/second hit by laser
The ASML EUV chip-making machine hits 50,000 tin droplets every single second with a laser, each three times, and never misses a shot.
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The episode opens with Joe playing a documentary about the ASML EUV chip-manufacturing machine — arguably the most complex machine ever built. [1] — Joe Rogan "The machine that makes modern AI chips fires 150,000 laser shots per second at tin droplets the size of white blood cells — and never misse…" 01:50 The clip describes how the machine hits 50,000 microscopic tin droplets per second with a laser, three times each, heating each to 220,000 Kelvin (40 times hotter than the sun's surface), while overlaying chip layers with precision within 5 atoms. Tony is visibly stunned. Joe riffs on how people like him and Tony are out there making toilet humor while somewhere else engineers are literally doing science fiction. A block of sponsor reads for Create Creatine (with promo code ROGAN for 20% off), The Farmer's Dog (50% off first box), and ZipRecruiter (try free) follows before the conversation resumes.
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