You are looking at the most complex and important machine on the planet. This is an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography scanner from ASML. This 180 ton facility is the only way to make modern chips. To burn transistors the size of a few atoms on silicon, you need light that doesn't exist on Earth. The engineers have created pure cyberpunk: a machine drops microscopic drops of molten tin in a complete vacuum. In flight, each droplet is shot down by an extremely powerful carbon dioxide laser, hitting it 50,000 times per second! The droplets explode into plasma, hotter than the sun's surface. This plasma emits the same invisible EUV light that, using an ideal mirror system from Germany, prints the "brain" for artificial intelligence and electric cars.

You are looking at the most complex and important machine on the planet. This is an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography scanner from ASML. This 180 ton facility is the only way to make modern chips. To burn transistors the size of a few atoms on silicon, you need light that doesn't exist on Earth. The engineers have created pure cyberpunk: a machine drops microscopic drops of molten tin in a complete vacuum. In flight, each droplet is shot down by an extremely powerful carbon dioxide laser, hitting it 50,000 times per second! The droplets explode into plasma, hotter than the sun's surface. This plasma emits the same invisible EUV light that, using an ideal mirror system from Germany, prints the "brain" for artificial intelligence and electric cars.