WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ……… HOW DO THEY DO IT?

The Microchip, or also called integrated circuit (IC), or commonly known among engineers as “COCKROACH” is a very thin pill or chip that contains a huge number of interacting microelectronic devices, mainly diodes and transistors, as well as components passives such as resistors or capacitors.

Integrated circuits were made possible by experimental discoveries that showed that semiconductors can perform the functions of empty tubes. The integration of large numbers of tiny transistors into small chips was a huge advance over the manual assembly of vacuum tubes (valves) and circuits using discrete components. The mass production capacity of integrated circuits, reliability and the ease of adding complexity to them imposed the standardization of integrated circuits instead of designs using transistors that soon rendered vacuum tubes or valves obsolete.

There are two main advantages of integrated circuits over conventional circuits: cost and performance. The low cost is due to the fact that the chips, with all their components, are printed as a single piece by photolithography and not built by transistors one at a time.

Some of the most advanced integrated circuits are microprocessors, which are used in many devices, from computers to household appliances, including mobile phones.

We are surrounded by them and they are of crucial importance to today’s modern information society. But ….. you have stopped to think how these increasingly smaller components are manufactured. Below is a video where the manufacturing process is shown in HOW IS IT MADE?