Podcasts · The Hardware Podcast with Fexingo: Chips, Devices, and Electronics Engineering Conversations
The Quiet Struggle of Chip Material Science
· 11 min · S1 E17
Episode The Quiet Struggle of Chip Material Science
Episode 17 of The Hardware Podcast dives into the unsung hero of semiconductor advancement: material science. Lucas and Luna explore how the industry is moving beyond silicon, focusing on high-NA EUV lithography and the search for next-gen channel materials like 2D materials. They discuss why the industry hit a wall with traditional scaling and how innovations like gate-all-around transistors and backside power delivery are keeping Moore's Law alive. A key case study: the shift from finFET to nanosheet transistors at 3nm and the material challenges that forced foundries to adopt new deposition techniques. The episode also touches on the economic calculus—why a single EUV tool costs $400 million and how that shapes the chip landscape. No hype, just the real engineering trade-offs.
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