Dwarkesh publishes 48 flashcards on advanced chip manufacturing to accompany Intel episode
calabi_and_yau · x · 2026-10-23
Dwarkesh Patel, with semis tutor Will Michaels, released a 48-card flashcard deck (with Anki download, transcript, and further-reading list) for his Intel episode on how the world's most advanced chips are made. Cards cover hard details like how ASML EUV machines generate 13.5nm light by hitting 25-30μm tin droplets with two laser pulses, why Intel's 10nm node stalled on cobalt interconnects and multi-patterning, and the shift from planar transistors to gate-all-around. The site also hosts decks for his LLM inference (with Reiner Pope) and AlphaGo-from-scratch (with Eric Jang) episodes.
Related event: Dwarkesh tours Intel's most advanced fab as chip capacity lags AI demand(3 posts)→
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