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Instagram account: / onlinertech === Today I want to talk about one, but the key step in this entire technological process - the creation of a machine that creates processors. In fact, this is not one machine, but a lithographic system. It is almost more amazing and complex to produce than the computer chips themselves. And it is made by a company whose disappearance would slow down digital progress for a good two decades. This company is at the very heart of the 400-billion chip manufacturing industry; without its equipment, Intel, Samsung and TSMC are unable to produce microcircuits. This equipment is so complex that only a few dozen are produced per year. And this naturally formed monopoly is a little scary. We are talking about the multinational company ASML from the Netherlands, which develops and produces photolithography systems - picks for miners who extract chips at Intel, Samsung and TSMC factories. ASML is a unique company. It is the only one in the world today that has systems that are capable of producing radiation with a wavelength of 13.5 nm. This range is called ultra-hard ultraviolet radiation. Near the level of X-ray radiation. The narrower the light wave, the finer the details it can draw on silicon wafers for future processors. The finer the details, the smaller the transistors, the more of them fit on a single crystal and the more productive and energy efficient the chips are. It is difficult to recall another company that would be so important and at the same time so unknown to the general public. === Onliner Technologies - Rich and understandable information about the technologies and gadgets that surround us.