(Courtesy: Queensgate) Electronic chips are made using photolithography, which involves shining ultraviolet light through a patterned mask and onto a semiconductor wafer. The light activates a ...

The equipment is used to print fine circuit patterns on semiconductor wafers. Japanese manufacturers once had a monopoly on the market for lithography systems, but they were overpowered by ASML ...

Since the chips are so small, hundreds are made on a single silicon wafer at once. After all the patterns have been faithfully reproduced on to the chips, the wafer is sliced up into individual chips.