Discover the incredible process of how billions of microchips are made from sand. It all begins with silicon extraction from sand, which is then refined into silicon wafers. These wafers are the ...

It's a breakthrough called extreme ultraviolet lithography, and it's how the most advanced microchips in the world are made. The kind of chips powering the latest AI models. The kind of chips that ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Chris Miller of Tufts University why semiconductors have become a political issue. He is author of "Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology." During ...

What makes a microchip so essential? Microchips are essential to goods we use every day, the stock market and the global economy writ large. Issues in the chip industry tend to have ripple ...

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