Chips
Chips are the semiconductor circuits at the heart of modern electronics. Explore their design and manufacture, the equipment and materials they require, and the global supply chains behind processors, memory and specialised computing.
22 films · Newest film first.

Semiconductor Packaging: The Hidden Bottleneck
· 17 min

ARM: From Phones to Data Centers
· 16 min

Storage Squeeze 2026: Why Both SSDs and Hard Drives Got Expensive
· 20 min

Chip War: Can Export Controls Actually Stop China?
· 21 min

Silicon Photonics: Why AI Chips Need Light
· 21 min

RISC-V: Can an Open Chip Standard Change Computing?
· 24 min

Chiplets: Why Processors Are Being Built in Pieces
· 25 min

Broadcom: The Quiet Giant Behind AI's Custom Chips
· 17 min

China's Legacy Chip Flood: A Price War Nobody Else Wanted
· 22 min

ASML: The One Machine China Can't Buy
· 23 min

The Memory Shortage: Why RAM Prices Doubled
· 18 min

Intel, a Timeline
· 29 min

CPU, Nanometres and How Chips Are Actually Made
· 26 min

Nvidia a Timeline From Graphics Cards to AI
· 10 min

AMD a Timeline
· 29 min

IBM NorthPole — Inference on a 12nm Chip
· 20 min

TSMC The Company Every Chip Depends On
· 15 min

Apple 2nm: TSMC N2 and A20 Pro
· 2 min

Apple 2nm A20 TSMC N2 master
· 21 min

Nvidia and "4nm" — Blackwell, Rubin and the Node That Isn't
· 22 min

Apple Silicon: How A20 and M6 Compare With Five Generations of Chips
· 25 min

The Chip War Why the World Depends on Taiwan
· 13 min