The Most Important Machine You've Never Heard Of Can Etch Lines 10,000 Times Smaller Than A Hair
etch seems like such an erstwhile - fashioned technique ( for a sentence it was also an Olympic competition ) that you do n’t normally assort it with cutting - bound technology . However , incorporated french-fried potatoes used in all our electronic devices get etched , with convention publish on a silicon wafer . And there is one machine in the world that does that . Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography ( ASML ) is done by Dutch transnational corporationASML Holding , a company that has virtually no competition on the subject of Extreme ultraviolet lithography ....