{"id":166283,"date":"2023-06-23T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-chip-patterning-machines-that-will-shape-computings-next-act"},"modified":"2023-06-23T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:23:47","slug":"the-chip-patterning-machines-that-will-shape-computings-next-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-chip-patterning-machines-that-will-shape-computings-next-act","title":{"rendered":"The chip patterning machines that will shape computing\u2019s next act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-chip-patterning-machines-that-will-shape-computings-next-act.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first lithography tools were fairly simple, but the technologies that produce today\u2019s chips are among humankind\u2019s most complex inventions.<\/p>\n<p>When we talk about computing these days, we tend to talk about software and the engineers who write it. But we wouldn\u2019t be anywhere without the hardware and the physical sciences that have enabled it to be created\u2014disciplines like optics, materials science, and mechanical engineering. It\u2019s thanks to advances in these areas that we can fabricate the chips on which all the 1<\/p>\n<p>Semiconductor lithography, the manufacturing process responsible for producing computer\u2026 More.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first lithography tools were fairly simple, but the technologies that produce today\u2019s chips are among humankind\u2019s most complex inventions. When we talk about computing these days, we tend to talk about software and the engineers who write it. But we wouldn\u2019t be anywhere without the hardware and the physical sciences that have enabled it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}