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bilsbietoday at 3:46 PM3 repliesview on HN

How come we don’t make chips with really small 3d printers?


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dehrmanntoday at 4:36 PM

Sibling has a good comment about silicon. Another reason you're printing something like 100B transistors. So that's at least 100B raster steps. It would just take too long.

tbrownawtoday at 4:41 PM

The closest thing there is is e-beam lithography. It isn't really practical.

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wmftoday at 4:10 PM

AFAIK you can't really print crystalline silicon so they have to start with a wafer and dope/etch into it to form transistors.