Computer Chip Manufacturer Cancels LEGO Model Orders, Ruins Christmas
Computer Chip Manufacturer Cancels LEGO Model Orders, Ruins Christmas
ASML delighted LEGO fans when it began selling a LEGO model of its computer chip manufacturing machine, then canceled the orders.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23487957
It prints super-fine details on chips down to an 8mm size. In non-computer lingo, that’s seriously small and seriously impressive.
Either people are easily impressed and I should be charging for my Sharpie services, or they got their units muddled up.
I used to bullseye womprats back home and they're not much bigger than 8mm.
It's probably meant to be 8 nm
Yes.
The TWINSCAN EXE 5000 has a resolution of 8 nanometers.
https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems/twinscan-exe-5000
Yeah my printer at home prints smaller than 8mm lol
We are.
I saw this mentioned somewhere on Lemmy and it must have been the first LEGO set that genuinely piqued my interest since I was a literal child.
If they offered models for cool industrial machines, I’m sure they’d find a dedicated audience.
There are some alternate brick companies making this kind of thing:
Probably a few bits and pieces on rebrickable too.
Let me know what specific industrial machine you'd be interested in, and I can take a crack at a design. No promises though.
I'm sure they already exist, but there's probably a big audience for fanuc robot arms.
Intel ordered 100,000 units and said we'll make it work
What is this referencing?
ASML shouldn't have focused on Legos* in the first place. They clearly should have been making ASMR videos. ASML ASMR. It's just so obvious.
*Bite me, they're Legos.
As a LEGO System bricks enjoyer, I also call them legos. When I need to blow my nose and the box is too far away, I ask someone to pass the kleenexes. If I have a headache, I ask for some asprins. I still watch movies on videotapes, and I own a few thermoses. I can't wait to google some more genericized trademarks on Duck Duck Go after I finish typing this.
I don't bite clowns. It's Lego.
How many bottles of Kragl do you own, President Business?
-I pick up a pail of water from the river- "Look at all the rivers I have!"
-I pick up three intel CPUs- "I have several Intels."
-I hold up a radio- "This bad boy can play so many Mariah Careys!"
-I open a box of chicken fingers- "Do you want some chickens?"
-A single bolt falls out of my pocket- "Oops, I dropped a car! Where did that come from?"
-I pull out my phone and look up where that type of bolt is used- "Perhaps the internets can tell me where this goes. Maybe if I read some reddits or watch some youtubes I'll know.
-After looking a while, I put away my phone- "It doesn't look like an engine, so it can't be that important. I'm just going to go home and play nintendos. I hope I don't slip on the snows!"
Bite my asses, LEGO is a system.