7mo ago

Computer Chip Manufacturer Cancels LEGO Model Orders, Ruins Christmas

www.vice.com /en/article/asml-cancels-lego-chip-manufacturing-machine-for-non-employees/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23487957

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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.
- 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
  
  Really?
- I used to bullseye womprats back home and they're not much bigger than 8mm.
- 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:
  Marine diesel
  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.
- I don't bite clowns. It's Lego.
  
  How many bottles of Kragl do you own, President Business?
- 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 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.
  
  I don't care if it's a system. I grew up in the 1980s. If you have more than one, it's Legos and the little people are Lego Men. Even the women. They're Lady Lego Men.
  Also, they are all supposed to have blank smiley faces. It all went downhill when they stopped having blank smiley faces.
They should have partnered with BlueBrixx. Or COBI if they want a complete european production.

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