TSMC Releases Rare Video of Fab 21 Clean Room, EUV Tools

Chipmaker TSMC, which produces cutting-edge chips for the likes of Apple, AMD, and Nvidia (to name a few), took viewers inside its Arizona fabrication plant in a new video. If you haven't seen the video, it's worth your next few minutes, and if you've already seen it, you know it's worth watching again. Getting a chance to check out the clean room and its whirring robots—and see how the digital sausage gets made—is an unusual opportunity.

The video takes you down the "silver highway," in which pods carrying wafers zip from one place to the next. They run along the ceiling on tracks, then move down into the machines below.

"We have about 700 unified pods that carry the wafers," says Jared Allen, AMHS Engineer at TSMC Arizona.

Less than a minute into the video, the wafers make an appearance, and you can see ...