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#lithography

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The ZX Spectrum was launched 1983 as #Timex Sinclair 2068 computer on the US market. With a #Z80A CPU running on 3.5 MHz this beautiful #homecomputer was capable to draw electric images on a regular telly. With a resolution of 256×192 #pixels even limited to 15 colours it was great for the budget.
https://youtu.be/iemMlbIY1SI

Print'n'Plotter sold their #graphics software under the same product name #Paintbox like #Quantel, but for #Sinclair #homecomputers. While #colourClash was a serious limitation in the 80s, it's a #8bit #cgi #glitch effect today available in smartphone camera apps.

Our #vector #graphic #illustration of this legendary #retrocomputer is a form of #digital #lithography. #IT's made in #svg tech and created with #Inkscape, not #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai

American lab is developing a BAT laser that could enable 'beyond EUV' lithography
#LLNL evaluating Big Aperture Thulium (BAT) laser technology to enhance #EUV efficiency by 10x compared to current industry-standard CO2 lasers. This advancement could pave way for a new generation of 'beyond EUV' #lithography systems that produce chips quicker and with less power. Unlike CO2 lasers that operate at a wavelength of about 10 microns, this system operates at around 2 microns.
tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Tom's Hardware · American lab is developing a BAT laser that could enable 'beyond EUV' lithography, provide 10X power efficiency boostBy Anton Shilov

#NewYork State to get new $825 million #semiconductor R&D facility
The U.S. Department of Commerce says that the Albany, New York site will focus on extreme ultraviolet (#EUV) #lithography — technology for manufacturing the most advanced nodes required for the next generation of chips and processors.
tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Tom's Hardware · New York State to get new $825 million semiconductor R&D facilityBy Jowi Morales

Ed Sheeran has dozens of tattoos, some to commemorate career highlights, one because a radio station wanted him to get one on air, one because Saoirse Ronan deliberately misspelled the song title "Galway Girl" in a music video, and many that have no rationale whatsoever (a Heinz ketchup label... the word "PRINCE" written in the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" font). Jill Mapes, a writer for Hearing Things, has found herself completely fascinated by the recreation of "Mother and Child," a lithograph by Henri Matisse that Sheeran has on his left forearm. The original is Matisse's take on a Virgin Mary/Jesus picture. The Sheeran version is somewhat saucier. Mapes writes about how her fixation on the tattoo led her to examine Matisse's most interesting period of work.

flip.it/i0AEpa

Hearing Things · Ed Sheeran’s Perplexing Matisse Tattoo Has Taken Over My LifeThe singer’s unintentionally sexual ink has resided in my dirty mind rent-free for more than a decade.

#Microchips are getting so small that the wavelength of photons is impacting the #lithography. To fix this #Intel is using ultraviolet light which has a very small wavelength. But here's the crazy part; to get that UV light; they have to drop a tiny glob of molten tin into a chamber and then hit it with powerful lasers which makes it explode in a ball of plasma which generates the UV light

I know Intel is going through a rough spot, but I can't help but simp for this