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Lucas and Luna sit down at a lab bench cluttered with oscilloscopes and prototype boards to talk about the engineering decisions that shape the chips powering modern life. Each episode takes one piece of hardware — a new RISC-V core, a GaN power amplifier, a MEMS accelerometer — and examines its design trade-offs, yield challenges, and market positioning. They discuss why Intel’s 20A node matters for foundry customers, how TSMC’s CoWoS packaging affects AI accelerator supply, and what the CHIPS Act subsidies mean for domestic fab construction. Lucas brings the component-level knowledge (threshold voltages, die sizes, lithography steps); Luna pushes on the system-level implications (thermal constraints, software compatibility, supply chain risk). The listener is someone who reads datasheets for fun, follows EDA tool announcements, or needs to decide between an FPGA and an ASIC for their next product. No hot takes on Apple’s latest chip — just a careful look at what the die shot reveals and whether the architecture will trickle down to mid-range devices. Can a country really onshore advanced semiconductor manufacturing in a decade? How do you test a chip with billions of transistors? And what does the shift to chiplets mean for the engineer designing a PCB today?
Unknown Host hosts The Hardware Podcast with Fexingo: Chips, Devices, and Electronics Engineering Conversations, a general show with 5 episodes published.
Every chip generates heat, but the material that moves that heat from the silicon to the heatsink rarely gets attention. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into thermal interface materials — the paste, pads, and liquid
Every chip design starts with a single high-stakes choice: which instruction set architecture to build on. This episode of The Hardware Podcast with Fexingo walks through why that decision shapes everything from performa
Lucas and Luna dig into the quiet crisis brewing inside every advanced chip: the interconnect bottleneck. As transistors shrink toward the atomic scale, the tiny wires that carry data between them are becoming the domina
In this episode of The Hardware Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the unsung hero of chip manufacturing: the microscopic probe card that tests every single chip before it leaves the factory. They dive into how
Chip supply chains are staggeringly complex, but one overlooked vulnerability—the single-source dependency for specialty chemicals—can halt global production. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a 2021 Texas free
Lucas and Luna crack open the most underappreciated piece of silicon infrastructure: the electronic design automation (EDA) software that lets engineers build chips with billions of transistors. They trace the history fr
In this episode of The Hardware Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden abstraction layer that makes modern chip design possible at mind-boggling complexity: register-transfer level, or RTL. They explain how hardware
In this episode of The Hardware Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the critical yet often overlooked challenge of chip manufacturing yield—the percentage of functional chips that come off a wafer. They dive into the economi
In this episode of The Hardware Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the single most important metric in semiconductor manufacturing: yield. They use TSMC's N3 process as a concrete example, exploring how even a 1 percent y
Episode 24 of The Hardware Podcast digs into the unsung workhorse of semiconductor manufacturing: the automated material handling system. Lucas and Luna explore how ASML, TSMC, and Samsung rely on these overhead monorail
Heat is the silent enemy of every electronic device. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the critical challenge of thermal management in modern chip design. They focus on a specific case: how Apple's implementation o
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the tiny transistor that acts as the fundamental building block of every modern chip. They trace its evolution from a simple on/off switch to the nanoscale marvels inside today's p
Every new chip design hits a bottleneck before it ever reaches a fab: the humble photomask. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack why advanced lithography masks now cost millions of dollars, how a single defect can scra
In this episode of The Hardware Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the chip design process itself. They focus on a specific breakthrough: Google's use of reinforcement learning to
Lucas and Luna explore the emerging field of silicon photonics, which uses light instead of electricity to move data inside data centers. They explain why electrical interconnects are hitting a wall as chip speeds increa
Episode 18 of The Hardware Podcast explores gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors — the material quietly replacing silicon in chargers, data centers, and electric vehicles. Lucas and Luna unpack why GaN switches fas
Episode 17 of The Hardware Podcast dives into the unsung hero of semiconductor advancement: material science. Lucas and Luna explore how the industry is moving beyond silicon, focusing on high-NA EUV lithography and the
When we think about chip design, we usually think about circuit schematics, logic gates, and cutting-edge lithography. But there's a less glamorous skill that determines whether a chip actually works: floorplanning. In t
ASML's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines are the most complex manufacturing tools ever built, each costing over $350 million with the precision of a laser bouncing off a million mirrors to etch features smaller th
Episode 14 of The Hardware Podcast explores the unsung hero inside every electronic device: the multilayer ceramic capacitor, or MLCC. Lucas and Luna break down why these tiny components are essential for power stability
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