Always Be Curious #238: Computational lithography, chips on steroids, and how IBM automated the fab

This week in ABC: ASML releases a fresh animation about computational lithography, TSMC is building chips on steroids, and the story of how IBM was the first to automate a semiconductor fab

It’s ironic. Sometimes we only learn about a life when it is publicized in death. I learned about Michael Hawley a while ago. And before I read this New York Times article, I had never really heard of him. But Hawley was a true Renaissance man. He lived a prolific, creative and downright amazing life. Get this: he was an intern at Bell Labs, a professor…