How can ultra-small lithography like the TSMC 3nm be produced?

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Like… I can’t even imagine something this small. How can you produce a transistor smaller than 10nm, especially billions of them all working flawlessly?

I understand that CPUs have cores disabled due to manufacturing defects but… even so we’re talking about what feels like a mind-boggling level of precision.

How is it done?

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I had an engineer explain but basically very very good lenses and materials that react to light or electrons that essentially make a very small layer of material on a wafer.

Also there is a significant error rate.

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