WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Jun 15, 2022

The Billion Dollar Machine: First Time Right.

Building next-generation microchips requires precision so extreme that physical prototyping is impossible. Discover how engineers use Python and digital twins to simulate billion-dollar machines at the atomic level.

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Building digital twins for lithography machine simulation

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