The Hardware Podcast with Fexingo: Chips, Devices, and Electronics Engineering Conversations

Episode 4 of The Hardware Podcast digs into the hidden hardware that keeps the global internet running: subsea fiber-optic cables. Lucas and Luna examine the recent damage to a critical cable in the Red Sea, the economics of cable repair, and why a single ship—the Dependable—handles most Atlantic repairs. They explore how hyperscalers like Google are now building their own private cables and what...

In Episode 3 of The Hardware Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the unsung hero of chipmaking: the photomask. While headlines obsess over EUV lithography machines, the photomask—the master template that patterns every transistor—is quietly becoming a bottleneck as chip designs grow more complex. Lucas explains how masks are made using electron-beam lithography, why defects are catastrophic, and the...

In this episode of The Hardware Podcast, Lucas and Luna tackle the semiconductor industry's most pressing challenge: the end of Moore's Law. They explore why transistor scaling has hit a physics wall at the 3-nanometer node, how TSMC and Intel are navigating this transition, and what comes next—from advanced packaging to new materials like graphene and silicon photonics. Lucas explains the concept...

In the premiere episode of The Hardware Podcast, Lucas and Luna dissect Intel's troubled 10-nanometer journey—a process node that arrived three years late and cost the company an estimated $40 billion in market value and lost business. They trace how a single architectural decision (cobalt interconnects) cascaded into years of delays, handed AMD its biggest opening since 2006, and forced Intel to...