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Welcome to the Semiuseum

A world-class museum rising on a six-acre campus at WOWSemi HQ, Coimbatore. Tour the campus, open up the machines and peel a chip apart — before you ever step inside.

Under construction · opening with our Phase-1 rollout
The One-Glance Story

Sand to Smartphone

Every exhibit in the museum sits somewhere on this one line. Walk it here — then walk it for real.

Plan Your Route

Six Halls,
One Wafer's Journey

The museum floor follows the life of a wafer — each hall holds the real machines of one chapter. Tap a hall to preview what's inside.

ENTRY VISITOR WALKWAY · FOLLOW THE WAFER → 1 Origins Hall QUARTZ · INGOTS · CRYSTAL PULLER 2 Wafer Works SLICING · POLISHING · 100→300MM 3 The Litho Vault STEPPERS · MASKS · UV RESIST 6 Future Wing AI · EV POWER · QUANTUM 5 ATMP Pavilion DICE · BOND · MOLD · TEST 4 Process Row ETCH · DEPOSITION · CMP CUTAWAYS WOWSEMI HQ · FLOOR PLAN (CONCEPT)
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Origins Hall

Hold the beginning of every chip — raw quartz, metallurgical silicon and a gleaming single-crystal ingot.

Equipment Explorer

Open Up the Machines

In the museum, these tools stand life-size with their panels off. Here, explore the cutaways — tap the numbered hotspots to learn what each part does.

Selected part

The Invisible World

How Small Is Small?

The museum's favourite moment: realising a transistor is to a hair what a coin is to a city. Slide down the scale.

Human hair
80,000 nm
Our reference — everything below is measured against this.
Layered Chip

Peel a Chip Apart

The museum's exploded-chip sculpture, in your browser — strip away five layers from armor to atoms.

WOWSEMI
Then vs Now

Fifty Years,
Side by Side

The museum pairs a 1970s-era aligner with a model of today's EUV giants — the same job, separated by a million-fold leap.

Circa 1975 · The Pioneer

Contact Mask Aligner

  • Printed features around 5 micrometres
  • Mask pressed directly onto the wafer
  • Operator aligned each wafer by eye and hand
  • A few dozen wafers on a good day
Today · The Giant

EUV Lithography Scanner

  • Prints features 1,000× finer — a few nanometres
  • 13.5nm light bounced off atomically flat mirrors
  • Robotic stages align within nanometres, automatically
  • Patterns 180+ wafers every hour, around the clock
Plan Your Visit

The Real Thing Is Being Built

The Semiuseum is under construction at WOWSemi HQ, Coimbatore — opening with our Phase-1 rollout. Until the doors open, the Museum-on-Wheels shelf inside our Mobile Lab brings a taste of it to your town, and school groups can register early interest for opening-season visits.