Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation
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- ChipTycoon is a theme park-like chip factory where a cart carries a silicon wafer through 20 buildings that transform sand into a computer chip.
- Chip manufacturing is a printing process involving stacking about 60 layers, but the ride simplifies it to four laps around six buildings.
- Each stop has an explanation with a timer, and after all stops are seen, the ride speeds up; the first pass takes about eight minutes.
- Users can pause, skip, or adjust speed, and the ride uses real stages like crystal growth, etching, and packaging, with scaled-down numbers.
- The simulation is purely graphical using canvas polygons with no build steps, dependencies, or network calls.