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The thing that shocked me the most is that it's economically viable. The tolerances are so tight, the machines so expensive, the volumes so big, that the math
by froindt 8y ago
The thing that shocked me the most is that it's economically viable. The tolerances are so tight, the machines so expensive, the volumes so big, that the math works. If I had no idea what semiconductors were and you just sat me down and started explaining things, it'd seem like magic that it would even be physically possible, much less economically...but somehow it is.
- avs733 8y agoIt is the most bullshit sounding industry ever to an outsider. You make things smaller than the wavelength of light, out of sand, to turn on and off trillions of times a second, to do math, to make all the world's information instantly available on a metal and plastic block I keep in my pocket? No, thats not real, that's a silly science fiction novel.