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Even a fabless semiconductor company (e.g. nVidia, Apple, heck, AMD) needs to spend hundreds of millions to tape out a leading-edge IC. It's a capital-intensive
by mng2 7y ago
Even a fabless semiconductor company (e.g. nVidia, Apple, heck, AMD) needs to spend hundreds of millions to tape out a leading-edge IC. It's a capital-intensive business, and would present quite a risky bet for any upstart competitors. Also, patents.
https://semiengineering.com/big-trouble-at-3nm/ https://semiengineering.com/big-trouble-at-3nm/