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Cool, the more options the better. I almost uniformly support diversity: companies are better with many different types of people (and more fun to work at), di
by mark_l_watson 5y ago
Cool, the more options the better.
I almost uniformly support diversity: companies are better with many different types of people (and more fun to work at), different CPUs and other components with differing designs and supply chains, every country having their own culture and local economies, avoiding social media and connect directly via email and texts, less power in a few huge corporations, etc.
re: Chromebook's: I always have one for casual web surfing especially when clicking links on places like Reddit that might take me to a infectious part of the web using a mislabelled URI.
- nly 5y agoBut will they all be fabbed by TSMC?
- mark_l_watson 5y agotrue! I would like to see more independent fabs in the USA and Europe, but not sure when that can happen.
- beckman466 5y agowhat's are the most prominent bottlenecks with lithography?
- wtallis 5y agoASML's monopoly on EUV tools, and their high cost, long lead times and low number of units shipped per year are probably the most significant limitation for leading-edge logic fabrication nodes. But even once you have one or two NXE:3400 tools, you still need at least a few years of R&D before you can get to commercially viable manufacturing of sub-7nm chips. (For example, TSMC developed their own pellicles for EUV rather than relying on ASML for that component.)
- lillecarl 5y agoI think it's just kinda impossible to start one, it's prohibitively expensive to get the factories and equipments running, and there aren't enough people with the know-how of building and operating these things in the world. Not sure if I understood your question, but I hope so
- swiley 5y agoI doubt this will be the helpful kind of diversity.
- beckman466 5y agoyeah i was hoping to see more skepticism