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Precisely. A billion ways to get things wrong, and if you get it wrong it doesn't work. And the info to get it to work is unlikely to be in the patents. You hav
by m0zg 5y ago
Precisely. A billion ways to get things wrong, and if you get it wrong it doesn't work. And the info to get it to work is unlikely to be in the patents. You have to have folks who worked with this stuff before, which is difficult, but doable.
And as far as "innovating" in this field, we're almost at the end of the run - there are, as far as I'm aware, no processes planned beyond 3nm, and even 3nm is astonomically complex and expensive.