Chip making is not a relatively-well documented software project with a bunch of people with knowledge available to get in the labour market Chip making is a b

Chip making is not a relatively-well documented software project with a bunch of people with knowledge available to get in the labour market Chip making is a bunch of very very very specialized equipment, a lot of real black magic, and a few people who actually know what they're doing. This makes it worth more to find existing, experienced manufacturers and try to get them to make more, than to reinvent a very complex wheel, with so much research involved, that the chip crises may be over, before the first devices reach production