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My thought as well. The tolerances are so small that any scratch or dent on a part involved with the lithography means an entirely new part is the only option.
by BobbyJo 5y ago
My thought as well. The tolerances are so small that any scratch or dent on a part involved with the lithography means an entirely new part is the only option. Most of the equipment would likely be unusable and unrepairable with a couple well placed kicks.
- rdl 5y agoThere's unusable for production (easy; just deleting software or configs would do that for a while!). There's "unusable for extracting information to re-create the tech" which is a bit harder.