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I thought the smarts were required to do the material science, chip design, and factory automation involved in fabs. Once this is done, it’s just clean room an

I thought the smarts were required to do the material science, chip design, and factory automation involved in fabs. Once this is done, it’s just clean room and careful repetition. Overly bright people are potentially damaging for manufacturing as they might get bored thinking big thoughts. And how many chip designers are actually needed? Cost of workers, cost of manufacturing, regulatory and governmental overhead…. These influence fans more than smarts.

jleyank 4y ago
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JonChesterfield 4y ago
From the outside, chip design looks a lot like writing software. So that's loosely equivalent to asking how many software engineers are actually needed. Credible chance regulation and overhead influence software more than intellect does. I'd certainly believe that as a premise.