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Investing in this giant companies instead of providing funding to spur new ones is just dumb
by sorry_outta_gas 4y ago
Investing in this giant companies instead of providing funding to spur new ones is just dumb
- elihu 4y agoBuilding a fab is very expensive. It's unlikely for some small new entrant to be successful, unless they happen to invent something better than EUV lithography or can somehow build all their machines from scratch. Basically at this point, the big players are TSMC, Intel, and maybe Samsung. No one else can afford what it costs to be constantly upgrading their factories and doing the necessary basic research to get high quality and consistent yields.