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Could any of them build at scale? Honest question. IBM has had 1nm transistors and etched their logo by manipulating individual atoms for years. And yet, if yo
by tambourine_man 4y ago
Could any of them build at scale? Honest question. IBM has had 1nm transistors and etched their logo by manipulating individual atoms for years.
And yet, if you want the best chips by the thousand/millions you run to TSMC
- causi 4y agoDefine scale. Microdrives were quite common at the time. I used one with a PCMCIA reader before the first iPod and a couple years later I had an MP3 player and a PDA with one. I recall being giddy at the fact I could keep a text copy of wikipedia in my pocket.
- foobiekr 4y agoThe IBM drive was commonly sold with early DSLRs like the Canon 10D. It was very common and routine. I am even aware of some products in the embedded space that used it.
- scarface74 4y agoApple couldn’t build at scale either and didn’t have to for the first couple of years. It took two years to sell the first million.