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https://youtu.be/-EhDlXx3okU?t=203 https://youtu.be/-EhDlXx3okU?t=203 No, that's not how it works. Dialing in a process is extremely difficult, expensive, and

https://youtu.be/-EhDlXx3okU?t=203 https://youtu.be/-EhDlXx3okU?t=203 No, that's not how it works. Dialing in a process is extremely difficult, expensive, and iterative, and a fab has to do a lot of dialing in to make a billion chips per year that each have a billion transistors which will do a billion calculations per second for a billion seconds with zero errors. Give or take a few orders of magnitude here or there. It's a long tail that has to be chopped off -- so long that the number of players capable of chopping it off has gone from three digits to 3.

panarky 4y ago
> It's a long tail that has to be chopped off Those ASML litho machines are astoundingly complex, with more parts and a more complex supply chain than a Boeing or Airbus commercial airliner. So many parts that each part and subassembly must have an outrageously long mean time between failure, something like 16 years, in order for the entire machine to be sufficiently reliable. No wonder only one company is able to make them.