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How far does a $762 million deal get you? Doesn't seem like such a huge sum for priority access to next gen 2nm machines, but also hard to judge as a layperson.

• lucubratory 3y ago
  Just based on some price familiarity with previous generations and extrapolating forward, that does seem like a contract for one machine with a gold-plated service contract or two machines with a good service contract. It seems to me more like a pilot program, but Samsung is a very significant player in semi so idk... I'm not familiar enough with this industry. It could just be because it's very early in the generation.
• Culonavirus 3y ago
  > How far does a $762 million deal get you? Oh, you know, a billion here, a billion there, who counts anymore, right? (The other posters already aswered this one, seems like two top of the line machines?) Anyways... the numbers being invested at the top of this game are completely nuts. The future like in Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't seem that crazy! It begins with Metaverses, Neuralinks, LLMs, hundreds of billions of spending in the hardware/silicon business (boosted by AI demand) and ends in, well play Cyberpunk. They may even get the year right.
• DeathArrow 3y ago
  I like how users talk about hundreds of millions or billions like it's just small change for them.
• fennecbutt 3y ago
  Lmao that's only like the price of 2 of the new high NA EUV machines. I believe they're slated to be 350-400M€ ea.