The hard part of semiconductor manufacturing is all about the emergent complexity of many systems put together all at once. Any one tool can be isolated and dea

The hard part of semiconductor manufacturing is all about the emergent complexity of many systems put together all at once. Any one tool can be isolated and dealt with by a finite team in a finite period of time. It's when you combine all of the tools and facilities together that you get this beast that has incomprehensible levels of complexity. Some people like to say that everything is harder in game development, but I'd say that it's even more so in semiconductor systems engineering. Tracing problems through every layer of the factory is like playing Elden Ring without a monitor. All you get is a guy in Korea who speaks very bad English to describe the scene for you. I can guarantee there is nowhere you will find more cursed problems. Imagine enduring a root cause analysis that winds up attributing a yield issue to fertilizer being spread on a field 20 miles away.