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Finfet was also really hard , and took something like a decade(or more) from research to production with decent yield. And EUV based lithography(printing finer
by minthd 11y ago
Finfet was also really hard , and took something like a decade(or more) from research to production with decent yield.
And EUV based lithography(printing finer circuits using xrays), which intel recently bought 10-20 machines of, also took a very long time.
So without a doubt, making chips is becoming much harder.
- ipsum2 11y agoDo you know who they bought the EUV machines from? I didn't know EUVs are producing high enough yields yet to be used for commercial applications.
- minthd 11y agoThey bought it from ASML. Yield wasn't the problem, throughput was - and many experts lost hope on EUV - so this purchase is quite good news.