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35 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 18 Sep 2025

This stuff if fascinating! One of my favorite books read these last few years was Chip War.

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Yeah I never thought about how many variables the local environment would change

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Anyone got a summary of the 30m video?

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she goes though all the things that go into making a fab including ultra clean water as well as other environmental and cultural complications that drive the profitability of the fab

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so is it over? what's the breakthrough? hard to tell from a clickbait title like that if it's worth watching...

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the breakthrough was they have hit yield similar to the other fabs on the 4mm process so they are dialed in and are now scaling even more

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I knew that about the complications of running a fab, but is she optimistic or pessimistic about US's semiconductor manufacturing capability?

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I think optimistic but i was only like 3/4 of the way through it when i left for work

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yeah that's what i'm most interested in, coz I heard that TSM had trouble getting US based plants up and running because of all these issues.

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