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Re:ASML Buys Stake in Carl Zeiss Unit for $1.1B by Freestyler_3 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:26PM (#12869406)
Heh, someone has to make the machine that makes a lot of machines.

Though, their future is unsure. How much longer will the chips change and be worth changing?

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Re:ASML Buys Stake in Carl Zeiss Unit for $1.1B by the8472 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:36PM (#12869447)
Take a look at a human brain. Or a bird's brain (they're more densely packed). CPUs are still far from those performance characteristics and their power envelopes.

So there's still room for innovation.

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