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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by kasperni on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:26AM (#24130875)
> you would realize there is nothing as complex as that system anywhere else in the discipline of engineering.

I've heard people say the same about the ITER reactor being assembled.

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by Panoramix on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:17PM (#24137092)
It depends on how you want to compare them. You could look at it from a funding perspective. The total cost of ITER through 2013-2025 is expected to be 20-65 billion.

Samsung just revealed they are investing 50 billion to build an EUV foundry. This is on top of all the knowledge and assets they already have. It does not include the R&D to get to the point where you can just buy EUV machines, etchers, atomic layer deposition, etc.

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by bob1029 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @01:52PM (#24134766)
As far as I am aware, ITER has no aspects of construction or operation which require manufacturing tolerances measured in nanometers.
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by coreblocks on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:11AM (#24144146)
Except for their computers :)
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