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Re:EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors... by jjeaff on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:30AM (#25611301)
If ASML is the only company that can do what they do and anyone else would need decades to catch up, how are they not the most profitable company in the world?

All of the world's most profitable companies depend dearly on chips. If they are literally the only company that can provide this critical part of the chip production, why aren't they taking a larger portion of the profit?

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Re:EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors... by roenxi on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:21AM (#25611452)
At some point their customers will stop worrying about using 7nm and go back to double-digit nanometres. CPU tech from the 2000s is adequate for most workloads, let alone stuff from 2010.

I'm sure there is a lot of stuff where 7nm is necessary to get certain outcomes, but it is a small market compared to what could be reasonably done with older process technologies.

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